Comments on: BlogHer Give-Aways and Take-Away Messages

By: shuna fish lydon

shuna fish lydon — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 22:12:31 +0000

Thank you for this post. I went to BlogHer having no idea what to expect. Perhaps because my “straight and married” friend base has expanded (greatly) because of my new foray into blogging, I knew that these might be the bulk of people at the conference. It’s rare that the gift bags serve my interests anyway but I was surprised to see them so geared to specific sorts of female born people.

I specifically had my printer print a number of T shirts in the 1XL to 6XL range for the big girls.

I think that what was most interesting was it appeared that few of the women had ever attended an event with so many other women, (unlike those of us who seek it out), and so the absence of “the male gaze” that defines how women should dress, eat, and behave was something new and peculiar for many of them.

And when I saw that WW was there I was deeply confused. I’m hoping that next year the food itself will mimic the region and the season. Some of the food bloggers have already begun to discuss this…

By: whump

whump — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:40:49 +0000

@ Lisa V: thumb drives are always an appropriate swag item. I want to find a vendor who'll sell those in bulk with a logo screened on. That would be so cool for next year's WisCon.

By: Lisa V

Lisa V — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:49:56 +0000

I heard the water being called “ass water” by at least twenty people. It was awful. I’m sure contrex will be sorry they gave it away.

The goodie bag was pretty worthless- except for the zip drive and the cork screw.

The janes- we called them “the math is hard Barbie” after they said how scary home improvement was about 20 times.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 18:58:34 +0000

Not to mention “the janes”. Ugh.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 08:35:22 +0000

Thank you both for being a body-positive presence at the conference. As you describe so clearly here, it was sorely needed. We may not have had body-positive sponsors, but I do remember seeing this awesome vendor table with two bold, different-than-the-rest-of-us-looking women selling beautiful books of fat nudes and causing intellectual trouble.

I think that f*cking mattered.

By: nabil

nabil — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:13:10 +0000

i had big fun with you 2 today– thank you for adopting me in the crowd of heteronormativity!

yay!

more to come after some sleep…

xxxooo

nabil

By: Lea

Lea — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 01:15:18 +0000

Wow, that goodie bag sounds vile. Good thing I’m not there.

And WTF about a WW event? The hell? Only if audience members are allowed to pelt them with Twinkies and ask hard questions about WW funding “obesity research.”

By: Stef

Stef — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:56:51 +0000

Well, if it had an aspirin dissolved in it, then it could cause you to lose up to 8 pounds a year by hemmorhaging from a bleeding ulcer.

By: whump

whump — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:07:09 +0000

@ Betsy: and the thing is, that water tasted terrible. Someone at lunch described it as tasting like it had an aspirin dissolved in it.

Hope they pay those French models a decent endorsement fee to drink that stuff.

By: Patia

Patia — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 02:53:53 +0000

How incredibly annoying.