They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, but recently this blog, was mentioned by Huffington Post contributor Peg Aloi, in Tough Girls: Do They Still Exist?
Apparently there’s a dearth of tough “gals” out there and women are simply “girly” again. And “the blogosphere proves it!”
Peg writes;
Maybe it’s the “new” (crappy) economy, or our fear of the imminent zombie-vampire-Tea Partier apocalypse, or the realization that teaching our kids self-reliance instead of whiny entitlement really is the best approach to parenting, but there’s so much emphasis on, well, ultra-femme domestic activity these days. This weird retro world of cooking, heirloom tomatoes and Jane Austen is starting to feel a bit smug and smothering. Where’s the fun?
My blog’s mentioned under the auspices of “heirloom tomatoes” and whether this is “fun”?
Well readers, being the “tough girl” that I am, I couldn’t leave well enough alone. Here’s my retort to this brassy little article;
Thank you for mentioning my blog under the auspices of “Heirloom Tomatoes” (www.candowomen.wordpress.com) in seeking to answer the question of whether tough girls still do exist?
Funny, I’ve never thought of myself as particularly “girly” or indeed “anti-feminist”, although I do love to cook. And in answer to your question as whether I may personally qualify as tough? Before you or your readers judge me, perhaps I should include a link to my other blog; the one where I blog about my life as a women in her early forties dealing with metastatic breast cancer (see http://cancerculturenow.blogspot.com/2011/01/can-do-spirit.html)
Your post reminds me that both my blogs have been sadly neglected of late due to all the “fun” my illness has been serving up to me, leaving with very little time, ability or gumption to pursue the things I really like to do. Like being a tough bad-ass breast cancer activist blogger, as well as someone who enjoys a bloody good heirloom tomato.
Tough “gal”? You be the judge.
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