Comments on: Sisters: The Path to Punditry Isn’t Paved With Baby Powder http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:51:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jenyum http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-86035 Jenyum Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:37:22 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-86035 Eh. Unless you already have a large media organization behind you, you will have an audience of exactly 0,000 readers unless there is a "voice" behind your blog. And for women, that "voice" is one that says "I am like you, I have the same struggles." Women want to read about the lives of other women. In my opinion, this is what makes us better. When you don't pay attention to or demean the importance of the realities of day to day life, you miss big picture things. Things that should find their way into urban design, policy discussions, legislation, and political movements. The personal is political. I don't care how old the phrase is, it's still true. Eh. Unless you already have a large media organization behind you, you will have an audience of exactly 0,000 readers unless there is a “voice” behind your blog. And for women, that “voice” is one that says “I am like you, I have the same struggles.” Women want to read about the lives of other women. In my opinion, this is what makes us better.

When you don’t pay attention to or demean the importance of the realities of day to day life, you miss big picture things. Things that should find their way into urban design, policy discussions, legislation, and political movements. The personal is political. I don’t care how old the phrase is, it’s still true.

]]> By: ddc http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-85092 ddc Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:12:05 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-85092 Let's face it, we perpetuate our negative rep which is why we end up in the Style section. Additionally, men (and other women) look at us like, "uh yeah, mommy bloggers how cute = stuff the movers and shakers of the world need not be concerned with." http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/07/26/teh-laydeez-are-so-cute-when-they-try-to-blog/ has it spot on. Let’s face it, we perpetuate our negative rep which is why we end up in the Style section.

Additionally, men (and other women) look at us like, “uh yeah, mommy bloggers how cute = stuff the movers and shakers of the world need not be concerned with.”

http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/07/26/teh-laydeez-are-so-cute-when-they-try-to-blog/ has it spot on.

]]> By: Lily http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-85004 Lily Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:15:29 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-85004 I think they should do away with the Style section all together. Obviously the very fact that it exists is demeaning to women. I think they should do away with the Style section all together. Obviously the very fact that it exists is demeaning to women.

]]> By: mylai http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-84998 mylai Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:51:46 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-84998 Katherine, Agreed. Unless we start embracing other things women can do and are succeeding in doing, all we'll have at our disposal and more importantly at the disposal of younger generations of women, will be the usual; hoa to look to get a man, being a mommy, the latest recipe for cupcakes and how we can fix our bodies to look like megan fox. It limits what's important about the human being, our BRAINS. Yes, is there a place for the Mommy Bogher? yeah, for mommies. SOme girls have other ideas... http://www.nerdgirls.org/indextv.html http://www.witi.com/center/conferences/2008/siliconvalley/ Katherine,

Agreed.

Unless we start embracing other things women can do and are succeeding in doing, all we’ll have at our disposal and more importantly at the disposal of younger generations of women, will be the usual; hoa to look to get a man, being a mommy, the latest recipe for cupcakes and how we can fix our bodies to look like megan fox. It limits what’s important about the human being, our BRAINS.
Yes, is there a place for the Mommy Bogher? yeah, for mommies. SOme girls have other ideas…

http://www.nerdgirls.org/indextv.html
http://www.witi.com/center/conferences/2008/siliconvalley/

]]> By: Mutant Pacifist http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-84873 Mutant Pacifist Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:06:37 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-84873 Yes, Ladies, keep this in mind: We want you to attend to your appearance, so that you don't resemble the Hideous Harridans of the Left (http://www.singularity2050.com/2006/12/a-picture-is-wo.html). We want you to have children, both to avoid abortions and to save us from the demographic disaster predicted by Mark Steyn. (http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007760) But no matter how much of your time, attention and money it takes you to remain beautiful and bear children, for God's sake, remember. We don't want to hear about it. That would bore us. Yes, Ladies, keep this in mind:

We want you to attend to your appearance, so that you don’t resemble the Hideous Harridans of the Left (http://www.singularity2050.com/2006/12/a-picture-is-wo.html).

We want you to have children, both to avoid abortions and to save us from the demographic disaster predicted by Mark Steyn. (http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007760)

But no matter how much of your time, attention and money it takes you to remain beautiful and bear children, for God’s sake, remember.

We don’t want to hear about it. That would bore us.

]]> By: Erin Kotecki Vest http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-84834 Erin Kotecki Vest Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:22:33 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-84834 As someone who attends all these conferences...cough...I can do my best to connect some dots for you. At BlogHer (had you gone) you would have obviously not missed the panel on open source with 2008 Google-O'Reilly Open Source Award Winner Angela Byron. Or maybe you would have skipped the morning brunch offsite where we met to create a position paper to be submitted to the Democratic National Committee for inclusion in the party platform...seeing as you are Pajamas Media and all. But back at the BlogHer con you might have seen the race and gender session that brought the house down? No? Missed that...ok how about all the political sessions with congresswomen and surrogates and netroots? No? Then you must have seen the Content sessions and monetization sessions and the OTHER open source session, and the fundraising and activism online session and the online photography session ...I could go on. Of course at SXSW I attended a Sex, Intimacy & Online Relationships...one about "Why Sewing and Knitting Still Matter" and "Diaper Diarists" oh and also "Pet Blogging: Not a Fluffy Puppy Story" but hey, you probably didn't hear about them because they weren't in the style section of the NYT. Silly me. As someone who attends all these conferences…cough…I can do my best to connect some dots for you.

At BlogHer (had you gone) you would have obviously not missed the panel on open source with 2008 Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award Winner Angela Byron. Or maybe you would have skipped the morning brunch offsite where we met to create a position paper to be submitted to the Democratic National Committee for inclusion in the party platform…seeing as you are Pajamas Media and all. But back at the BlogHer con you might have seen the race and gender session that brought the house down? No? Missed that…ok how about all the political sessions with congresswomen and surrogates and netroots? No? Then you must have seen the Content sessions and monetization sessions and the OTHER open source session, and the fundraising and activism online session and the online photography session …I could go on.

Of course at SXSW I attended a Sex, Intimacy & Online Relationships…one about “Why Sewing and Knitting Still Matter” and “Diaper Diarists” oh and also “Pet Blogging: Not a Fluffy Puppy Story” but hey, you probably didn’t hear about them because they weren’t in the style section of the NYT.

Silly me.

]]> By: dana http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-84828 dana Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:57:33 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-84828 Wow. Thanks for the link love, however, the picture you've painted about BlogHer is naive in my opinion. Have you ever attended a BlogHer conference? Wow. Thanks for the link love, however, the picture you’ve painted about BlogHer is naive in my opinion. Have you ever attended a BlogHer conference?

]]> By: ddc http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-84445 ddc Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:58:59 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-84445 The very term "Mommy Blogger" screams of don't take me seriously. There is a whole world of female bloggers on techgeeks who want nothing to do with talk of the consistancy of baby poo, their poo or what rehap lohan will go to next. Mommy Blog IS boring. Blogher is losing membership for the same reason many young women found the key speaker/webcelebs to be boring. Lack of intelletual stimulation and substance. grrrr! How do we expect to be taken seriously? The very term “Mommy Blogger” screams of don’t take me seriously. There is a whole world of female bloggers on techgeeks who want nothing to do with talk of the consistancy of baby poo, their poo or what rehap lohan will go to next.

Mommy Blog IS boring. Blogher is losing membership for the same reason many young women found the key speaker/webcelebs to be boring. Lack of intelletual stimulation and substance. grrrr! How do we expect to be taken seriously?

]]> By: Sue http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-83993 Sue Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:47:15 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-83993 History repeats itself endlessly. When I marched for women's rights, I honestly believed that the advancing the needs of women would make a difference in our lives, the lives of our spouses, children and other family members. But, as I have watched the last 40 years go by, the "women" appear not only to have gotten higher on the ladder of success, but a large majority have only achieved more sluttish behavior, lost a good deal of their morals, caused over 40 million abortions and are still more concerned with themselves than ever before! So, Katherine, don't be surprised. Why should females be any different today than they have been for thousands of years? They, after all, still depend on males. If and when that changes, I fear the consequences to humanoids. BTW...what do you define as "top of internet list of women bloggers"? History repeats itself endlessly. When I marched for women’s rights, I honestly believed that the advancing the needs of women would make a difference in our lives, the lives of our spouses, children and other family members. But, as I have watched the last 40 years go by, the “women” appear not only to have gotten higher on the ladder of success, but a large majority have only achieved more sluttish behavior, lost a good deal of their morals, caused over 40 million abortions and are still more concerned with themselves than ever before! So, Katherine, don’t be surprised. Why should females be any different today than they have been for thousands of years? They, after all, still depend on males. If and when that changes, I fear the consequences to humanoids.
BTW…what do you define as “top of internet list of women bloggers”?

]]> By: simone http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/comment-page-1/#comment-83947 simone Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:18:59 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/sisters-the-path-to-punditry-isnt-paved-with-baby-powder/#comment-83947 We have started an online business magazine for female internet heroes. We bring news about women entrepreneurial, executive achievements, about raising capital, deals, launching companies etc. Most of the time this news is on page xxxxx at websites; if you put it all visibly together then it will be clear to 'the world' that women mean business too. We have started an online business magazine for female internet heroes. We bring news about women entrepreneurial, executive achievements, about raising capital, deals, launching companies etc. Most of the time this news is on page xxxxx at websites; if you put it all visibly together then it will be clear to ‘the world’ that women mean business too.

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