grumblin How lovely of you. I have become a bit of an egotistical maniac over the last few days, but my few remaining scraps of sanity tell me that the media weren't interested in ME, they were interested in 'the mumsnet blogger'.
One thing that's been a real eye-opener for me is seeing how the media, and bloggers, perceive mumsnet. These are people who have never been on the site. By and large (with some exceptions obviously), they think 'mum' is a synonym for 'drooling idiot'. They think that to explain things to an MNer, you have to use simple words. They think that if you get an MNer on your TV/radio show, they're going to give a half-baked Daily Express viewpoint before collapsing in a puddle of mid-priced perfume.
In short, they have utter contempt for mothers. But at the same time, they know that MN is an absolute phenomenon. I've never seen people's jaws literally drop before, but that's what happens when you say '850,000' to someone who knows something about online traffic. They want in on us. They want to get on the site and pump messages into it. They just don't want to do their research first, or treat us like a bunch of men and women who know a thing or two.
It's been the only depressing (personal) part of what's happened over the last week, for me.