At first I was pissed at this blog. You did seem, when you first started, to be unecessarily mean. But, recently, you have backed off a tad, and you know what? I'm starting to enjoy your postings (no to the second pair of shoes by the way - waym way to soccer mom heading to the library) and I laugh about the softwood lumber posts) I don't get mean bloggers. I'm a blogger and many many people - including you - have made fun of what I do. I just don't get why the meaness. And some of the mommy bloggers you were really mean to are very sweet people, who do help other bloggers going through a tough time. They do. Can't you disagree without being a devil child about it? Or is the world really filled with such hateful people (including, some, but definitely not all) of your commentators. I'm still on the fence with your blog. I can understand why you're doing it and I can appreciate. But do good with it not evil. Perhaps I will out myself but for now I'll be Not Really Annie, until I'm, 100 per cent sure, I like you...or even 75 percent sure.
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Rejecting the Koolaid
Tearfree recived an e-mail that the following post was made on her blog, but she can't find it anywhere so she's reprinting it for the edification of her readers:
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I work with Tearfree and despite everything I can attest to the fact that she is a good person.
You must not try to cast her in the role of "the other" or you will be succumbing to an interpretively inverse orientalism.
Resist the urge to "otherize" a sister Mummy Blogger, even one like Tearfree, who is in deep denial about who her true allies are.
This is very Jack Bauer!
I don't know any of those fancy big words you're using but i don,t understand why it's ok to make fun of softwood lumber if it's not ok to make fun of Mummy Bloggers.
I WISH I worked with tearfree, as I would very much appreciate a Collective for Common Sense movement.
PS What is orientalism? I've never heard of it, nor - if I were to guess at its meaning - does it make sense in that context.
Thanks for edifying me, yo.
'TEAM TEARFREE"
TEAM TEARFREE!!!!!!!!!!!
Orientalism, yikes!!! Big book by Edward Said. Every normal person I know who has read it can not for the life of them understand how it became so influential in academia. Completely lacking in common sense.
Everything you need to get you started:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Said
Bernard Lewis' criticisms are concise and interesting.
Ms. Tearfree,
We ask you to cease and desist talking about our shoes and to reign in your libelous commenters.
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