There has been a lot of stink about female blogger not being included in an interview called Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogging. I guess I am confused. I think everyone would be happy the blogging is becoming more popularized. But to me it is becoming like a 4th grade argument on who is better the boys or the girls. I try so hard to teach my kids there is good and bad in everyone. Blue, black white, green, purple, male, female, cows, horses or cats. And then reasonably sane people are arguing such whether boy or girl bloggers are better or should be included in the interview.
I am probably going to get some arrows shot at me for this statement but I always thought that by the time we were adults that we were but past the girls are better/boys are better crap.
I do post here at Sam's blog and I do have my own but we have agreed that they are two separate things. We have completely different feel to our blogs.
But what do I know. I am a simple SAHM who married a dumb cowboy.
Saturday, March 26. 2005
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I thought it was pretty cool to see that there was going to be a feature on blogs from MT bloggers...and it didn't matter who they were.
Not once did gender ever cross my mind.
I don't see myself as a token representing women; or Montana women; or women of Greek, Irish and English ancestry; or women who "don't work outside the home"; or women who used to work on Wall Street but now work in real manure; or women who don't have children; or women who used to ride the subway who now ride the range; or women who blog about cemeteries, silly stories, cows, dogs, cats, eBay, history, and postcards. I'm just me - Karen - and I have a voice like every other blogger out there.
I have no computer knowledge - and don't pretend to. I ask questions of other bloggers and they've always been willing to help. I've learned from blogs & bloggers. I've learned by trying - and doing. In every aspect of my life.
Blogs are a medium - anyone can blog about anything they want. Someone recently emailed me "there are only a handful of blogs worth reading". To me - that's like saying there are only a handful of books worth reading. There are bookcases in every room of our house except the bathroom. There are books, papers, magazines and more papers covering every surface in the place.
*Better*?
Some are polished, some are rough. Some are eloquent, some scream. Some are professional, some are amateur. No different from all of us...
Whatever a person's interests are - they can find a blog about it - or start one. Like Bonnie says, "if you don't like it - you don't have to read it".
And yes, I was flattered to be included - whatever the motivation.
No offense taken. Like I've said before,- "it takes a lot to offend me, but not much to amuse me"...
And I've already threatened to send a guy in my stead. I mean who really knows who I am? Well okay, Bonnie does...
I hope that everyone has a good time on the air....I am confident that Karen will.
Everybody always says that it is so we show diversity but it always seems to me that we are sowing the seeds of dissension in what was a happy community because somebody started yelling they weren't "fairly" represented. This isn't bringing us together as people, it drives us further apart and highlights the differences among us instead of looking for common ground.
Mike
Mike
We've come a long way, baby, but we've still got a long way to go.
I doubt the issue of either including or not including a female blogger ever came into the discussion. For some it seems less about the "notion of equality" and more about the issue of promoting the culture of victimhood. Get over it! The argument is tired, pathetic at it's core, and foul by nature. Perhaps it would be better if the program was just enjoyed, and note of thanks was sent to YPR at it's conclusion.
Mike
Mike
Mike
Never mind. I have better things to do than try to help people see when they refuse to take their blinders off. I won't disturb your happy little community any more.
I agree, you can't see past your blinders to what I am saying Patia. I feel for you.
If everybody felt like I did it would be a "happy little community" since I believe everyone is equal. Men, women, black, white, red, yellow, purple, whatever. I look at the person, not their gender or skin color or anything else. I look for the good in everybody ands find it. Sometimes it's hard, but it's there. Anybody that knows me would tell you this is a fact and this is the way my kids are being raised too.