Birth Junkies Behaving Badly
Posted by: childbirthtruthsquad on: July 18, 2010
2) Feel free to include the offenders’ posts leading up or other background material.
3) Include a link back to the offending blog, so she gets a lot of hits from here and looks.
4) Publicize this on twitter, facebook, e-mail blast, or by pony express (because that way is so much more natural)
Anecdotes, e-mail, twitter posts, links are also accepted.
Always remember cut and paste and save early and often. You never know.
5 Responses to "Birth Junkies Behaving Badly"
July 19, 2010 at 6:21 pm
I envisioned this as being more about the cover-up than the crime. The focus is not on whether a position or action is wrong, but how they act in response to those who raise the issues and (gasp!) evidence they are — deleting, banning, namecalling, evading the issue, ignoring, and worst of all berating actual victims, etc.
By resurrecting banned responses to questionable assertions, it shows the author has been made aware of the defect in her argument. The absnece of a response is not accidental, deletion indicates she knows the defect is true and wants to hide it. Hopefully, these will come up in google as high as the deleters’ blogs.
They claim to be about choice for and empowering and informing women. They sure want to shut you up when you don’t agree with them. They sure don’t want other women to find out anything.
Nevertheless, feel free to post whatever you want. This meant to be entirely user driven. I will try to elevate new material to its own entry.
I will try to delete nothing, as blog standards from no spamming to TOS have been misused to delete inconvenient truths on childbirth blogs. (although if the ads for Meet Rich Available Men…. or Increase the Size of Your ____ start coming through, I might make an exception).
August 21, 2010 at 1:42 am
Oooo, your site is delicious. Of course I hope I never find myself here but in the comments, but I fully support what you are doing. I’ve been viciously attacked, on-line and off, for speaking out about midwives and their actions towards clients, their need for more education and, just last week, I was removed from my Peer Review because I “spend too much time on the Internet and might not have the proper discretion” when it comes to midwives and their care. Not kidding. I was also advised to move because I was, for all intents and purposes, a midwife-non-grata.
Well, I’m not leaving and now feel an even greater urge to disclose the inner workings of homebirth midwifery. I might never work here again, but at least I will be speaking the truth.
Thank you for being here. Very, very much.
August 21, 2010 at 2:41 am
There was a huge discussion on “Skeptical OB” about the website “My OB Said What” and how the owners/sponsors were not listed on the site.
Who is the owner of this website? Why are you hiding your identity?
Posters have to share their name and their email before they post, why are yours hidden?
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July 18, 2010 at 9:07 am
This is a good idea, but why not include some of the more breathtaking bits of “advice”, the misuse of data, bizare birth stories? Like “shoulder distocia doesn’t happen if you are standing up”? Not a direct quote, unfortunately, but advice given to, and swallowed by, a homebirthing mother. As Liz P found to her cost, taking on the enthusiasts usually gets a lot of venom directed your way, and is drowned out as often as it is deleted.