I finally found out what the mommyblogger controversy is all about. This year's, anyway. There was one at last year's BlogHer conference, too, but I can't help you with that one.
Here are the basics:
- A female blogger wrote a vitriolic post about mommybloggers on her personal blog the night before Blogher started;
- The Blogher community got wind of it and branded her a hate-monger;
- She, in turn, invited people to review her archives to see that she is unapologetically opinionated and regularly blogs about things she hates;
- Some have confronted and admonished her to make it clear that bigotry is unacceptable;
- Others say it would be better to ignore her and thus deny her a forum.
Grace Davis weighs in on the hold-her-accountable side in her stink bomb post. It's a good read. I have yet to come across anyone who has weighed in on the just-ignore-her side, but then that makes sense, doesn't it?
I am all for ignoring her and letting her self-express to her heart's content on her personal blog. Isn't that what personal blogs are for? But I am also a realist. People love a good controversy. No matter how many ignore her, there will always be the lookey-loos. If you're one of them, choose your team and go buy the uniform. I'll be up here in the stands with my popcorn.
