Something funny

The historian I have been recommending so annoyingly deleted my only comment I ever left at her blog.

Yes, Susan Wise Bauer didn't like something in my comment. I'll explain.

She has what is called a 'mommy blog'. "Just dropped the kids off for soccer, then I'll have to clean that playroom, also I want to try that new recipe, oh, and have to get my clothes together for a two day trip to New York for a publisher's meeting, plus I have to read 17 volumes on Renaissance era northern Italian kingdoms and finish my third draft of the manuscript..."

OK, mommy blog plus her writing a world history.

The thing is: mommy's are very tuned in to the voice of the stranger. They hear that 'stranger voice' and they gather the cubs together and go into defend mode.

It's common on Christian blogs run by women.

It's also what makes churches so ridiculous. Same thing going on. They're family centers, so strangers are very unwanted. And, of course, real Christians are *strangers* in this world (like Jesus was, who had things to say about family, remember?). That's not just a chance correlation of words.

So, I have the 'stranger' in my voice. I've said before, I'd go on Christian forums and just say 'hello' and I'd get the same reaction. They hear the 'vibe'. It doesn't matter what you say. My comment she deleted was about as innocuous as could be. It was like one sentence about how she seems to have so much going on at the same time. But the subject matter itself is not why she deleted. It was the sound she could discern in it of the 'stranger.'

I usually don't go near mommy blogs (or churches), now I've learned that lesson again.