Bloggers Specials this week

Sorry, the more I think about it the more this upsets me:

Surely, especially when lots of women on here have talked about their rapes and when MNHQ has previously been supportive of campaigns for rape victims, whether or not rape victims should be supported or traumatized should not be a 'detail'.

That was crass.

X-posted. I am slow tonight

I'm part of the bloggers network (for now) and there are a separate team who deal with the blogging community. Which BTW is freaking MASSIVE now.

Literally hundreds and hundreds of blogs are part of the MN network and so why this particular blog (which has very few posts - which strikes me as weird, when I joined the network i was told I'd need to be posting regularly) has been featured is BEYOND me to be honest. Apart from the fact that it wasn't actually read by a team member at all - and the blog was chosen purely for it's name?

Surely once someone had read all the posts, and let's face it there aren't many, they would have come to the conclusion that this really isn't quite the blog to be featured as 'blog of the week'?

Yes- short of them recommending a YouTube mash-up of Eva Braun singing I Know Him So Well, I can't think of a more inappropriate thing they could have linked mumsnet to.

Thanks Helen

Re the blogger team I got the impression from both posts from MNHQ that the blogging bit is MNHQ but a different team to the talk boards.

I see Helen. I think.

Do you have any idea how someone who's employed at HQ could think this was acceptable? It seems totally against the ethos of MN to me. I mean, it's not exactly 'details', is it? IMO.

helen, thank you

If the bloggers network isn't being run by MNHQ that's a bit surprising (to me, anyway). I think most people would assume that MNHQ is in charge of the bloggers network. I'd say that MNHQ need to take a look at who is making such disastrous decisions (and writing such terrible copy) in their name. It only takes seconds to find the details of this case online - why did no-one check it?

Thanks Helen. Can we ask again who the bloggers team are? Like whoever else said it, I had no idea they weren't you.

I've reported this thread again.

I think because the title is about blogging it's not getting as much traffic as it might otherwise. I suspect that's why MNHQ aren't prioritising it. It's Friday night and this thread is relatively civilised so far.

I have to say I think the Bloggers Network response was somewhat disingenuous. They're saying that they don't select bloggers based on their private lives, but this blog was obviously featured because of what is happening in the blogger's private life and it was advertised as such, including the mention of the rape conviction.

Given her blogging name, it's also difficult for them to argue that the focus isn't around her husband's guilt or innocence.

Finally Mumsnet Bloggers, whoever you might be, if you read this blog properly, this is a very disturbing story, for the blogger herself. His DNA was found for the rape because he committed an assault on her. This is a violent dangerous man. Whether you meant to or not, you've endorsed her belief that he isn't, and that is worrying.

Thanks hand bof and the rest, for articulating all I wanted to say

Come on MNHQ, please can you tell us who is on the bloggers team who decided to make this blog of the week and wrote the terrible blurb on the specials page? There's no indication on the bloggers' network site as to who is running it. I assumed it was MNHQ.

Totally agree with LeBof.

This is shockingly awful!

If we as members can find out the ins and outs of this awful awful case in a matter of clicks then surely the bloggers team should be carrying out the same sort of checks FFS?

God I'm bored with fucking moaning about stupid shit like this round here lately. coming a week after the dreadful decision to allow some anti choice statements to stand on a thread where opinion was NOT sought only support just makes me wonder. Again.

Absolutely, LeBof.

BOF's post hits the nail on the head. There is nothing inspirational about a woman who stands by a convicted rapist and I cannot believe MNHQ believe that. There are plenty of single mums and plenty of women whose husbands are in prison - I'm sure I could find you any number of blogs describing what it's like.

The only person who is inspirational in any of this is the woman who had the guts to stand in the courtroom and face her assailant.

I'm curious who comprises the blogging team and whether they realise how spectacularly tasteless their journo-style 'hook' is "This week we're glued to the blog 'A Convict's Wife' by Izzy Gil-Tee", when a cursory google throws up the most distressing accounts of a truly monstrous crime.

Jesus, its like a Private Eye spoof of how crass the Press are. It trivialises something so horrific that I'm embarrassed to be associated with this as a poster here.

I'm not satisfied with MNHQ's promotion or response to this either.