August 19th, 2008
Hindustan Times Story on Women Bloggers in India
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My friends Ajay, Ramya, Melody and Sakshi were recently quoted in a Hindustan Times story on women bloggers in India.
Interestingly, another friend Neha Tara Mehta wrote the story and she tells me that the idea of the story came out of a conversation we had a couple of months back.
Here’s the full text of the story –
Blogos-unf@ir!
Neha Tara Mehta, Hindustan Times
August 09, 2008It’s not all fair on the blogosphere, with an increasing number of women bloggers being harassed with hate mails and nasty, anonymous comments, often with sexual undertones and even stalkers.
Popular mommy blogger The Mad Momma who writes The Brat The Bean and Bedlam calls trolls (people who post nasty comments on blogs) “pestilence”. “They can’t accept the fact that somebody who they think is typically bovine and child-centric could have an opinion, on say, Tibet. These people find it annoying and mystifying that I am just a mommy and my blog is popular.”
The Mad Momma gets nasty feedback not only on her blog but also on other blogs. “My six-month old daughter has been called snot-eating and shit-sniffing. There was a post that said that my husband earns Rs 40 lakh a month and that I pretend to be poor when I write about recycling things,” she says.
