Thought Vacations

What if I stay very anonymous on this site? What advantages does that bring?

• If I am a man I will not be judged as a man. Any unmanly comments and thoughts go unquestioned or negatively received.
• If I am a woman I will not be judged in this sexist culture and any unconscious bias will not be used
• Freedom from any box I normally have to fit myself in everyday to be normal or fit within my role.
• Non identifiable. This helps freedom of speech or as I like to call it in this case freedom-of-embarrassment-when-I-realise-Jill-from-accounting-read-my-blog.

What disadvantages does it bring?

• I cannot make posts speaking from personal experience on topics such as gender, race & orientation.
• I cannot be wholly authentic and may end up self censoring.
• Most who want to read me will not be sexist, homophobic or racist and can easily withstand my identities. Those who cannot, I do not want to associate with and can go away.

We will see how anon I choose to be. I’m not particularly bothered but I know the road away from anonymity on the internet is a one way road. Everything sticks out here.

A burst of intense daydreaming led me to create this site. I want to offload my dreaming & thinking. Where it can find others and perhaps be productive in someone else’s head.

I struggle with embarrassment when posting publicly. I think this is quite common. I hope to address this and improve. Each post will be a mark of my headspace at that time and there is no need for embarrassment when reading them in the future. I will acknowledge my past and be respectful of it.

To offloading on the internet! And the big fat nobody who will read it.