Comments on: A woman’s place is in the HTML

By: Jenny

Jenny — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 16:32:14 +0000

It was so wonderful to meet you! This is a wonderful piece… says everything I hoped we captured in our session. Thanks for sharing your articulate, humorous and honest voice with all of us.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 22:44:09 +0000

You crack me up – I love the title of this post! I regards to the content here… well said!

By: Richard Silverstein

Richard Silverstein — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:01:11 +0000

Julie: i’d suggest that you use a permanent link to that NYT article since your link has died. Try this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/fashion/sundaystyles/17LOVE.html/partner/rssnythttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/17/fashion/sundaystyles/17LOVE.html/partner/rssnyt (have you disabled html in comments?). That should work better.

Also, if I might modestly put myself forward as someone who tries to blog thoughtfully about children/family/parenting (though my blog is not solely about those topics), I’d like to do so.

By: Nancy White

Nancy White — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 18:16:36 +0000

Julie, your post (and the amazing mommy bloggers at Blogher) were a good reminder to me that not only are each of us of value, in whatever path we take, but that each of our experiences brings our unique voice to our writing. That is worth tons.

It is easy to dismiss a sector: Teen bloggers, mommy bloggers, fashion bloggers, political bloggers, sex bloggers. We may find some of them foreign to our experience and assume they are of little value.

But peeking in, getting a sense, reading by first withholding our judgement (hard for me) can open new vistas.

There is no one blog form. Blogging is a way to express ourselves and in that, there is no one form, no one practice. What is shared is simply our voices.

By: Lisa Canter

Lisa Canter — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:02:34 +0000

I put a post up about how great this post is but it doesn’t show in your other blogs commenting option. Oh well – great post!

By: Yule Heibel

Yule Heibel — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 04:39:48 +0000

Great post, Julie, thank you. One reason Helaine Olen presumably wrote what she did in the NYTimes is because she got paid to write something …funny, engaging, yet without consequence — which neither you or I do. If I were paid to write what I do, I might tilt or slant things differently, no? All the same, that’s no excuse — and your critique of Ms. Olen is absolutely right on. Ironically, I just posted another comment on Shelley’s blog entry about Google (see http://weblog.burningbird.net/archives/2005/07/29/to-google-pregnancy-is-evil/) that having a baby is a sexual act, and that this society is too afraid of women’s sexuality. I’m afraid I rather lost my temper, and someone will probably say “hysterical” or “bitter,” but to hell with that…

Have a great time at Blogher — I can’t go, no money…. Heh, maybe I should have spent some time trying to get gigs with NYTimes-type publications, instead of blogging for free…?

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 04:03:24 +0000

Have fun at Blogher! I’m so envious, I wish I could have gone too.
I agree with you …woman are usually in the background but they have so many important stories to tell. Have a wonderful time this weekend!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 30 Jul 2005 04:03:15 +0000