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So I am at BlogHer this weekend for work. And, I’ll admit that I went into it with a little skepticism. And, well, being as its the same weekend as Netroots, I was pretty jealous about the people who got to go. Especially when Al Gore “dropped by.”

The reason I walked into this weekend with skepticism, can really be chalked up to one thing: Mommy Bloggers. There are these, like, “Mommy tracks” where these women can just stay in their little mommy worlds and not attend any of the sessions about political blogging, blogging about gender and race, internationalism, etc.

Yesterday I decided to face my fear and attend a “Mommy session.” It was about self image of children and women on blogs and in the media.

Here’s a short recap:

  • Oprah was brought up within the first 5 minutes, and subsequently evoked at least 15 more times
  • One woman is coming to conflict with her husband over the fact that their 12 year old daughter wants to wear shorts. The husband thinks the 12 year old is asking to be sexualized or attacked. The woman  wants their child to “be a little girl for as long as she can.” I honestly dont understand why the girl cant wear shorts regardless of her age.
  • Another woman talked about the pressure she felt raising “her husband’s children.”
  • I could honestly only spend about 30 minutes in the session before wanting to kill myself.

I know that I am just this 25 year old who, in many ways, cant really relate to women with children. And, maybe I’ll change when I have kids. But I have to say that I just dont see that happening. At all. I just dont see myself being in a place where i would allow myself to be defined by the fact that I have children.

Am I wrong?

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