Z Recommends has a thoughtful post about Lisa Carver's review of Neal Pollack's Alternadad (you can read Neal's response here),
in which he points out that blogs with edgy, cynical, ironic takes on
parenting seem to dominate the mommy and daddy blogosphere. Reading
the sniping comments on the Pollack and Carver pieces, you'd have to
conclude that parents today -- at least those who are blogging and
commenting -- are a bunch of angry, labeling, cliquish malcontents.
The labels thrown around with the most vitriol seem to be those associated with the likes of Babble,
including "hipster," "grup," and "trendy." Some of those labels are
well-deserved, but as with all labels they tend to over-generalize and
foreshorten real dialogue and debate.
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