I’ve been doing a project on privilege and blogs for a talk I’m giving at a conference in October–specifically, on how ableism is reflected in the world of mommy blogs. Mostly I’ve found that moms whose children are physically different in some way have blogs with lower traffic than women whose children are physically normal/average. (I chose this angle b/c it’s a conference about motherhood, it’s a panel about blogging, and my daughter has an undiagnosed form of dwarfism.)

I’ve been blogging about my research, and while I expected some defensiveness, I absolutely did not expect the level of attack I’ve seen so far from people who take affront to the very idea that privilege and “isms” are present on the momosphere in any way, or if they are, could possibly be considered important by anyone. It’s been unreal.

I am so glad to see I’m not the only person who’s experienced this dynamic.