[Note: This post is largely notes tossed up. Not exactly live blogging, but observations made on the spot during a panel. I may or may not edit later. It's raw blogging, baby.]
Alice from Finslippy rocked everyone's world at the close of last year's BlogHer when she declared that mommy blogging was a radical act. I agree. I'm sitting in on the Mommy Blogging Panel.
"Taking over the world" is the phrase that keeps coming to mind when I think of them (us).
Why does everybody hate the mommy bloggers?
Many people don't like the term. It seems dismissive and limiting to some (paraphrasing Alice).
If we're mothers and we blog, are we automatically mommy bloggers?
Mindy Roberts. So many people searching for it. Documentation for her kids.
Some embrace the term.
Aack! Somebody (Amy Gahran) mentioned she has a niece who is a single mom. Me! Me! Single moms represent. I said I am compiling a blogroll of single moms for Diary of a Single Mom on the Edge. Mir is a single mom. Are there younger single moms? I'm gonna find them. Hook me up! Who are the single mom bloggers?
Even here at the conference whre we are much more visible than last year there's been some serious dissing of us. Not gonna link to the post, but it showed a distinct lack of class.
Is profanity more loaded on mommy blogs?
Some personal thoughts: I've never thought of myself as a mommy blogger until I started writing Diary of Single Mom on the Edge. I was always a mom who blogged. I didn't want to be labeled or tied down. I still struggle with it. But I love writing about ALL my personal experiences, and the way that I mother is vitally important not only to me, but to the world. Yeah, I'm a fucking mommy blogger. But that's not all I am.