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My View: Blogging Wars

Published on March 11, 2009 by in My View

If they gave away degrees for different aspects of blogging, I would have quite a few to my name. I may be new here, at Chateau Ferrets, but I have been blogging since 1999, with brief pauses. I’ve been around the block a time or two. I know a few things.

One of those things is blog wars. I find it unbelievable that even now, as adults, some people cannot state their opinion without become mean, nasty and offensive. Instead of attacking the issue and making their opinion heard, they attack the person who’s opinion differs from their own.

And that is productive how??

State your opinion. Support your beliefs. Speak your mind.

But don’t turn on another blogger because you don’t agree with him or her. Don’t toss out nasty names and ridiculous assumptions and accusations.

Yes, a fellow blogger breast fed another woman’s child at a parenting conference. From the backlash, you would think she stole the child away into a rat infested hotel bathroom and locked the stall door while laughing eerily as she force fed the child acid from her recently tattooed breast.

The mother offered! Her child was hungry, the blogger was away from her own child and had forgotten her pump. It was a mutually agreed to situation. It may not be one you agree with or would engage in yourself, but who are you to tell either of them what they should or shouldn’t have done?

Get over it and move on! It happened. Unless it affected you on a personal level and affected your own child, it’s none of your business. To each their own.

And attacking these mothers instead of debating out the issue with intelligence, respect and decency certainly shows who won this blogging war.

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13 Comments  comments 
  • The Mom Jen

    Thanks for saying this, and no matter the topic, I enjoy the saying, "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." Seriously, unless it impacts you directly in a negative matter, just move along, no need to be viscious or hurtful. Why can't we raise everyone up. Life is too short.

  • AmyD

    No good deed goes unpunished, right? ;)

    Salma Hayek did the same thing in Africa or somewhere a few weeks ago. Big deal. I see that as a mother supporting another mother.

    That's what is funny about women, don't you think? We don't have a middle ground, we either support each other to the hilt or rip each other to shreds.

    If only we could learn to use our powers for good.

  • Stephanie

    IMO, would offended mom even been offended if offending mom been a breast milk donor and felt the need to publicize that on her blog?

  • poppycat

    Seriously people, ever heard of a wet nurse? It is a practice that is as old as time and it was the food of life for many a child before the days of fabricated formula. I am angered, saddened and disturbed by the mentality in this culture that has become so popular as of late. Is this really where we want to go as a society?

  • Don’t Lick The Ferrets!

    There isn't a difference. Personally, I would do either one! And I can see how other's would feel differently, it's the MANNER they went about expressing their view.

  • Stephanie

    So, ummm, what's the difference between offering a tit and donating milk?

  • SAIA AND CHAGO

    I wrote about the cyber catfight on our blog, too. It was just really pathetic how it devolved so quickly into something so awful from something that was actually pretty cool.

  • Jaime

    Thankfully, I missed this whole business. Whadda bunch of shit.

    Interesting phrase you've coined: "blogging wars." Even the blogosphere is not exempt from the cruelty that surfaces anytime humans reveal personal beliefs and take actions subject to critique and criticism. It's a sad part of humanity.

  • Tina-cious.com

    To borrow from TLC…

    "Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one."

    People don't know how to stay out of people's business.

    Honestly, it's their own business…

  • Don’t Lick The Ferrets!

    Fidget, she just wants to play with the big kids and this is her chance to shine. The difference is, when this blows over, as we all know it will. She will still be who she is and where she was before it started and the other bloggers will still be more read and appreciated because they will be the same, as well.

  • Bibliomama

    Well, come on, since we've eradicated child poverty, world hunger and climate change, what else do people have to worry about? Oh wait…

  • Eden

    People are insane. How is this anyone's business except the two women involved? Why do I know about this? It's bizarre how much we all know about what everyone else does.

  • fidget

    the original post and whole twitter blow up were just ridiculous and now the pepetraitor is going to "repost" the original post- why? To add more fuel to the fire?

    If she wanted to put it back, why publicize it expect to just flare things all over again? Oh wait, I know, b/c she'll make a killing with Adsense the day it's posted back