Ruzz asks in the comments below for me to clarify why I think Blogsprogs is "groundbreaking."
Maybe I was waxing a little crazy at 2 a.m. when I wrote this morning's post. I hope I can clarify some of what I think is astounding about this new blog, and why it matters to blogging and humanity as a whole.
1) It's a team blog written (so far) by three men, and only men, about their unborn (so far) children. That's different.
2) It's a team blog written (so far) by three men, and only men, about the the women having their children. That's different.
3) Participating in childbirth is the most intimate experience a man can have--it is the closest he comes to the woman/feminine. It represents something of ends and beginnings and is a profound human experience. Maybe the most profound.
4) We're getting to observe the experience, and its impression on these male bloggers, in real time, or nearly, as it happens. I can't do that anywhere else unless I work on a maternity floor, and then I only get four days tops.
5) It's a blog about love. Big love. The biggest love.
6) These men all live in different parts of the world.
7) These men have never met. Yet what they are sharing will get very intimate.
8) The mothers have never met, and don't (yet) blog that I know of. We don't "know" the mothers except through the fathers' eyes. The same will be so for the babies until they're old enough to blog (or talk non-stop like mine). This is important. It is about strong reflections and how they mirror to our own lives.
9) I just saw the face of the child who's inside of a woman I never met, married to a man I never met, who live on another continent, and whom I love dearly.
10) My husband and I just spent 15 minutes talking about what an endearing name "Sausage" is.
11) Men don't generally sit, three together in a room, at their place of work, each with their respective partners in their 39th week, and talk about things like birthing balls and back pain with maybe dozens or hundreds or thousands of other people, both men and women.
12) This is a moving and intimate extension of the human experience -- these guys are blogging about as close to naked as you can get. There is huge vulnerability and risk here.
13) This is good writing.
14) This is masculine meeting feminine head on. This is creation and re-creation. The birth of a blog mirroring the birth of three human children.
15) This is men showing us their wombs.
16) Imagine the potential. Imagine three babies (so far) growing up together online, their experiences and their parents' experiences represented within a single blog. Imagine them looking back on it 10 years from now, imagine their children looking back. Imagine their children's children.
17) Imagine these babies being the first babies in a new world.
18) I believe that the men blogging on blogsprogs will relate differently to their wives and children because they are doing this.
20) I believe we will all relate differently to one another than we would have because of this.
Be patient. It won't happen over night.
More to come--or add your own in thoughts in the comment box.
