dig it~!

dig it~!

Digby's writing surpassed the gender distinction from the outset of her blog.

Digby is one of the few must-read blogs on the intertubes. As good as she is, it's surprising that she kept her anonymity for so long. When you see so many hacks employed by the MSM (see R. Cohen's latest today in the WaPo), it's a shame that there isn't even one voice that has half the passion, eloquence, and clear-sightedness of Digby.

If the left had an ounce of the strategic instincts of the GOP, they would have given Digby a soapbox as tall as the Sears Tower long ago.

A couple of years ago, I started saying that Digby's the new Dylan. I'm not sure why I stopped saying it, because it's so obviously true. Whose writing these days, other than Digby's, carries the same clarity, passion, and intensity we remember from "Hard Rain" or "Like a Rolling Stone"?

I'm among the many who assumed for the past few years that Digby is a man, but I've been wrong before. I'm just glad we've got her extraordinary voice in our movement.

I, like a lot of other people I suppose also thought digby was a man, (especially us men) but Bob Somerby once referred to her as a she instead of a he, and that got me to thinking about it, and I purposely read every one of digby's posts thereafter trying to determine if digby was male or female and could never really tell. Such is the brilliance of digby. I have never missed one of her posts since I discovered her blog in 2003. She's the absolute best.

I'm sad that she'll be coming out from behind the pseudonym. But then I'm a Thomas Pynchon fan. The words can be more powerful if you're not distracted by the figure of the author.

I really don't want to know if digby is a man or a woman. i think the uncertainity was part of how seriously his/her words were taken. i doubt very much that a blogger already identified as female, or strongly identified as female, would ever have been allowed to earn the respect of his/her commenters the way digby has. The troll swarming and generally dismissive tone of most blog commenters towards female bloggers just would have made it impossible.

In the end, I personally hope digby doesn't come out one way or the other.

aimai

was i the last person to think digby a man?

love digby. best on race.

digby, please call eric alterman out. he is becoming increasingly comfortable expressing his racism against black americans. said obama talks "street" on bloggingheads. yes, he did. & what about his metaphor describing c. powell in hs latest american prospect piece. something about conservatives treating him like an affirmative action case in a harvard seminar ... maybe all the a. prospect writers found that metaphor useful.

"It has been suggested that Digby is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Digby's writing. I don't think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the Digby stories is male."