Well, Neal’s announced it so now shall I.

Offsprung has officially launched! Offsprung is tagged as a website for parents that don’t suck. From Neal’s description:

So, then, Offsprung, the perfect online antidote to a parenting culture gone mad. We feature the sharpest, funniest writers on the Internet, each one eviscerating, or at least challenging, a different excess of that culture.

So why am I promoting a parenting website? Well, because I’m one of the featured bloggers:

–Matthew Tobey brings us The Cleaver, the final word on the absurd and semi-evil world of celebrity parenting hype.

–Christopher Monks has created Dadsmacker, the first-ever blog totally devoted to taking on the pretensions of “hipster” parenting, a ridiculous movement that no one on this site has been involved with in the slightest.

–Amanda Marcotte, the scourge of Catholicism, brings you Unsprung, which should make Christian right “pro-family” moralists shake in their hypocrisy suits.

–Amy Davis keeps the shark from jumping on Huxtabled, serving as our primary tastemaker in the world of video-based children’s entertainment.

–Leigh Anne Wilson, operator of the Honeysuckle Shop, a well-regarded online sex-toys establishment, writes all about matters orgasmic in Lock The Bedroom Door.

–Dara Grumdahl, a James Beard award-winning food writer, puts the American diet to shame with Defamisher,.

–Alternadad Neal Pollack will dispense parenting advice with the help of his trusty Silver Surfer.

My blog is called Unsprung, to reflect my spinster auntieness (having stolen Twisty’s phrase after discovering my sister is pregnant, making my status official). It’s roughly the same as Pandagon, but I recommend checking out the other bloggers, as they are hilarious. (Betcha know some of them, too.) But since it’s a newbie site, we don’t have a lot of comments yet, so if you want to throw some up, please do.

Why did Neal ask me to be a blogger for a parenting website when I don’t have kids and am known on occasion to gripe about the lunacy that is having kids? Well, you can see the general mission of the site is to create a space for parents who don’t buy into the hype. So, basically, my presence shows we’re serious about that mission. So, parents and non-parents alike, I recommend checking it out, since the writers are top-notch.

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