There are sometimes when I come across a blog that just gives me food for thought.  When something gives me food for thought, I usually end up writing about it.  Basically, just putting my thoughts out there on paper, as if I were writing in a journal at home.  At first I thought I was not being true to my blog, when I would write about topics that did not always stick to my main theme.  Then I realized that this is my blog, and if I want to get off track sometimes then that is OK. 

I was looking over a new, to me, blog that I had read yesterday and the author, mesina, had written a post that I just found interesting and I wanted to participate in her discussion about the topic.  In her post. Thou Shalt Not Swear, she talks about “mom bloggers” and whether it was acceptable for them to swear in their blog posts.  Or at what point does a “mom blogger” swearing make you think less of them. 

She also asked a question at the end of her post,.” Do you swear on your blog or do you tend to steer clear of the swear police?”

 I personally think that looking poorly on a mom who uses swear words in their posts is an unfair double, standard. Why would it be OK for one person to use swear words in their posts but not OK for a mom to use swear words?t  A mom is no less human than someone who is not a mom.  Why should a mom who swears in her blog posts be treated differently? Using that logic, then we should say a mom blogger should not even read blog posts with swear words in them. 

For me the only time I would turn away from a post that had swear words in it, is if the swear words were taking away from the author’s point.  That just makes a blog boring for me to read. 

I think that our blogs are our space.  To do with as we please as long as we do not break the terms of service we agreed to.  If  a mom wants to use a swear word here and there or even have a profanity filled post, that is her choice.  It would not make me look at her differently.  At most it might cause me to read her post at a time when my daughter is not looking over my shoulder.

I personally do not swear much if at all in my blog posts.  I may have said shit once or twice, but it is not something I really say a lot.  My reasoning for not using more swear words in my blog, is that in real life I rarely use swear words.  I write like I talk. 

I do however read blog that uses a great deal of swear words in it. Bud, who writes WTIT: The Blog, uses the big swear word all the time in his blog.  Does that make me a bad mother for reading it?

Anyway, to sum things up, I do not look down or differently at mom bloggers who use swear words in their posts.  I do not think they are bad mothers, nor do I think they are of bad moral character.  For many of us our blogs are our place to blow off steam, be creative, and be ourselves.  Using swear words in a blog seems perfectly natural to me, if that is what you choose to do. 

If someone is offended by the fact that a mother would use swear words in her posts, then I dare say that is probably someone that would be offended by a great many things and we would be hard pressed to find something that pleased them.

Mom’s need a place to call their own too, so I say be honest, be creative, be yourself, and have fun with your blog, swear words and all.