Comments on: Glass Walls at BlogHer

By: jeneane

jeneane — Sun, 06 May 2007 03:05:07 +0000

BEACH BAGS are on SALE????!!!

By: Zo

Zo — Sat, 05 May 2007 03:16:41 +0000

“But Kathy had a sound personal reason for her obdurate behavior. ”

Half a mo’ …have we an oxymoron on our hands?

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:43:14 +0000

Ken, here is a good post that is just a good post, one blogger's thoughts on her own feminism Meet me in the middle

By: Ken Camp

Ken Camp — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:27:08 +0000

It disturbs me more than just a little that my decision to withdraw from the mars/venus, good/bad, black/white conversations around this are seen as not caring. The truth is that I care, but don’t care to hear the crap so often spouted in the name of goodness, badness, maleness, femaleness. etc. I’m an intolerant bastard and have disengaged from many sources of frustration.

On my employment application, in the field titled Race, I wrote HUMAN. Beyond that, it’s all bullshit.

By: Frank Paynter

Frank Paynter — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:25:21 +0000

Yeah. I found it in my Akismet spam bucket after I got your heads-up. I gave it a get out of jail free card and now it is posted above. Sorry. I have a moderation queue where first time comments land (and that includes comments from people who may have commented before but who change an attribute, like name or email address), and I have the Akismet spam bucket which collects hundreds of things every day. Mostly I don’t go through that list looking for mistakes, but I probably should.

By: madame l.

madame l. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:58:53 +0000

posted my comment here. tried to post it here but it may have had too many links.

By: Tree Shapiro

Tree Shapiro — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:17:57 +0000

i love those glass walls. some of those broads at blogher are Niiiii,ceh!!! beats those elder-handicapable-gamblers down at the penny slots! TFFS. i have to agree with you, elayne, i'm all for women-only spaces. call me a feminist. S-nap! craps game at my casa, this weekend. just got the table re-felted. pool's open and smokin', my friends. marky mark confirmed. ben affleck, a definite maybe. all welcome. we like diversity in the gambling world. thus says dostoievsky and shit. (two semesters at hampshire college;)

By: tish grier

tish grier — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:48:16 +0000

Hi Frank…and thank you for an eloquent post on an extremely delicate and diffcult to talk about topic.

You’re not the only one who doesn’t feel all that welcome at BlogHer. Sure, I comment there from time to time, but I’m not a lock-step feminist (one male friend once described me as a “great broad.”) and not a mommy, so I often question whether or not I fit into their scheme of things. From a strictly marketing perspective– I don’t. It concerns me on the one hand–on the other hand I just think maybe it’s time for some of us to maybe do things a bit differently…

As for the Sierra thing….the more I look at it, the more see some glaring problems with how it all went down. A p/r coup at the expense of others? A way of asserting a Silicon Valley dominance over this ’sphere? I don’t know, and can’t say for sure, but I’m raising my eyebrow again and for different reasons these days….

By: Zo

Zo — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:23:06 +0000

Frank, you really think, after all the evidence to the au contraire, that one single woman is going to get it just on account of your say so? Honey, I got my original Mickey Mouse Cl — er, wait, wrong membership.

No. They going to get it ’cause I say so. (Yeah, right.)

And in closing, I would like to say: Very fine tune, but I have never watched a video before that made me so want to shut my eyes.

By: madame l.

madame l. — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:26:15 +0000

I can hardly blame Eliza Camahort for coming to clarify BlogHer's community guidelines here. As the co-founder and president, events and marketing director at BlogHer, she would be remiss if she didn't. There's money at stake here, Ladies. BlogHer Parenting Network readers spend money online. Perhaps most significantly: # 53% of BlogHer Parenting Network readers have their own blogs with which to publish and amplify their recommendations and referrals. Can you say sharecroppers? As for the hoodwinked, Elayne, I'm glad you enjoy women-only spaces. Someone's just made fascinating post on beach bags at BlogHer. I think they're on sale! And if someone were to dig deeply into the K.Sierra situation they might find that it's a whole lot more complicated than anyone thought. They might find out that a bunch of very important (self described) people were pissed off about stuff being written about them and got K. all worked up into a huge fear state so she would act as their mouthpiece. Maybe. That's one possible scenario. But we'll probably never know, will we? I do know that every time I left an on-topic comment on misbehaving.net (oh, Gosh!, the misbehaving women site seems to be Gornish helfn...) it was deemed inappropriate by the forces that be and erased. Open forum my asslift. Women-only spaces, in my experience, means certain kind of women. Only. Period. Meta-pause. Ain't I a woman?