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I chose to write about the Ayelet Waldman interview.  I thought this was a very deep reading and I felt confused about the article because I agreed with some of her points yet, didn’t with others.  In one of first pages she writes,

The blogosphere has become a way for women to experience a social community that I think has been really rejuvenating, particularly for women that are not working or are not working full time (Waldman, 309).

I agree with this quote that blogs are a way of life for women to experience social community and it does them good.  I know this because my experience of studying women’s rights and classes about women confirms it. I believe that she is right and that blogging helps women open up and they are able to express their feelings more openly online than in the real life. It also gives women who are stay at home moms time to become social with other people who are maybe feeling the same way as they are.

One thing I didn’t agree with at all in Waldman’s interview was that she claims that the majority of the time people blog about something that angers them or makes them really happy. Waldman claims, “When you blog, you blog about what outrages you or what moves you enough to write. It’s more often negative than it is positive” (Waldman, 311).  I think Waldman is mistaken because she overlooks that not everyone blogs online to be negative, people blog about things that interests them, things that they have purchased and to help people. Most of the time people just blog about their lives to do something. I definitely think that she is wrong, and that blogs aren’t always going to be negative, or about something negative.

After reading Waldman’s article it interested me a lot more about women blogging and how blogs have helped inspire many women to get a voice in society, it also interested me to find out how many blogs are actually negative, opposed to positive.