You know, off the 2000s bloggers I followed, a lot have become names
the political bloggers ascended the establishment ranks; the feminist bloggers looked like they were going to be their own but were really used as cover by careerist harpies while becoming personally irrelevant; IOZ (Jacob Bacharach) and Gin and Tacos (Ed Burmilia) found places for themselves; Freddie de Boer, Sady Doyle, and Rod Dreher are Important in their spheres; Matt Yglesias waned a bit once he got done passing on everything he learned at Harvard but the new “redpilled” version is finally enforcing a return to the 90s sun-dappled clearing, discourse-wise (boosted that from his old Hollywood dad he knows how cyclical media politics go and he knows worst case his life will be fine)
The one that’s been kind of overlooked was Twisty Faster at I Blame The Patriarchy, this horse-raising (in retrospect, performatively) bitter 2nd-waver in Texas. Like, through her comments I found Bug Brennan and Twanzphobic, which (accurately) laid out the battle lines of the 2010s TERF wars before they were on anyone else’s radar, but I can’t remember the last time I’ve even heard someone mention Twisty
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