Mommyblogger & Feminist Unite

I recently came across an article in the Metro, "Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper", about the blogging conference for women held in San Jose in July. After the success of the event, BlogHer was created as a way to connect to different women and search blogs by interest or topic. Their conference brought many different types of women, which no doubt led to conflict, and not so civil discussions. One woman, Sherri wanted to add her two cents about mommybloggers, "I've spent one evening in San Jose...near a handful of obnoxious 'mommybloggers' and I already want to rip their fucking ovaries out. I don't want to hear about how many times a day your retarded kid poops or stabs itself in the eye with its own foot. I don't want to hear about how it was extracted from your smelly, overstretched vagina." Wow Sherri, tell us how you really feel.


The feminists at the conference slam the stay-at-home moms for abandoning their career to be with their children. While, the moms argue that the whole point of feminism was for the right to make a choice. Yet, in another room, women who love to blog about sex get together. Even here, the women differ drastically. Young women who like to talk about their sexual escapades, and wives who question how much of their sex lives should be disclosed can find commonality in what they want to talk about. Despite all of these women's different ideas, values, and interests, they all came to generate more opportunities to get their blogs out there. Only 12% of the top blogs are written by women. (Technorati) The women at the conference hope to change this. They hope by getting together to find common communities in the blogosphere, they can create a more prominent place for women blogs. If you want to get involved in some of these conversations, you should check it out at BlogHer, just try to keep comments like Sherri's to a minimum.