Real Kato Blog: BlogHer Battle

I guess not everything about BlogHer was beautiful.

There's a little bit of BlogHer controversy brewing, as it turns out.

I knew that despite all the great things that came from the conference, it wasn't all days of wine and roses. I heard the mommy-bloggers getting unfairly dismissed by certain attendees, and I thought maybe that sort of backbiting might be the worst thing we'd see.

But things have really started to boil ever since Ambra Nykol posted this bit of tripe on her site. She questions whether Koan Bremmer was worthy enough to speak at BlogHer, and uses terms like "dysfunction" and "man dressed up as a woman" to put Koan down. The phrase she chose to use was this: "No uterus, no opinion".

I find this ghastly for two reasons. First, one the main points of BlogHer was to fight unfair stereotypes, and avoid marginalizing women by dismissing their blogs using code words (like, say, "bitchy" or "sassy"). So for a BlogHer attendee to turn around and use blatant stereotypes and marginalizing terms herself, on a group "further down in the pecking order" (as Liza Sabater put it), seems really wrong.

Second, one of the main points of Ambra's discussion panel was that we should ELEVATE the level of political discourse in this country. Since when does a personal attack loaded with bigotry qualify as "elevating"?

To contradict the aims of the conference you attended, AND the discussion panel you led, seems sickeningly hypocritical. Maybe it's just me. Oh wait, I'm just a man: I don't get to have an opinion. So go read what some smart women, Grace D and Ronni, had to say about it, and judge for yourself.

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Comment #1 from Nicholas (Guest)
2005 Aug 9 - 1:49 pm : #

Girls can get soooo bitchy.

Joking, only joking.

Comment #2 from Bake Town (Guest)
2005 Aug 9 - 2:29 pm : #

That is awful. That woman obviously has issues.

Comment #3 from MonoCerdo (Guest)
2005 Aug 9 - 2:50 pm : #

Issues, yes. And a bit of confusion about the definition of a transsexual as well.

Comment #4 from Ronni Bennett (Guest)
2005 Aug 9 - 3:53 pm : #

Thanks for link, Kato, but most especially for contributing to the discourse on MommyBloggers and whats-her-name's vile attitude.

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