Dear Wall Street Journal – Go Home, YOU’RE Drunk

Today, after making sure that the cellist was comfortable at the school science fair, completing an early morning phone interview with a leader in autism research, and completing homeschool lessons, and cutting out patterns to cut (all before noon mind you – a personal record of mine) I was linked to an article by the Wall Street Journal on “Mommy Business Trips.”

>collective sigh<

The entire article was so demeaning to those of us who take our jobs as seriously as I believe most bloggers do. While I’m at it, while I know a lot of us don’t mind the term, can we stop calling everything “Mommy {fill in the blank}” because contrary to popular belief, EVERY blogger doesn’t always have kids. Some also happen to have penises – that they were born with – and lack breasts, hence they can’t be moms.

Basically, the point that I’m trying to make is whenever articles like the one posted in the Wall Street Journal yesterday,  paints all women who blog as late sleeping, bon-bon eating, alcohol imbibing Desperate Housewives I get a little irritated. ESPECIALLY since I’ve SEEN plenty of work conferences that have been male dominated that can easily be categorized as doing the same. How about some of these men could easily be writing your prescriptions?

Oooh, didn’t like that? Well, now you see just how errant it can be to totally use a blanket statement to describe a group of professionals in a less than glorious light.

Sure I’ve made friends at the blogging conferences that I’ve attended. They’ve taught me how to code, how to have a greater reach, the proper way to file business taxes, etc. I also PAY for my conferences and don’t get reimbursed. I’m not sure why that should be important, but I feel that if a corporation as large as the Wall Street Journal is going to judge women who decide to have a great time AFTER conducting business, then it should be noted that most of them are coming out-of-pocket in some form or fashion.

 However, let it be known that I miss my kids. A lot. When I do want to escape from them though,  I ESCAPE THEM WITH MY HUSBAND, not leaving him to fend for himself. Gosh, what type of wife do you take me for?!

I’m sure by my twitter and Facebook feeds, there are a lot more bloggers who will take a more serious tone than I did – because I mostly deal in sarcasm as it makes me feel great, except when I’m sewing. Sarcastic sewists end up getting needles through their fingers, and I like my digits. Anyhoo, there will be lots more articles about this, which makes me feel a bit irritated because the Wall Street Journal will just be ANOTHER online “blog” of sorts getting way more hits in one day than I do in half a year, and they’ll pay to send the reporter to a conference where I don’t doubt she’ll get up early, refuse to eat any sort of sugar item, and make sure to call her children and husband to handle the household business because they just can’t get along without her.

~Make It  A Fantastic Day