The sexism that is Ta-Nehisi

Uhm, yeah. So I just found out one of my favorite bloggers--Hilzoy over at Obsidian Wings--is a woman. Not that there's anything wrong with it...Of course as someone's who's often referred to as a "she," I should have known.

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this has me so blown right now.

everything i say will only dig me deeper into my androcentric hole.

but um. who knew?

Posted by G.D. | May 31, 2008 7:31 PM

It's OK; everyone seems to assume that at first, which is, I guess, interesting in itself. Once, someone called me "he" and then went on in the next sentence to ask: Where are all the women bloggers? *That* was funny.

Fwiw: 'hilzoy' comes from a reply I got from Ted Kennedy, back when he was my Senator and handwriting recognition was really primitive. I got a letter addressed to "Mr. Hilzoy Bole", which is inaccurate in every respect. My sister and brother and I thought this was very funny, and had fun making up a whole backstory for Mr. Hilzoy Bole, and then they started calling me Hilzoy. Hahahaha. Mercifully, they stopped after a while.

But when I first started commenting on blogs, and I wasn't at all sure I wanted to comment under my real name, I thought: hmm, what's a name that no one else will have used, and that all and only people who know me well will recognize?

Thus, hilzoy.

Also, you're one of my favorite bloggers too. ;)

Posted by hilzoy | May 31, 2008 7:44 PM

Now that you've confronted your sexism, surely it's time to make redress by backing Clinton?

/snark

Posted by Warren Terra | June 1, 2008 12:50 AM

Correct me if I'm not correctly employing the vernacular, but wouldn't a stronger sense of contrition been conveyed if you had entitled your post "Teh sexism that is Teh-Nehisi"?

Posted by matt | June 1, 2008 2:23 AM

Yes but do you REJECT and DENOUNCE pronouns altogether, Ta-Nehisi?

/snarkity

Hilzoy is also one of my favorite bloggers.

Posted by Breukelyne | June 2, 2008 10:50 AM

Trinity: My name's Trinity.
Neo: *The* Trinity? Who cracked the IRS d-base?
Trinity: That was a long time ago.
Neo: Jesus...
Trinity: What?
Neo: I just thought... you were a guy.
Trinity: Most guys do.

Posted by The Craig | June 3, 2008 10:26 AM