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Just a reminder, the super-fantastic contest at MBT ends tonight at midnight. There’s still time to tell us how blogging empowers you--the winner will win a free registration to BlogHer! There’s a runner-up prize too! Find the deets here.
How does blogging empower me, you ask? I’ll tell you. Before I became a mother I worked for a really fun, dynamic music company where I considered most of my colleagues my friends. We ate lunch together every day and talked about everything: movies, books, childhood experiences, sex, philosophy, reality TV (OK, lots of talk about reality TV). The point is, I spent a lot of time talking to people, debating, learning, listening, and, occasionally, waving my arms in the air, ranting.
Since I quit my job to stay at home with Cakes, I have much less opportunity to converse with interesting, intelligent people in person (yes, Cakes is interesting and intelligent but she doesn’t talk back much). Sure, I meet lots of them at the park, but it is rare to really have a conversation with one of them. It is continuously interrupted, cut short, or distracted. It’s not enough.
In the blogosphere, I can compose my thoughts at my leisure (often more successfully than in person actually—-I’m not that articulate in person). I can engage whenever I like, with fabulous, brilliant, experienced, thoughtful, compassionate, courageous men and women. And for that, I’m most thankful. It keeps me going.
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posted by metro mama @ 3:25 PM
5 Comments:
Hear, hear! I so wish I knew about blogging during those looooong days (and nights) with colicky daughter #1. Who would've imagined there was a whole network of women at my fingertips?!
I just said over at Sandra's that I think that THIS - what you've said - is really the source of what we might call empowerment. Becoming a mother is our - was my - first taste of disempowerment. Of isolation, of vulnerability. That I've been able to address this disempowerment head on, through blogging, has, I think, made me much more aware of my privilege. And more determined, and possibly more able, to make a bigger difference.
amen, lovey.
and what Bad said.
Exactly my feelings, too. Exactly.
Yes. yes yes yes
It really does help fill the 'in person' void that you had at work and out and about on a daily basis. Conversations at your leisure with lots of fabulous, interesting people...
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