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The No-Bitch Zone
October 20th, 2010 | 
Author: By Honey B, Staff Writer, The Honey B (@thehoneyb)
I set out to write this post to encourage positivity in the blogosphere. Why? Because the world is just full of it and nobody likes negativity.
Until I realized nobody, except blogosphere. We LOVE negativity! Half of us have entire blogs devoted to it; at any given point you can find numerous posts with some sort of bitchy tone in my Google Reader. And that’s because those posts are, more often than not, hilarious.
Case in point: one of the most viewed/commented posts I have involved losing my temper, swearing at and then hanging up on my husband. Over cheap strollers. It was a very proud moment in my marriage and where better to detail that pride than a play-by-play on my blog!
And don’t even get me started on having an opinion; I’m scared to mention my secret thoughts about anything mother-ish for fear of the Mommy Huns. You’ve seen what they can do! Negativity doesn’t even begin to describe the carnage left behind from an epidural-vs-natural birth debate.
Queen B. says if you don’t have anything nice to say, shut up. But let’s just be honest here; if I don’t have something to be bitchy about, I have no blog.
But I really did want to talk about being less negative on the blogosphere. I want to leave Google Reader feeling like kids are something to look forward to and that most married people like being married!
So I’m going to try. From here until the end of this post, I will say nothing negative or snarky about anything or anyone. Even the Mommy Huns.
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Well. I think that’s all from me, folks!
What do YOU think about negativity in the blogosphere?
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there is negativity… while most times it’s humorous, joking about motherhood and the stresses involved with it, it does come with its share of just being mean. and THAT is not cool.
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Well, it does come across as humorous as many times, and lord knows we all can use a laugh now and again! It just doesn’t need to be mean. And we need to remember that the internet is forever. And ever. Amen.
Bernice
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LOL! Love it.
I think it’s easier to be negative, especially as a mommy blogger when we’re all relating to one another over the poopy diapers and the tantrums and the picky eating and the criticism over out decisions (ANY decisions). You are right: negativity makes for a lot more blog fodder than full-on positivity. I try to stay positive on my site, but some days that’s pretty tough.
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While I don’t have a mommy blog, I *love* reading them- like now on my lunch break. When I find a blog too negative or bitchy, I immediately unfollow it. I try to stay away from meanness and negativity at all costs.. That said, I do love it when bloggers I love go off on rants. These are usually their most hilarious posts. Mommy Huns just sound dried up and scary.
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Funny you should mention this today because last night in a head cold infused fury I spewed out a full on rant about crappy parents at McDonald’s playland. I don’t often rant, but I was due or something because it came out in a feast of enmity. I could go back and retract it all, but I feel like it’s my blog and I can say what I want. I never asked anyone to read it, so there. (Stick out tongue here.)
But most of the time, I do try to keep things at least humorous, whether positive or snarky. It gets to be painful to read about people’s complaints all the time.
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I am all for authenticity on blogs – no one wants sugar ALL the time. But, I have noticed by looking at my own numbers that the negative/sad posts get far more clicks/comments than the happy ones. Why?
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I agree, when negativity is hinted at, I want nothing to do with it.
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Oh I try to stay positive and uplifting but with a 2.5 year old and a nine month old at home with me everyday that is very hard sometimes. I do find the negativity and bitchyness funny and nice to know that I am not the only one that just has “those kind of days”.
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