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Are you going to start a blog for dads? Or just complain about what other people aren't doing?
I already complained about it being sexist. Especially since I was the one who had to stay at home when my son was born.
Dan
Caught ya using the "it" + "is" contraction in place of the genitively marked "it" again. Nice grammar! Maybe you're ready to graduate from The Spanger and go work for Seattle Gay News?
Come on, Dan, quit shitting us. ECB didn't really say that. Even SHE isn't that stupid.
Oh, please. Every blog on earth has punctuation and spelling errors. Blogging and the immediacy it requires makes it impossible to spell check and copy edit everything that gets posted. Ding us for errors in print -- those are embarrassing. But carping about errors on a blog is just makes you look like a douchebag.
She did, 5280. But she was being sarcastic--and the PI, not men, was the target of her sarcasm.
Year, P-I, cut it out!
Writing about your own kid's personal activities for fun and profit, that's Dan's job!
Dear Dina,
As much as I grew tired of Phoebe, I truly hope that you will take advantage of this site to share with us the trials and tribulations of mothering a child with a large goiter on its neck.
They don't have a right to create a blog for women?
I'm wondering what part of that quote says "only women have children". It's a blog by moms. All moms obviously have children, so children are a focus of the blog. If it were a blog specifically about kids, and they didn't accomodate dads, you might have a point.
You should just kindly suggest that they create a "dad" blog if you're really that bitter about it.
Yes, Mr. Hollihan, I knew that; I was being sarcastic too.
Here's what The Stranger needs to do next:
CLAWG, the blog for the people who do detournement on all the "Stop for me, it's the law" signs in Seattle.
If you really wanna be inclusive...
Not to get drawn into a silly discussion, but those P-I blogs are done by readers, not P-I writers. My impression is that you pretty much just have to send in a "I wanna rite a blog about ..." e-mail and you're in.
Maybe it's "only women think that the quality of their childcare is improved or affected by blogging"?
Children's artwork rated by a "professional":
No, it's that only lazy stay-at-home-moms have the time to sit around and fritter away time on blogs. I mean, who are these people who waste all their time reading and commenting on blogs, anyway? Don't they have something more productive to do with their time?
Oh, look at one of the articles posted.
Do dads really need support groups?
I guess it's all about how it's easier for guys because they don't care. I was going to say it was easier because guys don't get a period, but Dan obviously has his.
And I don't know, maybe it can, Fnarf. I mean, Slog never improved the quality of my life, but it has, on rare occasions, made me think, and that's not a bad thing. Ialso spend a lot of time on various knife, gun and LE boards, and surprisingly learn new things all the time. So I guess I'm thinking that it may do some good, and certainly does no harm, so WTF?
Fnarf might be making a joke but it's probably not far from the truth.
Maybe women really do think blogging makes them better mothers.
I know of a blogspot site that has a list of 2,000 women and their blogs. At least a 1,999 are women who blog about their children.
Maybe women think they are better moms by exposing their children's faces, names and which school they go to on the internet for any weirdo to see.
The only reason for Dads to show any interest in their children at all is to get their wives to put out more.
According to a desperate, batty, and misspelled February 11 e-mail [...] "In [Gregoire's] political world its [sic] all about ideas. There is something that transcends ideas. A Biblical worldview."
Hey Dan! Is carping about a misplaced apostrophe in an email the same or different than carping about it on a blog?
For sure, only douchebags proofread every blog entry for errors, but if you proofread emails the same way, are you only like a semi-douche? A douchette, as it were?
Well, I don't know; since you seem to have the market on douchebaggery cornered, why don't you explain it to us?
No, no it's just that only mom's care about their children's artwork.
That's why it always ends up magneted to the refrigerator door instead of taped to the wide-screen.
@22
The explanation is that everybody, even you, has better things to do than act smart because somebody, even your enemy, mixed up its and it's.
I can explain further if you like. I'm helpful like that.
@19 - Too true! Too true!
At least by calling it MOMSeattle, they're saving me the trouble of wasting any time reading it, even though I'm a soon to be a mom.
The best part about the blog announcement was that it was right above the article about how dads are much more involved with their kids now than ever before, and that if they help out with the housework the wife puts out more. Coincidence? I dunno...
The only reason for Dads to show any interest in their children at all is to avoid household chores and sex with their wives.
Oh, hey. I found a clue:
In a few weeks we're launching DadSeattle -- all things dad! We're going to cross link a lot between the two. We're looking for people who want to write blogs and columns for DadSeattle, so please write to me if you're interested. You can reach me at michellenicolosi@seattlepi.com
My main plan was to ask Big Sven whenever I didn't know what to do with our kid, but I guess I could check out the PI's thing too.
The relevant truth can be found in the one-man play: "Defending the Caveman." It is a laugh-out-loud funny riff on the differences between men and women, without being mean-spirited. If you've seen the play, then, when you see that the PI has a meta-blog from, for, and about moms, you say, "of course." My husband and I have seen the play. We've taken his parents and a dozen of our friends. Next is our teenaged son. Anyone reading this far down in the comments would probably really enjoy the play and the truth it contains. Peace be with you.
This mom blogs to remind herself that adult discourse still happens.
@23 hahahah
I dunno about everyone else, but I still am a little put off by people who post pictures of their children on the internet. Too many weirdos and no filter.
Both mj and Nav raise very valid, if off-topic, points. It is not cool to have your whole life story on the internet, and especially not cool to involve your kids in it. I know next to nothing about mj, except for the things she's posted here, which isn't much. I've opened myself up a bit more, Google me and you will learn that I'm a retired Denver cop, divorced (from Slog) who grew up a couple blocks away from Meredith Viera (from her blog), and a Benefactor Member of the NRA (also from Slog). But that's really about it. And then there's Fnarf. I've never met the man, but I can tell you his name, where he works, what he does for a living, his email address, his wife's name (public record there, ST), the color of his hair, the color of his eyes. that he does a neat trick with quarters, what he does for fun, and the list goes on. And all that in about 5 minutes on Google. Can you imagine what a real stalker could do? My point is that we need to be a whole lot more careful about these things.
@33 Fifty Two Eighty, this cracked me up...
both mj and Nav raise very valid, if off-topic, points.
I always manage to go off topic. My brain just seems to always pick up a side note and go off topic. I was born just to drive on task logical people crazy.
Your observation made me laugh!
Well, mj, there's good off-topic (you) and bad off-topic. And there's drunk off-topic, which I'm gonna be if I don't get to bed real soon. Have a good night, sweetie.
ECB better not have said that.
and I still have Ian's artwork ...
ECB, that's not true. Yes mothers take care of children, men take care of them when they are adults.
I am so glad to see that Dan still has douche bags on his mind each and every day.
The earth is on its orbit, the sky will be blue tomorrow.
Do men use douche bags? I missed something in sex ed, I think.
Portals are so 1999. Without even benefit of Prince and his hip replacement. They are throwing anything and everything against the pixelwall and hoping to hell something stinks, er, sticks. Their breaking news coverage under the P-I brand is decent; put more people there and leave the mommyblogging to mommybloggers and their own sites.
I'm horny.
I believe this is soooooo machista. of course, moms can only care about their children. because, what else would they do? and dads will never care about their children so much .. so there you go, if you are a woman, go out there and have tons of kinds and care about nothing else.. don't dare you care about cars,the globalization of economy, robotic science or german literature and philosophy!!!!!!!!!
Oh yay, just what the world needs, another blog for whiny, self-indulgent mothers to talk about how hard it is to find time to write blogs about ...
Hey Dan, true story: when I worked in hip, left-coast Seattle ten years ago at a firm that needs not be mentioned, one of the senior partners was telling me about a friend of hers who was dying of a brain tumor. I expressed sympathy and received the following reply: "Oh, I know you're used to friends dying all the time [implied: you sorry FAG], but I'm talking about somebody with a family!"
I was so stunned I just walked away, speechless.
"'Because, you know, only women have children.'" Well, in some senses of the word, only women do have children.
For example: "When did you have your child?" Nobody would reply: "Starting on October 12, 1996 and continuing to the present."
If there were a blog for women who like to ski, would ECB be upset?
@ 43 I'm amazed at what that lady said to you. People can be idiots...
@ 44 Dan adopted and did have a child even though he is a man. He conceived through adoption just like I did. : )
I know I'm a brat!
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