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Mommy Blogging The trend of Blogger Breakups continues with Jason Avant, daddy blogger, announcing on his blog Friday that he and his wife of 12 years had separated: I had only just started telling people about my separation, a few close friends, my parents. Instead, I just held up my throbbing left hand. He saw what wasn’t on it. “Oh, Crap, mate. Yeah?” I nodded. “Yeah.” Jason and Beth join the ranks of several bloggers, including Dooce and Mom-101, whose relationships are ending this year.
Fashion Blogging Lifestyle Blogging Mommy Blogging “Bloggers Anonymous“, eyerolls ahoy, is “a new site dedicated to building up other people”. Basically you anonymously submit other bloggers along with a blurb about how omgamazeballs they are. With so much negativity online and offline, why not have a space to celebrate each other? “Bloggers Anonymous” is meant for exactly that. A place to build each other up against the critics that want to bring us down. You know what, this is great! What the blog world really needs is more opportunities for bloggers to rub each others’ tummies. They just do not get enough rainbow enemas in their insular, positivity only, tyrannically moderated world. Seriously, is this site necessary? I’m pretty sure 97% of the internet is dedicated to happy unicorn blogger hugcircling crap. (The other 3% is GOMI.) They already have almost everything other than fawning commentary and I-got-ya-backness blocked from comment sections. They have glitter farting, hooray-for-us conferences. They hashtag twitter with positive ‘movements’ until it looks like Stuart Smalley on ecstasy. Do we really need an entire site to provide yet more validation for these people? Because if so, that’s a really depressing statement about bloggers.
Four months after announcing her impending divorce and a few weeks after moving to a new home, Dooce has begun to tease the internets into guessing who her new male friend is. As she was leaving NYC after a trip for work, she posted a pic of four boots stating: (more…) Maggie Mason, apparently mighty, has declared that the “Go Mighty team” will donate money to the Red Cross in the wake of the Boston Marthon bombings…but only if you use their hashtag: The team at Go Mighty talked yesterday and decided that we’d like to ask our community to do 500 small good things. We hope you’ll join us in making time to do something simple and generous. When you do, please let us know by tagging your posts on Go Mighty, Instagram, or Twitter with #MightyKind. When we get to 500 acts, we’ll donate $500 to the American Red Cross in honor of the victims of the Boston bombings. You know, donating $500 is very nice of them. And going on twitter, saying “I donated, I encourage you to help as well”, and posting a link to the Red Cross would have been a wonderful way to use their wide reach to drum up donations. But something about saying hey, IF you promote one of our #MightyWhatever hashtags THEN we will donate just seems a bit…crass. Seriously, is it just impossible for bloggers to do anything anymore without pimping their brand? “Mommy Style“, a tumblr about some mom’s outfits and pics of her kids, wants people on tumblr to stop using tumblr for its primary purpose: MommyStyle Rules re: Reblogging Poopo, Tumblr friends!!! I absolutely LOVE that you all read my blog and that so many of you like the pictures I post of my kidlets. I think they’re pretty cute and it’s nice to know that you agree!!! However, please DO NOT REBLOG photos of my children without asking for my express permission first. I understand that there are certain risks we all take as blogging parents, but it would be nice if we could all respect each other and follow each others’ rules. Thanks!!! xo She then added in her about me sidebar: NOTE: PHOTOS AND VIDEOS OF MY CHILDREN ARE PRIVATE WORKS. PLEASE DO NOT RE-BLOG OR COPY WITHOUT MY EXPRESS CONSENT!!! Yes, folks – publicly posted photos on a platform specifically built on a foundation of reblogging and sharing are “private works” and you are not allowed to reblog or share them without her permission. Because they are private works. Sure, why not. Nate, apparently the soon-to-be-ex of Mom-101, has recently been posting all the feels he is having about their breakup on his blog “The Farewell Transmissions“. Yes, a public blog. On the internet. In public. As the husband of a long-time, pretty popular blogger, it seems odd that Nate would post something like this: Hey! Everyone reading my blog and then tattle-taleing to Liz about it… Go yourselves. Seriously. Eat a dick. Sincerely Yours, Nate You know…I would have more sympathy for his claim that he “never asked to be brought into the public forum of the mommy blogging world” if he didn’t have his own public blog chronicling how many times he cried the other day, or detailing his insights into what percentage of blame he feels he does or does not deserve during his break-up with a mommy blogger. Has he never met a mommy blogger? Did he really think he could have a public blog on the internet with his name on it, talk about his break-up with one of their own, and they wouldn’t tell her all about it? Liz Gumbinner, of “Mom-101”, is the latest mommy blogger to announce she has now become a single mom: Nate hasn’t lived with us for the past month. It’s strange to fall into habits like sleeping on only two pillows when you can have all four. It’s more strange to lie in bed alone, feeling far less lonely than I did a month ago with someone in the next room over. I’ll take that as a positive sign of more beginnings than endings. Seriously…with so many bloggers getting divorced over the last year I’m beginning to think internet reality shows suffer the same curse as tv reality shows.
Dadcentric Separates From Wife
“Bloggers Anonymous” Is The Latest Blogger Circle Jerk
Dooce Mommy Blogging
Dooce Posts About A Man, Internets Goes “Who?”
Mighty Girl Will Hashtag Tragedy
“Mommy Style” Forbids You From Reblogging Her Kids On Tumblr
Mom-101’s Husband Will Publicly Post Stuff But Doesn’t Want You Telling His Future Ex-Wife
“Mom -101” Joins The Single Mom Blog Club