Homeschool Blog Awards Endorsement
December 3rd, 2007 by COD
Today is the big day, the voting for the 2007 Homeschool Blog Awards for Fundies United to Criticize and Kondemn Most Everyone is officially open. After an exhaustive analysis that took almost 15 seconds, I have determined that most deserving blog in each category is the blog listed last. The people on the bottom of the list never win, so let’s help them out. They’ll be winners, and they’ll have a bunch of beer swilling, gay, atheist, freedom loving homeschoolers to thank for their victory.
I’m sure they’ll be thrilled.
Kudos to Daryl for the new name for the awards, which refers to the organizers and not all the nominees. A few reasonable blogs, such as the esteemed Melissa Wiley and Meg made it through the screening process. You should vote for them. I would have if I had bothered to actually read the nominations.
24 Responses to “Homeschool Blog Awards Endorsement”
I just couldn’t do it, Chris.
Even using your “scientific” method, I just could not make my fingers endorse, even in the slightest way, all that sugary-sweet Jesus-induced goody-two-shoe-ness.
I even tried to vote in the unschooling/eclectic category, not expecting to find a real unschooling site, but maybe a bearable eclectic homeschooler. No such luck. They have nothing in that category.
So, sorry I can’t help you in your plan here!
Nance
Your mistake Nance was in actually looking at the blogs. Don’t look, just click.
Awww, but I wanted to vote for:
Help!!!I’m Overwhelmed By My Blessings!
They’re not at the bottom of the list though
I did it and it was painful. I pretended I was a mindless robot and blindly followed the rules. I really didn’t like pretending I was a fundie. I’ll get over it.
Meg @ HSJ is nominated in a category, so I endorsed that.
And any other member of HSJ that was nominated.
I’m their token, loud-mouth non-religious blog nomination.
I was ignoring it until a friend stuck me in and then I figured I’d play it to the max – fully expecting to lose, but hey. What fun.
I’ve already nearly got the entire thing canceled!
Come vote for me, I’m not the last in my category.
Jeez! Could they have come up with any MORE categories to FUCKME? Even voting like a fundy took forever. Thank God it’s not a “vote once per day” contest.
Well drop by Alasandra to vote in the only real homeschool blog award that counts, MINE. One Homeschool Blog Award to Rule them all, that would be the AHBA.
HE&OS and O’Donnell Web were nominated so drop by and vote for yourselves guys. I promise my awards are a lot more user friendly.
Oh and I made a cute button you can display as a nominee if you choose.
“Your mistake Nance was in actually looking at the blogs. Don’t look, just click. ”
Ouch! Not a fan, eh, Chris?
I wasn’t paying much attention to the awards this time around, apart from reading discussion about them now & then at Doc’s blog & elsewhere, but I clicked through from Chris’s link and see that I was nominated in a couple of categories. (Including eclectic/unschooling– that makes me one of the “not bearable” blogs there, Nance.)
I don’t like the changing of the rules to exclude blogs based upon subjective and non-defined standards of “family friendliness.” I think this year’s organizers probably didn’t really think through what they meant by G-rated, or consider that such a rule creates an award set that isn’t representative of *all* homeschooling blogs–which does make the title misleading.
I understand that they’re trying to do something fun & introduce people to new blogs, but I think they missed the mark. However, I don’t discount the sincerity of many of the voters, and I don’t want to cast aspersions about any of the winners. There are some good blogs in the nominee pool. But then I do have very eclectic tastes, and I enjoy a wide variety of blogs encompassing different political, philosophical, and educational perspectives.
It isn’t accurate, though, to paint all the nominees as fundamentalists. Many of us most certainly are not.
I dropped by and for the most part followed instructions and voted for the last blog on the list.
But a few of the categories actually had blogs I like Melissa Wiley’s for one and Why Homeschool for another and a few others. So I voted for them. I think when we have an opportunity to vote for a non-fundamentalist blog we should take it; especially since there are so few of them nominated.
I won’t help them continue their mission to misrepresent homeschooling and those of us who homeschool. I’d be much happier seeing all those people who so strongly disagree pull their blogs from the running and refuse to play along.
Just.couldn’t.do.it.
Horrid.site.
Painfully.named.blogs…even.more.painful.ideas.
Had.to.leave.HSB.webpage.
Am.trying.to.wash.fundie.stench.off.mouse.and.monitor.
Given the crap design of that site that never considered the ability to click “next” and go to the next award, I considered just focusing this on the Best homeschool mom and best homeschool dad awards. If doing all 69 categories is too painful for you, consider at least doing those first two. And of course, if anybody that hangs out here actually got nominated, definately vote for them.
Gee, I hang out here. Even if my ideas are too painful to tolerate on one’s monitor. : )
[...] Not everyone was pleased with the voting process, however. One group of bloggers, disgruntled with the family-friendly policy instituted this year, has renamed the blog awards: Homeschool Blog Awards for Fundies United to Criticize and Condemn Most Everyone. In protest, a call was made to tamper with the election process. After an exhaustive analysis that took almost 15 seconds, I have determined that most deserving blog in each category is the blog listed last. The people on the bottom of the list never win, so let’s help them out. [sic] [...]
I’m going to boycott just based on the month they chose. December doesn’t need MORE shit. So, that said, I won’t even click your link and see who is there. Sam and Doc showed me the light. Except I added “Not caring at all” to that light as well.
The name is cool though.
I decided to stick with Daryl’s name theme. Not enough time to look through them all right now, but in the first four categories:
Higher Up and Further In
Duckabush
By Sun and Candlelight
Confessions from the Rubber Room
Continuing the theme, here are some more candidates (don’t blame me, I didn’t make up these names):
Just Call Me Jammin’
Still His Girl
All You Have to Give
Get In, Hang On
Rabbit’s Nest
You Did What?
Welcome to Granny’s House
Shades of Pink
The Voice of Experience
It Could Have Been Worse
Less of Me, More of Him
Peakmore Academy
Learning to Love
Gag.
Higher up and further in? If that’s not a porn name then I don’t know what it.
“I even tried to vote in the unschooling/eclectic category, not expecting to find a real unschooling site, but maybe a bearable eclectic homeschooler. No such luck. They have nothing in that category.”
I disagree, and the site I nominated for this category made the final list. Life Without Schooling is a real unschooling site with multiple contributors who seek to “represent the diversity and uniqueness of who we are as homeschoolers” and do a fair job of it. I’ve also recently started reading Here in the Bonny Glen as a result of Melissa’s blog being nominated.
I would agree on both counts. Although I’m a little surprised Melissa made it through. Catholic and heathen are a minor distinction in fundie circles
Sam, I am still laughing over your comment. I wonder if the blogger would even ‘get it’, but now every time I see Higher up and further in I am going to think about sex.
Most of the names gave me a headache, especially that dreadfully long one.
I would like to endorse Life On The Planet in the Best new homeschool blog because she’s pretty damn cool. Too cool for their award in fact.
I have to agree with Sam. My preference would be that anyone with a blog worth voting for, pull their blogs from this parody of integrity. If I wasn’t disgusted enough before the contest started (and I had plenty of reason to be), I’m even more disgusted by seemingly normal people pandering to the contest, and endorsing some blogs with a history of writing discriminatory posts. It would be a lie to say I won’t be judgmental when considering why people would want to participate (in anything other than a mocking manner) in a contest that rewrote the rules numerous times during the course of the nominations.