Demi Moore is the Best Birth Coach Ever!

Madeline Holler — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:39:00 GMT

You'd think having the throaty woman who played G.I. Jane might be too hard-edged for the quiiiiiet, peeeeeaceful, suppoooortive atmosphere of a Labor and Delivery room. But the grown-up, knocked-up, real-life version of the woman who played Punky Brewster thinks Demi Moore is the best thing for childbirth since birthing tubs and epidurals.

According to People magazine, Soleil Moon Frye thinks Moore is the "queen mama" and an "incredible mom" and hopes to have her by her side again when she pushes out her second child next year. Moore coached Frye two years ago during the birth of her daughter.

Moore sounds very willing. "We gotta keep the team together!" she said during the grand opening of The Little Seed, Frye's new eco-friendly baby boutique in L.A.

Says Frye: "She's the best birthing coach in the entire universe."

OK. Since Moore's acting career appears to have stalled, maybe she could be a doula to the fertile D-list?

(Quick question: did anybody ever watch Punky Brewster? I couldn't get through a single episode and I watched just about anything on TV when I was a kid, including early versions of Jazzercise shows on PBS.)

Blogging's Dirty Little Secret

Karen Murphy — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:22:00 GMT

Bloggers are a goldmine to advertisers. Think about it: if you, as an advertiser, could get someone to advertise your product for you, and for practically FREE, wouldn't you? All you'd have to do is maybe send out a sample. That's it! And then you're golden, because you've got all these influential people talking up your product to their buds on the blogosphere! Perfect!

Of course, the PR people for the advertisers are smart. Hey, they have to be! So they try to target bloggers that 1. have readership and therefore influence, and 2. blog about things that sort of relate to the product (or not; I've had some wacky pitches).

Oh, and I should mention #3: that AREN'T people of color.

What??!

Yes. True. Our own CityMama Stefania wrote a revealing and scathing piece about this very practice. Frankly, after reading it I felt sick. Stefania receives pitches from PR people daily for her personal blog CityMama, but her group blog Kimchi Mamas, a Korean identity and culture parenting blog, receives nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero.

Why? "Because we don't pitch to people of color," says the PR guy Stefania questioned.

It's because Asian people are invisible in the media. Discrimination by invisibility. Which is the worst kind of bigotry because everybody pretends it isn't happening. But think about it: other than as a stereotype, when was the last time you saw Asian people on TV, say, just doing what people do? I was struck during my recent visit to Vancouver, a very multi-cultural city, because it was clear that people of all sorts weren't regarded as being part of one group or another. They were just ... people.

Why isn't it like that in the media? And what can we do about it?

Strollerderby : people of color

Demi Moore is the Best Birth Coach Ever!

Blogging's Dirty Little Secret