Australian author, Constance Hall, had a rough weekend. So did writer and blogger, Lisa Shearon.
The two of them ended up in a Facebook brawl, and the entire incident has revealed an ugly side to mummy blogging.
It shows that disagreement and criticism are part and parcel of sharing your opinion and writing online.
And it shows public figures with big and loyal followings need to be aware of their responsibilities and be sure that they don’t, inadvertently or otherwise, incite an online lynch mob to take down another woman, particularly when so much of your manifesto calls for women to unite with one another.
Here’s what happened.
On Saturday, Shearon published a post to her blog The Notorious Mum, titled “I may be many things, but a queen I am not.”
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The bitchiness of school has made its way onto mummy bloggers. Time to let it go every one
I sometimes find there's a competition going on about who can be the most dysfunctional household with these mummy bloggers. and Constance swears too much which is why I stopped following her. They tend to have poor parenting skills as things appear in their blogs and fotos not that I'm criticising them, I feel for them, but a lot of the dysfunction comes from the children being in control not the parents. They could all do with a dose of triple P parenting. Sharing too much too, and breaching their children's privacy massively. There are some good things, for example they offset the bullshit that is mainstream magazines saying we should live and look so perfectly but they do go to extremes.