This is one of those things I’ve never really thought about. To me, women my own age have always been “girls.” “Woman,” has always meant someone significantly older than me for some reason. This is probably a bad thing. I’m going to make an effort to stop using that word. Because I’m pretty sure this isn’t just a problem in the tech world.
I’m reporting this thought here, because it was originally on my tumblr, which I use mostly for silly shit. interesting though: I wonder if I really need to continue that division? Do I need a to be on tumblr and have a “serious” blog? My cant tumblr be for serious posts and for image macros? I guess there aren’t actual comments over at tumblr, though.
Use Tumblr for whatever you want — it’s just a tool. I do sympathize with thoughts of dividing up your content (I have a few different blogs myself) but I think it all depends on what you’re comfortable with. One is easier; I tend to neglect whatever one I’m not working on (I’ll rarely write in all at once).
Interesting point about girl vs. woman; I enjoyed that vid.
I just discovered today that on tumblr, while you can selectively post links to entries to Twitter, you can only dump everything to Facebook, which is unfortunate. I think I will stick to having blogs both places for now, with tumblr being for the more frivolous stuff. If I ever do switch to tumblr entirely, I think I will have to have a serious one and a more frivolous one. Tumblr must be getting more popular, because I noticed the other day that WordPress’s quick post screen has some tumblr-like presets now for posting links, quotes and photos.