Complex

I think I see the problem here. Or the problem I perceive to exist after reading all these blogs written by women in academia. Now I'll feely admit I am but a minnow nibbling on the algae of academia. There is no tenure track in my future. I am not a doctor of anything, even though I never bother to correct all the students who address me as Professor. I don't write for publication. I don't present at conferences. No faculty senate or steering committees for me. I hate all that shit and the pretentiousness that goes with it. I help my students acquire a skill. We don't scale the dizzying heights (or more accurately, plumb the insufferable depths) of intellectualism in the liberal arts. *big wanking hand motion*
Anyway, the complex mentioned in the title here is not my bottom of the totem pole academic career status. It's that I know I don't get anywhere near the traffic and attention that the other academic attention whores get. And you know why? Because I don't swear enough on this blog. I need to write a lot more using words like "bitch", "whore" and "slut". And my sex life. If I chronicled that in more detail, that'd bring 'em in. I suppose it's not just the academic chicks. Pretty much any popular blog written by a woman that I've ever read has lots of swearing, lots of sex and lots of blatant psychological problems. Now, my real life has plenty of those things, but I must just be too old school (or just... old!?!?! *shudders* ) to write about that kind of thing in public. So, I guess I'm doomed to my quiet little blog that gets lots of hits about the "year of the rooster" lately, but isn't a big, sexy, attention-mongering beast. Oh well.