Now look here. Politicians get caricatured. There’s a long and glorious tradition of caricaturing politicians. Right? Right.
Therefore, bloggers should get caricatured too. It’s the same thing, after all – being a politician and being a blogger.
Or is it?
No, actually. It’s not. Being a blogger isn’t the same as being a politician.
Frankly it wouldn’t occur to me to caricature a blogger. It wouldn’t occur to me to caricature anyone (even a pol, actually) because it sails way too close to plain old meanness. It would feel awful, for that reason – it would be like pinching a smiling baby or kicking a friendly dog. It makes me flinch just to imagine doing it.
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