Monday, November 1, 2010

Am I writing correctly for my audience?

I just finished up this simple article about considering one's audience and I'm realizing that I may need to do a complete blog redsign/overhall over at Secretariain't. DARN IT! My goal is to reach an American male audience, but it occurs to me that my Beat Blog looks way too "girly" or "angry feministy"...like, the title is a bit in-your-face. And here, I thought it just had "Mad Men" chiqueness. I'm guessing what I really need is some good male feedback about the blog design and about the posts that are already up. But all of this "catering to the audience" in the context of my Beat Blog topic recreates an age-old scenario of the opressed group having to cater to and educating their own opressors in the *hopes* that their message will be taken seriously. This quandry leaves me at an impasse...am I creating my own problematic scenario by insisting on speaking to the group that I believe can tug most effectively at the strings of power? Or maybe I'm worrying too much about things that I ultimately have no control over? At the end of the day, I know I'm dreading another 4 hr redesign. Is it possible to talk about women's issues to a reluctant audience without being pre-emptively dismissed as angry or wrong?


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