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Despite hopeful stats from a few years ago, men now outnumber women in the blogosphere by two to one. So why don't more women blog? One blogger thinks it's because we're too sweet — but we have some other ideas. More »
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Maria Amelia Lopez, a Spanish great-grandmother who called herself "the world's oldest blogger," died today in her home at the age of 97, leaving more than 1.5 million readers from around the world mourning her passing. More »
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Recession? Pshaw! Women's blog network BlogHer has netted an additional $7 million from investors including Venrock, NBC Universal's Peacock Equity, and Azure Capital. The new capital brings BlogHer's total funding to $15.5 million. [NY Times] More »
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It's Love Your Body Day today, and according to the National Organization for Women, one of the ways you can participate is by making a pact with yourself to treat your body with respect. Well before we can make this sort of super binding agreement, we feel we must apologize to our bodies for the hate crimes perpetrated by our own prejudiced hands! Liz Rizzo writes a letter to her bod on Blogher's website, and in it she apologizes for letting "that woman in Tallahassee permanently destroy our eyebrows. If there's any way we could start growing hair again in that place where she burned our skin off, that would be awesome." Read some self-apologies from Jezebel editors to our bodies after the jump, and add your own in the comments. More »
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Michelle Obama's back to blogging after a bit of a hectic summer, publishing her second-ever blog post at BlogHer today. In it, she talks about the problems with pay equity and John McCain's statement that women just need more education and training to close the pay gap. She'll be speaking with Jezebellian heroine and pay equity poster woman Lilly Ledbetter tomorrow in Richmond to highlight all the ways Obama's campaign is better on women's issues that John McCain's. [BlogHer] More »
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There is a scene in the pilot episode of My So-Called Life, where Angela is walking out of the bathroom in a towel, and her dad can't look her in the eye or have a conversation with her without fumbling all over his words. Then Angela says, resignedly, "the sad truth is, my breasts have come between us." I love that scene so deeply, because it perfectly illustrates the trouble parents have when coming to terms with the fact that their widdle babies are indeed, sexual beings. This essay, posted by no_I_am_zoe on Blogher's website, is also a great example of the difficulty parents have in treating their children like adults when it comes to sex and sexuality, and how hard it is to act like an adult when you're being infantilized. The post is called "Father Adult Lesbian Daughter Moment, Will It Ever Change," and it describes an interaction Zoe with her Catholic dad about gays and depression. More »
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The New Yorks Times Sunday Styles Section published a long piece this weekend on the BlogHer conference that took place opposite Netroots Nation more than a week ago. While it was entitled "Blogging's Glass Ceiling" and touched on one of my favorite topics — the relative lack of prominence of female bloggers, and especially political female bloggers, in the top of the blogosphere — it might well have been titled "Blogging's Glass Ceiling At The New York Times." We explain. More »
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