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Well, curious.
Jan. 24th, 2012 04:46 pmA short while back (I think while I was away in London) there were some SquidU forum posts about an email that RocketMoms would be ending, to be replaced by RocketSquids.
This makes me happy. OK, I do feel sad for those who loved RocketMoms and felt like they got a lot of encouragement and support from that community.
But I've been vocal in the past about why the whole "RocketMoms" thing rubbed me the wrong way. It was exclusionary toward women who couldn't/didn't want to be mothers and seemed like a kind of weird thing, to me, for Squidoo to promote without offering similar alternative communities to those who could not quality.
I'm much happier with the idea of RocketSquids - Giants and editors who are willing to offer support and guidance to new lens-masters. If it opens up, I will apply to be a mentor, absolutely.
I won't be egotistic but I will say, when I have complained about the discriminatory wording/nature of the RocketMoms group, I did get response. So perhaps in some (very very) small way I've contributed to a change? I really have no way of knowing nor will take credit for it. But I am happy to see this change in Squidoo's future. I do love the site and have really had nothing but good interactions with their higher-ups in the past year. So yay.
This makes me happy. OK, I do feel sad for those who loved RocketMoms and felt like they got a lot of encouragement and support from that community.
But I've been vocal in the past about why the whole "RocketMoms" thing rubbed me the wrong way. It was exclusionary toward women who couldn't/didn't want to be mothers and seemed like a kind of weird thing, to me, for Squidoo to promote without offering similar alternative communities to those who could not quality.
I'm much happier with the idea of RocketSquids - Giants and editors who are willing to offer support and guidance to new lens-masters. If it opens up, I will apply to be a mentor, absolutely.
I won't be egotistic but I will say, when I have complained about the discriminatory wording/nature of the RocketMoms group, I did get response. So perhaps in some (very very) small way I've contributed to a change? I really have no way of knowing nor will take credit for it. But I am happy to see this change in Squidoo's future. I do love the site and have really had nothing but good interactions with their higher-ups in the past year. So yay.