And to me, it doesn’t matter if Ms. Griffiths had announced her pregnancy or not. If she doesn’t, paparazzi hound her night and day and guess about her uterus’ state of affairs with huge headlines “PREGNANT?” and until she does readers and critics alike will proclaim her fat. If she does, people call her a headline hound, seeking fame and notoriety at the expense of her unborn child. She can’t do right no matter which route she takes.

Just because I announced my pregnancy to friends, family, and coworkers, does not mean I would want my picture taken as I was exiting the hospital. Give the woman a break. This is sickening, the paparazzi’s pursuit of a picture of a newborn baby, just to suit the masses. And we all contribute to that by coming to these baby sites and reading these stories.

I admit, it’s a guilty pleasure of mine, but we must acknowledge that if we weren’t all interested in seeing their babies, there wouldn’t be photographers taking their pictures, whether she was on a tv show or not.

Loved her her in ‘Six Feet Under’ as well. I can imagine how stressful it must be to have just given birth and the minute you walk out of the hospital a bunch of obnxious photographers are in your face. How traumatizing for mother and child.

I dont think it matters if she alerted the press about her birth or not, someone in the hospital would have leaked it anyways. It has always been like that, someone leaking information for their own personal gratification.

There was no snide comment made either, so I’m wondering who you were directing that at. I think the thing that really bothered me about what you were saying to Megan was that you had such a severe reaction to what was entirely innocent commentary. And if you genuinely believe what I’m doing is policing, then I can only say that I support free speech and am completely against trying to stifle an opinion just because it’s not ‘nice’. If that’s really policing, then I suppose I must be a little bit incorrect in the way I see it lol.

And I do get where you’re coming from too, but I’m sorry, I still think you equate respectful with nice a little too much. You can be extremely critical and respectful, which given your reaction to Megan and what you have said to me, is not something I expect you to agree with. In simple terms, I can massively dislike someone, but still have respect for them, I don’t have to like them to respect them, if you get what I mean. And actually, you were telling Megan what to do (as well as saying she had a negative and bitter attitude), it wasn’t just commenting on her comment, that was what annoyed me and judging by Megan’s reaction, it annoyed her too.

I think this can honestly all be avoided in the future if those with negative opinions are just given as much respect as those with positive ones. Maybe make comments about the content rather than the one who has written it is etc. Telling people to stop saying things they are perfectly entitled to say is a horrible thing.

Anyways, it’s been nice talking to you .

I appreciate your concern with people “policing” this site but it does seem a bit like what you are doing…that is my perspective. And the moderators surely did not find anything wrong with my initial comment either. I really could care less if Megan is passionate about these blogs and feels it necessary to comment on any one of them, I certainly am not. I merely made a comment just to point out that there is always that 1 person who has to throw a bit of the sarcasm or negative commentary. I don’t think her remark was that offensive nor did I think she was being completely mean.

I am most definitely not unrealistic in my hopes that people can be respectful and have constructive comments instead of snide remarks. Thank you also, for responding in such a dignified way. A debate that is tactful and doesn’t steer down that path of immaturity is always my pleasure.

Your definition of respectful, clearly, is actually ‘nice’, which is great, but not exactly realistic. You can be critical and respectful at the same time you know, which is exactly what Megan was doing, which makes your criticism of her look worse than her criticism of Rachel. This isn’t Brave New World, we are all entitled to have our say, whether that is good or bad, positive or negative. There was nothing at all nasty or mean about Megan’s comment, but even if there had been, it’s up to the moderators, not the readers, to decide whether or not she is allowed to say what she did.

It really comes down to whether or not you’re commenting on the pictures and other people’s comments, or whether you’re going another way, and commenting on someone’s RIGHT to comment. And really, that’s not your call to make. You were not so much expressing an opinion, but rather stating that someone else was not entitled to their opinion. I think perhaps you didn’t see it that way, but that’s where the distinction is and that’s what annoys those who support the idea of free speech.

I hope you get where I’m coming from. Thanks for replying to me in the first instance .