Where Are All the Women Bloggers?

So, I had the urge to start a women’s blog, even though I’ve had others but I don’t know, things just never really satisfied me. So, I started looking around. Started wondering if it’s different for women. I don’t have an answer for that but in the meantime, I found this post on women bloggers and decided to post an excerpt here and you can click the link below to read the post:

When I first came to the blogosphere, I collided head-first with a "why aren't there more women bloggers" discussion. Apparently it wasn't the first time the issue came up for debate. That same debate came up recently - again. Although the latest incarnation is about liberal women bloggers, the debate was the same then as it is now - some men wonder where all the women are, and women sigh, repeating for the umpteenth time, "Take off your blinders, guys. We've been right in front of you all along."

Kevin Hayden wrote about those mostly male bloggers who ask "where have all the women gone?," sprinkling nearly every word of his post with a link to a woman blogger. His update of that post had more links , including one to my blog. I remember in May, 2003, not long after I had joined NZ Bear's Blog Ecosystem, when Kevin had sought to make left-wing bloggers (in particular left-wing women bloggers) more prominent , and he had promptly been spanked by NZ Bear, NZ Bear's commenters, and others to whom he had bcc'd his e-mail. Aside of the annoyance some felt over what they believed was spam from Kevin (I received the e-mail and did not take it that way), there was the usual (mostly from men) "women get mentioned" and (mostly from women) "women don't get mentioned enough." More…

UPDATE: 7/8/2018 -- The above link now has changed to an erotica link, which is not what is was when I linked it years ago. Years ago it was valid observation of what women experience in the world of communications (and elsewhere of course). But it is a good example to a realistic answer to the question: "where are all the women bloggers?" -- which is the title to this blog I started many years ago (this was not the first because the harassment I experienced then incited me to close down several others and not only harassment by men). And I'm tired of saying it so just go ahead and link to the link posted 12 years ago. It is now an erotica link. Women, we can't help that the world will likely never see us as more than that! But that matters none. We have our own ways. Perhaps some are blind, god rest their souls.

Women Blogging

I'm not new to the blogosphere and it's pretty risky advertising that I am a woman but I did it anyway. Why do I say it's risky? I say that because I often find myself getting different types of responses to my opinions on the blogoshpere if I have a female moniker, as opposed to an experiment I did. The experiment was that I changed my name to a male name and found that although people disagreed with the same arguments at the same rate, the way they disagreed were a different animal. When posting as a women I typically am called whore or old bitter bitch or something like that~~with no attendant data to support an alternative position. Then when the same sentiments and information is posted with a male moniker--someone who disagrees, also with attendant insults, provides evidence or data to support the opposition.