Right… I do not go to feministing: Don’t have to — the neo-Christian ladies got there to get material and then present it in a more digestible form. However, when I want to allude to something or quote it, I tend to go and check the source. It’s basic fairness. So I link through from SSM (yes, this evil misogynist neo-reformed complementarian has sullied feministing with his eyeballs) and found this popping up.

A Kickstarter campaign. Now, I like the idea of Kickstarter: sometimes it means that some cool things will be made — cheap film cameras, and the infamous failed Ubuntu cellphone campaign (I wanted that one to work. That was a power phone — 128 Gb of ram, quad core, and able to do double duty as your desktop).

But for feministing? For a relaunch? Get real. If you have huge traffic surges, yeah, sure… but I self host this place, and it costs me a couple of hundred a year to the webhost.

But I blog as a hobby. I make my living doing something useful.

That includes the women. Many of the women in the neo traditional sphere are raising their kids and playing defence — if you have a stay at home wife the job description includes

• Ensuring the housework is done. You don’t need to pay a cleaner.
• Run the home garden — decreasing the grocery bill.
• Avoid the supermarkets and hit the farmer’s / get meet in bulk — ditto.
• Deal with a lot of the social communication — less need for a personal assistant.
• School the kids (in the USA, in particular, sending boys to school is a form of child abuse).
• Care for the infirm.

When I was a child, the number of social workers, cleaners, laundry services (they had already been killed off by automatic washing machines) was minuscule. Child minding? Easy. The mothers looked out from what they were doing and talked to each other and trusted each other. No need for play dates — all the kids in the neighbourhood were playing tag through all the back yards or cricket.

What the feminists are doing is asking to be sponsored to sit around and snark. Well, if you are good enough you can make a career out of it. Julie Burchill did. Jeremy Clarkson does. And if you do make your living blogging and writing, it’s hard work: you have to sell stuff — either books or advertising, or both.

And it does not cost anything to install wordpress and set it up: I use free themes. Backing up your site, again is cheap: the entire thing can fit on one, one small USB stick.

What these people are doing is saying that they have a right to go on a crusade, to campaign, and demand money to do it. To pay them It does not work that way. Either pay for it yourself, with money you make from honest labour, or accept advertising, or use your website to sell things that have worth. Because begging is no business model.