The Miley debates, and striking ethical positions!
We are currently discussing ways to open our blog to mommy bloggers to allow for community dialogue about ethical choices. We are especially interested in the variety of views about what we owe others–the rights of our family and friends to privacy and confidentiality.
Imagining our blog as a space for open discussion about ethical practices, we have had to face the important question of our moderating/monitoring role in all of this this. Do we open the blog and say “All welcome. All views equal.” Plurality at its best. The governing value here would be individualism.
Or do we acknowledge that mommy bloggers are expressing positions they have learned from within the space they occupy in our culture. They are driven in their choices by the force of powerful systems. This means that some positions are better than others–more informed, more responsive, more thoughtful, and so forth.
Who’d have thought twerking and tonguing Miley Cyrus would help us think this through. But she has provoked a variant of this debate. Is she a puppet of the system or expressing her right to make independent choices. See how this plays out at the interesting site Sociological Images by Lisa Wade:
[link]http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/10/14/my-two-cents-on-feminism-and-miley-cyrus/
Imagining our blog as a space for open discussion about ethical practices, we have had to face the important question of our moderating/monitoring role in all of this this. Do we open the blog and say “All welcome. All views equal.” Plurality at its best. The governing value here would be individualism.
Or do we acknowledge that mommy bloggers are expressing positions they have learned from within the space they occupy in our culture. They are driven in their choices by the force of powerful systems. This means that some positions are better than others–more informed, more responsive, more thoughtful, and so forth.
Who’d have thought twerking and tonguing Miley Cyrus would help us think this through. But she has provoked a variant of this debate. Is she a puppet of the system or expressing her right to make independent choices. See how this plays out at the interesting site Sociological Images by Lisa Wade:
[link]http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/10/14/my-two-cents-on-feminism-and-miley-cyrus/
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