As faithful readers will have noticed Tearfree got a little beat up in her comments section yesterday. First Randy told her she was in danger of being rembered “as another talentless hack.” Then Simon said: “As much as you make fun of the "Koolaid Mommies" for whining and complaining about you, you seem to dish it right back with equal high-school-like hate. The back-and-forth is extremely trite… this blog is now as boring as your nemesis' musings.” Why, even Ryan got down and dirty and compared Tearfree to William Hung.
Well geez guys, talk about speaking truth to power or to Tearfree on the very same day she's just been to the dentist.
But, here's the thing: How come we haven’t seen any of you dissing the Koolaid Mummy Bloggers and livening up their comments sections like you feel so free to do here at Tearfree’s blog?
Could it be that you are scared of the Koolaid Mummies’ Chloe-like threats to use CTU-like powers, fuse the forces of Google Earth and Site Metre, and track you down?
Randy, Simon and Ryan, it's time for you to accept the Tearfree challenge and get up on to the blogging stage. Pick a Mummy Blogger (any of the ones who have commented here will do), enter her comments section and try saying to her some of the things you said to Tearfree.
Then join us back here with your fully functioning links -- if you can still tap out a signal on your keyboards.
You go, guys!!!!
4 comments:
Okay, honestly: I was both Randy and Paula yesterday. I have no idea who Simon and Ryan were, but I commend them for keeping the theme going.
I would gladly attack any of the so-called Kool-Aid Mommas if I felt they deserved the brunt of my viciousness. All in all, I don't see anything harmful in what they do. They're just keeping blogs and writing about their lives and maybe, in a virtual sense, giving each other the occasional reach around. I see no harm in it. I see nothing to attack. It could be possible to lampoon or satirize them, but there are bigger fish more worthy of such treatment, aren't there?
You, however, took it upon yourself to attack them. Ordinarily, I couldn't give less of a f---, but then yesterday I saw that you had the nerve to call yourself a satrist, or at least revealed your aspirations as such. After a hearty laugh and looking briefly at your eleven days or so of blogging and seeing nothing that resembled satire or parody, I thought I'd, in the parlance of our times, "take you down a peg."
oh, and paula only talks about shoes when the singing sucks.
i think we at this blog have already made reference to the fact that Paula damns with faint praise.
Hmmm. My intention wasn't to be nasty, only truthful. I'm sorry if my comment hurt your feelings; I assumed, maybe incorrectly, that you would take more as constructive criticism. You seem like an intelligent individual who would take into consideration what some readers have to say, especially those who would like to see something interesting and intelligent come of this.
In the same spirit, I took into consideration what you had to say and looked at some of the other blogs to which you referred. While there, I came across a post that pondered why women felt the need to be negative and hurtful to other women in "Blogland". It was slightly tiresome, yes, but some of it rang true. It also made me realize that I do not want to be a part of that cycle. There is a way to disagree, to opine, to "lampoon and satirize," as Randy/Paula stated, without being angry or vitriolic. That would be something worth reading.
That said, after examination of aforementioned "Koolaid Mommy" blogs, I really have no desire to even read them. They don't hold my interest. I have commented on Ms. Eckler's site before but ceased in doing so, and then stopped visiting completely because I realized that the drivel wasn't getting better, comments fell upon deaf ears and reading it was a waste of my time. As I stated before, when I came across this site, I thought something may become of it. However, the so-called satire never really materialized, only the inane, "You're stupid." "No, YOU'RE STUPID" back-and-forth. And to want me and fellow commenters to go onto the "rival" sites and "stir it up" over there would only perpetuate the silliness. You don't seem like a silly woman, Tearfree. Rise above.
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