Comments on: CafeMom - most sexist parenting site on the internet.

By: Marie

Marie — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:55:01 +0000

Wow- totally agree with your post. On top of thatthuogh. Cafemom doesn’t seem like a very nice place to be a part of - the question/answer section is bitchy and judgemental and people seem to hate on each other every 2 seconds.

By: Caitlin Backlinker

Caitlin Backlinker — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 18:14:24 +0000

I cannot believe they do this. I have this interest to join them but I guess this has just changed my mind.

By: Pregnancy First

Pregnancy First — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:08:42 +0000

I think it’s totally pointless trying to exclude men from sites like Cafe Mom. Afterall, the experience of having children doesn’t just affect women.

By: parent

parent — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:59:29 +0000

I really do not understand what the problem is. I mean moms are moms because of men, it all seems childish. Why not pay more attention to child care or parenting, it would be better that way.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 18:44:49 +0000

Men join anyway. They don’t ask gender at registration. They either share with a spouse or hide behind a screenname and keep quiet about their real gender and participate in the site in a positive way and interact like anyone else.

Why not work with the dads, allowing them to be open about themselves, rather than forcing them to be sneaky, cuz there is no way to stop them from joining anyway if they want. If they’be been booted they just sign up again and learn what not to do this time. There are good dads out there that need help or just need interaction like we do.

Having a pair of boobs doesn’t make a total stranger trustworthy with personal info, so this “safety net of just us girls” thing is very very naive. As well as thinking a website name is enough to stop the dads from joining up. Text on a screen is not a physical barrier.

Its wierd justice that they let jerky moms play on there openly, but the nice dads on there have to hide themselves.

By: Parenting Tips with Video

Parenting Tips with Video — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:37:04 +0000

No way! Except in the case of the effects of single parent families, there are male and female parents. In today’s society, ideally you need both perspectives.

By: Lorelei

Lorelei — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:56:31 +0000

It seems to be a trend: after all, MissBimbo is also owned/operated by men, but aimed at women, and it is hardly a feminist site.

By: witch

witch — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:14:03 +0000

How could any space be feminist separatist space if it is owned and controlled by men? Even the starting premise is patriarchal.

I enjoyed this article, thanks.

By: SJ

SJ — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 20:55:42 +0000

I love the conclusion you’ve come to. I never thought of it as achieving the opposite of what the site appears to be promoting. I was just seeing it as more of an elaborate self-delusion at first (wrt the pedophile comment, especially).

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, I wouldn’t want to be part of any club that excludes a whole gender, even though I could be a member.