Comments on: Questions that I know will probably piss people off. But I’m asking anyway.

By: Flea

Flea — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 06:12:21 +0000

Am I a mommy-blogger? Or am I seamstress blogger? Or a ceramic cow blogger? Or a crappy blogger? Hmm. The world may never know.

By: Hattie

Hattie — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:30:37 +0000

Bloggers tend to get cubbyholed. I have been resisting the label, “elderblogger,” but I notice more and more that the people who read my blog are older women. And I notice more and more people read only the blogs in their particular “genre.” I think that’s a mistake. I enjoy some of the great blogs of younger women.
I am under orders not to blog about my children or grandchildren. And actually, I think that works well for us.
The cute pix and so on go to Facebook, where only friends can see them. This spares us all a lot of embarrassment.
Remember: Anything you put on the Internet is there forever!

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:56:23 +0000

Eh, I go by adjunctmom. I think it’s like when people call me Ben’s mom. Um, hello, I have a name. I’m my own person. I don’t know if I object to the mommy blogger label, mostly because I don’t know if anyone would ever call me that. I’m all over the map and I really don’t care what people call me. Well, except Ben’s mom to my face, because if you’re looking at me, you can ask my name .

By: Deanie

Deanie — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:59:56 +0000

I totally agree with you. It’s nothing bad with being a mommy. And those bloggers mostly talk about their kids(don’t get me wrong, I love to read about parenting and stuff, I just L.O.V.E. it), so, there’s nothing wrong with that.

By: Mrs. Apron

Mrs. Apron — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:37:25 +0000

I think being labeled as a “mommy blogger” is similar to summing up your whole identity on your vanity license plate as “JIMS MOM”, which I have seen. Though I am not yet a mother, I will be approaching motherhood careful not to lose my own 27 years of identity as a daughter, wife, friend, artist, weirdo, musician, crafter, etc. Those who are insulted by being called “mommy bloggers” are probably upset at having their whole identity (or blog’s identity) wrapped up in that one aspect of their lives.

By: Joy @ Mommys Joy

Joy @ Mommys Joy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:10:44 +0000

I’m a mommy that blogs. If that makes me a Mommy Blogger then so be it. Actually I think that’s a badge of honor that I get to wear sometimes as I chase my 16 month old from one corner of the Earth (kitchen) to the other (living room) twenty thousand times a day. OK, so I’m exaggerating a little. Just like I feel the other Mommy Bloggers in the world are. If it’s not one thing its another to be controversial about. I personally don’t have time for it all. I have barely enough time to write about being a mommy on my own blog let alone worry about some tag line that might point out that I’m a, shhhh, don’t tell anyone, a mommy.

By: TheQueen

TheQueen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:18:44 +0000

I don’t think anyone wants their blog to be reduced to just one topic. Would you want someone to read your blog recently and decide you were a zit-blogger? No. Am I a cripple-blogger? No.

I am a bitchy-wife-blogger.

By: sharlene

sharlene — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:26:43 +0000

I am here. Listening to you.

By: Lanny

Lanny — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:37:17 +0000

You’re safe calling me a mommy blogger.

By: akinoluna - a female Marine

akinoluna - a female Marine — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:51:55 +0000

I think for some of them, it’s not “cool” anymore like it used to be. Maybe now there’s so many mainstream mommy-bloggers that they don’t want to be one of the crowd so they try to reject that label…