Comments on: You May Write for the NYT, but You’re a Mom Blogger Too

By: Dünyadan blog haberleri at CinChin

Dünyadan blog haberleri at CinChin — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:16:42 +0000

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By: Petit Elefant

Petit Elefant — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:00:33 +0000

It’s the selling your sister down the river point I’m having the biggest problem with at this point. I mean, really? Who’s got your back if not your fellow co-workers/bloggers/moms/friends/women?

Thank you for writing this.

By: Barchbo

Barchbo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:36:16 +0000

I am not a mom. I am not a blogger.

When I read the article, I thought: Ibet she doesn’t have very many female friends. Because if you have healthy female relationships, you can portray female relationships (even enmeshed or dysfunctional ones) in a healthy way. I just thought she didn’t really “get it” about women in general – forget blogging or being a mom.

As for big and small: Big are the ones I like. Small are the ones I don’t. You’re big to me, Mammaloves! Always!

By: Dagmar Bleasdale

Dagmar Bleasdale — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:52:13 +0000

I keep wondering what the writer was thinking. Did she not realize how her article came across? She is a fellow blogger (I hadn’t heard of her before, though), so why write about moms who blog in such a condescending way?

I just posted my response to the article, and I would love to hear your view on it Thanks for your post. My child benefits from my blogging as well.

Best,
Dagmar
Dagmar’s momsense

By: DiPaola Momma (Lara)

DiPaola Momma (Lara) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:11:14 +0000

Really… I mean REALLY! Go to Blog World Expo, attended a cocktail party and it’s a business trip where you are “networking”. Go to an all women conference on the same topics and your facilitator is a “sorority leader” and you’re “sipping mimosas” (which I’m especially offended by because I was there and didn’t get one of those suckers, dam!) outside your mini-van. Use the term “comment tribe” and you’re “girlie” but if you “build your tribe” you’re a freaking genius MAN. Gah.. enough already this SMALL blogger needs help!

By: Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah

Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:52:57 +0000

There is the catch. Who is a “big blogger”? Who is a “Small blogger”? What kind of notoriety are people after? Do the “smaller bloggers” just want name recognition, do they want 15,000 unique pageviews a day, or do they want Intel to sponsor their trip to Greece?

And how would a bigger blogger help them get it?

Are they saying that Dooce owes them a link or the Bloggess should get them a job? Or do they just want to pick the brain of someone who has gained a lesser level of blogging success?

This could be a million different things. I never know where a person falls on the big/small blogger scale, but I know that I try to help people that have questions just because I’ve been doing this for five years. Does that mean I owe somebody something? Or I owe everybody that starts a blog something? Impossible.

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By: Loralee

Loralee — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:54:48 +0000

Oy.

And Oy.

You said so many things here perfectly.

Me love you long time.

P.S. That “big” “small” terminology of mine has not gone over well. I regret not finding a better way to phrase it for discussion. Oy.

By: Rock and Roll Mama

Rock and Roll Mama — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:30:18 +0000

Amie-
You’ve never, ever been small in my book. You’ve always been one of my beltway girls, whom I knew shared a wonky strain with my own. And I love you for it. And respect all the many roles you carry more than you know.

We all have finite energy. Given the eight hours a day you spend doing incredible, policy changing work, could you apply those same skills to getting your blog to “rock star jetsetter blog”? Or whatever one would call it.

Of course you could. I have no doubt you can do anything you set your mind to, you brilliant girl. But where your juice is going moves the needle for the greater good. Not the corporate coffer. And I thank you for it, though I also understand feelings of wanting your words and ideas validated through wider recognition. We all want that, and I’m not sure we ever fully have it.

But please know what a light you are in this space. I’m so glad to know you, and that we had that time to chillax in Houston.

By: the Grumbles

the Grumbles — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:04:24 +0000

Great post! I thought about weighing in on Loralee’s original post but there was so much commentary going on it seemed futile. I don’t think we (bloggers) owe each other anything, especially just because we are women, but I do think we should be obligated not to tear each other down. If you don’t agree with somebody you don’t have to read them. You don’t need to go around writing snide articles about it for the NY Times to make yourself part of the elite. -But don’t worry, she’s not a “mommyblogger” because she writes for a fancy *newspaper*. Big difference. She actually gets paid to write.