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Katie Vyktoriah Gestating A New Content Generator

Katie Vyktoriah, how dare you forget who she is, has apparently milked all the attention she can from her viral post. Clearly needing some new content, she’s now announced she is expecting another bundle of Potential Attention.

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The internet can’t wait to see what cause she will assign to this baby in an effort to get back on HuffPo.


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Hey Natalie Jean Wishes She Could Stop Blogging

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Poor Natalie Jean. Turns out snagging that validating book deal and trying to be a professional blogger isn’t all she thought it would be. It seems her post-rebrand sponsorbombing didn’t go the way she hoped, and Bratalie has now decided to air her bitterness:

last year I signed with an agency thinking it would simplify things, make a clear delineation in my head between “sponsored” and “personal,” but the agency in question fed me a bunch of bull Crap to get me to sign and then later had to release me from my contract because I was trying to be “too choosy.”

Going on to complain that “blogging has hit a gross, weird level”, she claims she wants to shut it down – but cant:

I dream almost daily of turning it all off, but it’s come to the point where i have a book deal and obligations and i just actually, literally can’t. i’m not allowed to.

Despite feeling this way she then attempts to justify making no effort to get out of blogging by saying “I try to make it worth it somehow. convince myself i’m helping pay off loans with the income, or paying for a little vacation here or there”.

While part of me wants to feel sorry for her, the truth is she backed herself into this corner. According to her, she’s been blogging for 8 years. I find it hard to believe she had no idea what she was getting herself into when she signed these contracts. And she seems to have no problem getting c/o clothes and experiences when they are something she wants.

To throw her former agency under the bus because it turned out to be too hard or didn’t go how she anticipated is incredibly unprofessional. She’d better hope this book is a best-seller, because this little pout party just effectively ended her chances of being taken seriously as a professional blogger.



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Serge Will Live Blog A Birth

Serge Bielanko, shampoo avoider, finally has some real content. Today, he and wife Monica will live blog the birth of little Band-Aid Bielanko for history:

The idea of trying to live blog an actual event, something as life-changing and personal and badass as bringing a baby boy into the world in the bedroom or the living room of our own house never actually occurred to me as something even remotely realistic, really.

Until it did.

Evidently the male half of the internet’s most oversharing couple wants us to believe that the idea of live blogging the arrival of their new blog content just “never actually occurred” to him. And if you believe that you’ll probably believe that I never think about Taco Bell during sex. I mean this is the couple that livetweeting their home burning down, so I highly doubt not documenting any possible pageview garnering event simply never entered their minds.

Anyway, it seems the birth may be getting underway with a lovely passive aggressive reference to his lost music career.

Almost 2 in the morning on Sunday. Used to be that 2 in the morning was an every night thing for me, but that seems long ago. These days, not much keeps me up this late.

Good luck to them. Let’s hope nobody dies, though Serge has already made it clear he doesn’t really care about that.


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The Feminist Breeder’s Lawsuit Apparently Over

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In a fantastically anticlimactic post, The Skeptical OB stated yesterday that the legal battle between Dr. Amy and Gina of The Feminist Breeder has now ended:

We’ve settled the lawsuit:

The parties have entered into a settlement agreement which has resolved all claims and controversies to their mutual satisfaction.

The announcement comes after a year of back and forth between the two birth bloggers, which was originally supposed to go to court despite Gina’s attempts to stop the proceedings. There are no details on what the settlement entails, with Dr. Amy confirming in the post’s comments that the terms are confidential.


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That Wife Will Join Single Mom Groups

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Despite being a married SAHM, Jenna Cole apparently considers herself a “single parent” – and a working single parent at that.

Her meetup.com profile shows Jenna, whose online presence is That WIFE, has joined at least two single parent meetup groups. She also lists her “interests” as “Working Moms”, “Single working parents”, and “Single Parent Support Group”.

Did Jenna get a divorce that we’re not aware of? Because I’m pretty sure a married SAHM shouldn’t be going around to working single mom groups looking for support.  Having a husband work out of town 4 days a week is hardly on par with being a single working mom. WTF is she thinking?


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The Feminist Breeder Will Educate Autistic People About Autism

Gina, knows everything about birth and feminism, informed the internet a few days ago that her child has been diagnosed with ASD. Since then she has apparently become an expert on autism and its causes, posting stories she claims show “further proof that high intervention birth practices” are possibly “to blame for some of what we’re seeing”.

As people who actually have ASD began to comment on her proclamations, Gina immediately turned on the Gina and began telling them, in a nutshole, that they have no idea wtf they are talking about, and she won’t be listening to any of it:

I can see that a bunch of y’all seem to have been fighting about this long before I ever came along and aren’t even responding to what *I* have actually said. My mind hasn’t been changed about anything. Now I just know which corner of the Internet to avoid.

As Gina continued to dismiss anyone trying to explain how some ASD people feel about “cures”, one commenter summed up the problem:

That’s the crux of this. That someone who claims to be a feminist is quite willing and quick to dismiss a minority group’s opinion as invalid, or trolling, or irrational, etc. When an oppressed group tells you that you’re being offensive and hurtful, you have an obligation as a human, a feminist, and someone who claims to care about people with autism. An obligation to listen.

Another ASD commenter also attempted to get through with their side of the issue:

What we are saying — over and over again, without anyone listening — is that attempting to “cure” your child DOES NOT MAKE HIS LIFE EASIER. It makes it HARDER. It makes it WORSE. What makes autistic people’s lives easier, better? Acceptance. Education. Equal rights. Which people would know if they would just ask the autistic people right in front of them, and believe our answers.

Eventually The Autism Women’s Network chimed in, basically telling Gina to shut up and stop acting like a 5 day old diagnosis makes her an expert or voice:

The oppression of Autistic people, perpetuated by ideas like those found on The Feminist Breeder’s Facebook Page IS EXACTLY why AWN’s committee, DIVERgent: when disability & feminism collide was created. Please join us at DIVERgent, so we can continue dispelling the myths and stereotypes like the ones found on TFB.

I’m not sure why anyone is bothering to debate with this woman. She has long made it clear that she knows everything about everything, and if you disagree you just don’t know what you’re talking about. They may as well go try to have a discussion with a pile of mud about what it’s like to be a human – at least a pile of mud wouldn’t tell you that they have seen human beings walk by, so they totally know what being human is all about.


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Bower Power Will Selfie In The Shower

Well this is appropriate.

Katie Bower, crack house buyer, can’t seem to get enough of taking weird, possibly inappropriate pictures. This afternoon she took her phone into the shower in order to capture a photo of herself with her baby.

Hashtagging it “#nakedselfie”, Katie says it was “the quietest most perfect moment just made for prayers of gratitude”. Because I know when I’m having a quiet, perfect moment of gratitude in the nude the first thing I do is whip out instagram.

Bloggers really can’t do anything without documenting it, can they?