{"id":1222,"date":"2010-03-14T00:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T00:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/what-is-it-about-women-who-blog-that-scares-so-many-people-even-other-women-even-the-new-york-times-once-again-this-tim\/"},"modified":"2014-03-15T20:25:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T20:25:01","slug":"what-is-it-about-women-who-blog-that-scares-so-many-people-even-other-women-even-the-new-york-times-once-again-this-tim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/14\/what-is-it-about-women-who-blog-that-scares-so-many-people-even-other-women-even-the-new-york-times-once-again-this-tim\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Bloggers Are NOT Cute Little Girls: Tell the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BH<\/a><\/p>\n

What is it about women who blog that scares so many people – even other women —
\neven the New York Times? \u00a0Once again this time, they’ve decided to offer an “analysis” or a “portrait” or an I don’t know what<\/a>
\nabout bloggers who are women and moms. \u00a0And when they do, they write with
\na condescending, bemused attitude that is what I remember from the early days
\nof the women’s movement, when men would joke about our desire to open our own
\ndoors, earn our own livings, make our own decisions. \u00a0It was kind of cute
\nto want to be able to get credit cards without a husband’s permission, to cover
\na story without having to go up in the balcony, to keep our names when we got
\nmarried. \u00a0 Feminism was just so adorable.<\/p>\n

Now, we’re free on so many levels, and one manifestation of that freedom is the
\nvibrant world we’ve created online. \u00a0Sisterhoods that cross race and
\npolitics and religion and age as we share ideas and pain, joy and pride, birth
\nand loss and every other story that is part of living a life. \u00a0 There have
\nbeen a couple of wonderful responses to this irritating TIMES piece (and it’s
\nnot the first…) \u00a0One of my own favorites, Mom-101<\/a>,
\nwhose admirers are legion, wrote<\/p>\n

“…once you
\nget past the first half of the article, there’s actually some solid information
\nin there….But I wish [all] that had been to focus of an article about my
\nfavorite blogging community that just made the front page of my favorite
\nsection of my favorite Sunday paper. \u00a0I wish it had opened with the yearning
\nof bloggers for the community to return to good writing, and the evidence that
\nin the end, that’s mostly what pays off…. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Of course, there
\nare more. \u00a0My friend Danielle Wiley, known to many of her friends as Foodmomiac<\/a> but also an executive at Edelman PR, has also weighed in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I invite you to read the full piece and form your own opinions, but sentences like \u201cbringing
\ntogether participants for some real-time girly bonding\u201d might very well stop
\nyou in your tracks. As I write this, my husband (and fellow Edelman executive
\nMichael Wiley) is at SXSW. Would Mendelsohn classify that experience as macho
\nbonding? Or would she write that he is attending a conference for the purposes
\nof education and networking? Why do people, including Ms. Mendlesohn, continue
\nto refer to networking among women as girly bonding? I seriously doubt the
\nparticipants at Bloggy Boot Camp were wearing jammies and braiding each other\u2019s
\nhair. However, from the tenor of the piece, it was pretty easy to jump to that
\nconclusion.<\/p>\n

Here’s the bottom line: \u00a0I’m old enough to be the mother of both of these women
\nand many of their peers yet they have welcomed me as a sister – a blogger and a
\nfriend. \u00a0They’ve honored the sappy posts I’ve written about my sons<\/a>
\nand my marriage<\/a> and they’ve shared ideas and advice in comments, in twitter and even in real life.<\/p>\n

They and their compatriots are talented<\/a>, <\/a>compassionate<\/a>,
\nornery pioneers<\/span><\/a>
\nwho have built what I think of as the new quilting bee, the new Red Tent where they share the wisdom and mysteries that are women’s lives. \u00a0And they do much more – just go check out the list in Liz’s post.<\/a> \u00a0Not for one moment are they
\nsilly or unaware or careless or trivial. \u00a0And to gain a few points with
\nsilly headlines and denigrating phrases isn’t bad taste, it’s also bad
\njournalism. \u00a0Go see for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is it about women who blog that scares so many people – even other women — even the New York Times? \u00a0Once again this time, they’ve decided to offer an “analysis” or a “portrait” or an I don’t know what about bloggers who are women and moms. \u00a0And when they do, they write with … Continue reading Women Bloggers Are NOT Cute Little Girls: Tell the New York Times<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,6,7,51,52,29],"tags":[196,198,202,199,195,194,200,44,197,201],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-culture","category-life","category-webtech","category-weblogs","category-women","tag-bloggers","tag-blogher","tag-mocha-momma","tag-mom-101","tag-mommy-bloggers","tag-new-york-times","tag-punditmom","tag-women-2","tag-women-bloggers","tag-womenandwork"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4gBq8-jI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2422,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiasamuels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}