kontextmaschine:

when I was young I wrote off a response to a Phyllis Schlafly essay syndicated in my local newspaper and never got a reply

it was a shock and then a lesson that she could do that, one it’s good I got before the internet

I wrote into the newspaper and got printed a few times but in retrospect I was angling my words towards it, I guess that was the point but it feels unvirtuous

this was when the modern text form was the “FAQ” but the form was already developed enough that the Qs weren’t A’d let alone F but a Socratic (“dudebro”) dialogue

reminder “not caring” about your interlocutors doesn’t look like snarky responses about how you don’t care, it means not acknowledging them for years so new people don’t even know they’re there