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    Image of funzette funzette
    10/30/09

    In reply to Hairy Girls Were "Welcomed In The Courts Of Europe"
    Hirsute suits her! #themarveloushairygirls
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    Image of Jessysaurusrex Jessysaurusrex
    10/30/09

    In reply to Hairy Girls Were "Welcomed In The Courts Of Europe"
    I'm now having flashbacks to the film, Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus. #themarveloushairygirls
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    10/30/09

    @Jessysaurusrex: I really loved that film. Shame it got savaged by the critics. #themarveloushairygirls
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    10/31/09

    @Diziet_Sma: I loved it to-- I thought it was so erotic. #themarveloushairygirls
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    Image of unmoldednicole unmoldednicole
    10/30/09

    In reply to Hairy Girls Were "Welcomed In The Courts Of Europe"
    I plan to get this book. Has anybody heard much about it? Amazon only has one review.
    I know that Aristotle was an intelligent fellow.... I guess.... but I'm so glad I learned, before today, that he was a misogynist ass who made a terrible influence on society.
    I'm sure there are more things to be said than that on the subject of Aristotle/ misogyny/ patriarchy but all I can say at the moment is "misogynist ass". #themarveloushairygirls
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    10/30/09

    @unmoldednicole: Ditto. Fuck Aristotle. #themarveloushairygirls
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    10/30/09

    @unmoldednicole: most of ancient greek society was misogynistic. wives and daughters were relegated to the domestic parts of the house and not allowed to enter the parts where the men entertained themselves with philosophical debate and hookers. unless you were a spartan woman, in which case you had more economic and social freedom than the spartan men, but you still couldn't vote on anything. so yeah...the lineage from ancient Greece to modern Ed Hardy D-Bag is quite clear.
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    Image of lurkerbynature lurkerbynature
    10/30/09

    @unmoldednicole: I have one word for Aristotle: Bees! #themarveloushairygirls
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    Image of Elmo Elmo
    10/30/09

    In reply to Hairy Girls Were "Welcomed In The Courts Of Europe"
    I love the title #themarveloushairygirls
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    10/30/09

    @Elmo: Oh my God so do I. Like the writer of the article, I am also a pale skinned dark haired lady and I can't even get into what a pain in the ass it has been. I think, "when will I be able to afford getting the hair on my chin lasered off?" when I would much rather be thinking "when can I afford a trip to Europe?".

    None of that even comes close to the reality what these girls faced as they lived during that time, with that condition. I can't wait to read it. #themarveloushairygirls
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    10/30/09

    @unmoldednicole: I may have sounded spoiled there. I was just empathizing with the writer of that article. #themarveloushairygirls
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    10/30/09

    @unmoldednicole: No no, I'm with you. Year 8 art class, a self-portrait by Frida Kahlo comes up. Class queen shrieks, it looks like you! (and yes, she did use the word "it" to refer to Ms Kahlo). Cue awesome schooling from the teacher, but the mo started getting bleached that night. Whenever I see pictures of Frida I wish I had her guts. No one told her she looked like a dude because of some hair on her top lip. #themarveloushairygirls
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    10/30/09

    @jenrobe: I love Frida Kahlo's unapologetic expression of her possibly considered unconventional but unquestionable beauty.

    That was a lot of "uns". I just really love her art. #themarveloushairygirls
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    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    When I began blogging in 2002 (early days of blogs), it was an accessory to an online music magazine I was working with - the whole 'lifestyle' aspect. Now, however, I educate and opine on 'living donor issues', which sounds rather benign, but apparently pisses a lot of people off.

    Our society has the erroneous assumption that kicking out a kidney is akin to donating blood, and that the only important thing is 'healing' the sick recipient, even though transplants aren't cures, and the majority of recipients will need multiple donations to achieve a 'normal' life expectancy.

    Ironically, it's living donors themselves who have internalized the idea of being 'heroes' that don't want to hear how the medical community dismisses and abuses them for their $400,000-$500,000 fee. #femalebloggers
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    10/28/09

    @conspicuouschick: I had no idea how complicated the issue of organ donation was from the pov of a donor (and how worked up some people get over it as well) until I read a recent article about it in the New Yorker. Good for you for educating people on it. #femalebloggers
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    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?

    Gould: "...the photos that accompanied the essay were of me lying (rather unprovocatively, to my mind) in bed." This is disingenuous. The photo is below. Magazines just don't publish pictures like this of male authors, lying in unmade beds and smiling sensually up at the viewer.

    (I have no personal animosity toward Gould, but I do believe the picture is meant to be provocative and it's fatuous to say otherwise.) #femalebloggers
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    "Blog" covers such a broad variety of content that it's really somewhat absurd to attempt to quantify and analyze "blogs" statistically. #femalebloggers
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    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    Why is the combination of women + writing so fraught with drama? Women "jousting" in print is construed as cattiness. Women writing books is a specialized section in the bookstore with its own team color (pink). Women blogging is an invitation to threaten and call her names. Argh. 70 years later, and we haven't come that far from A Room of One's Own. #femalebloggers
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    10/28/09

    @midwestdesigner: EVERYTHING women do seems fraught with drama, even the shit we are expected to do by the patriarchy (childbirth, childrearing, marriage, etc.). I am not really surprised that the non-patriarchy sanctioned activities attract a buttload of drama either. #femalebloggers
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    Image of judgingamy judgingamy
    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    On the issue of mom bloggers talked about above: I didn't find anything wrong with what Clothier said. I'm not a mother either, but I didn't smell that whiff of unpleasantness that "mommies are special." I think that women definitely do have the concerns over safety that she discusses, and that yes, those issues would be more compounded if the female blogger has children. As long as childcare is primarily women's work in this society, women will have to worry not only about their safety but the safety of their children. And because I do believe we all need to support each other, my heart goes out to those mommy-bloggers in a different way than to non-mommy bloggers. #femalebloggers
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    Image of samarkand samarkand
    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    Further reflections on the Mother Jones article: has anyone actually been able to define the difference between social networking and blogging? As is noted, "social networking" is dominated by women and I wonder if there are fewer women bloggers not because women aren't saying as much on the internet but because when women do say things on the internet it is classified as "social networking" rather than "blogging."

    I mean, what's LiveJournal and the various LJ-alikes? I've never seen it as social networking, I don't use it in order to "network socially" I use it to express myself. #femalebloggers
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    Image of HandsHeldHigh HandsHeldHigh
    10/28/09

    @samarkand: As far as I can tell, LiveJournal is something some "real" bloggers turn their nose up at. It doesn't count. Or maybe I'm just bitter. :)

    I just checked out LJ's user stats. Of those who gave their gender, 65% are female. #femalebloggers
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    Image of elysse elysse
    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    The author also seems to be missing the "I'm going to put this bitch in her place" factor that so many bloggers, commenters, ed-op, or otherwise vocal vagina-owners have to deal with. It goes beyond standard trolling into a very Sisyphian battle when everything you say is shot down by a bitter minority simply because they think that having a penis = god-given right to force women to submit.

    I have my own blog, and I can't tell you how stringent I have had to be to keep this type of person from becoming a serious threat.. even though I don't really say much of anything important on said blog. Most of my haters come from following comments I have made on other blogs that they suppose I should be punished for... to my own blog to threaten me on home turf. I can understand why so many women don't want to deal with it, none of us should have to, but in my own way I hope my not-backing-down and defense of my own internet identity will make it easier for others down the line. Fuck the haters, they be hatin'- they ain't shit.. #femalebloggers
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    Image of RiloKilo RiloKilo
    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    Also: "In addition, women often don't like the intellectual jousting."

    Really? Is she serious? #femalebloggers
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    Image of RStewie RStewie
    10/28/09

    @RiloKilo: This.

    Because ...wow, SO UNTRUE. I LOVE intellectual jousting. With all my girly heart.

    I DON'T like being the subject of ridicule for my size, shape, gender, or other non-salient-to-an-intellectual-discussio... features.

    But in my experience, it's not women that fall back on that tactic when they're "losing"...it's men. Men who feel that my gender makes me automatically inferior.

    When I've seen this addressed on other blogs by women for women the criticism from other women is "You're mean!", not "You're fat!" or "You're stupid!". I don't think this means female bloggers are generally represented by more aggressive women, I think it means even relatively easy-going women feel confident on the Internet expressing their viewpoint. Then again, there are those that have to move because of threatening commentors. ...so I guess it's just a normal mash-up of women, like in the normal world?? #femalebloggers
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    Image of sybann sybann
    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    Try "too freaking busy." And I used to blog a lot until I found a certain site that offered a community and instant feedback from all corners of the earth and it became a HUGE time sucking vampire...

    At least vampires are trendy y'all. : ) #femalebloggers
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    Image of yeahisaidit yeahisaidit
    10/28/09

    @sybann: This. The handful of women bloggers I've known have all had this same answer. #femalebloggers
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    10/28/09

    @yeahisaidit: Economic downturn means more work at work for less money (no more 401k contributions). I can't read all my sites/blogs and write one. Glad you agree it's mostly a time issue - plus these wonderful women and those they've inspired to spin-off into their own co-op blogs (which I really think is the answer - I could easily do one or even two posts per week) keep me busier reading than I used to be. #femalebloggers
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    10/28/09

    @sybann: Now I've got to go update my FB status and change my profile pic to a Halloween friendly one. ; ) #femalebloggers
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    10/28/09

    @sybann: I would totally do a co-op blog with other women. One or two posts a week is a hell of a lot more sustainable than one or two a day. #femalebloggers
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    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    I read Emily Gould's piece this morning, and the part that has stuck with me the most was "the burden of being symbolic and representative." I think that's something that a lot of female writers, whether they're bloggers or novelists, struggle with. Why must every woman, whether real or fictional, be a representative for a much larger group?

    I've seen this conflict play out so many times on Jezebel and other websites and publications on a number of issues (Rihanna, the mommy wars, what exactly "feminist" means, etc...), and it really illustrates what I think Ms. Gould was trying to point out: there are so many different kinds of women, with so many different backgrounds and thought processes and biases and aspirations, and it would be wonderful if more of those diverse voices were heard. Just because we only hear from certain women does not mean that they have to represent all women. #femalebloggers
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    10/28/09

    @robina: This is why I genuinely like The View. I hate Elizabeth Hasselbeck, but I enjoy Hot Topics immensely because it shows how many different kinds of women there are, and their different views. #femalebloggers
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    Image of whynotshesaid whynotshesaid
    10/28/09

    In reply to The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
    My non-blogging-ness has nothing to do with fear of intellectual jousting. Really, it comes down to three reasons

    1. I write all day at work, then I come home and write some more on my book and my essays. I am also training for a marathon, and I hope that next year I'll be a graduate student. Someone kindly tell me where the free time to write a blog is located. If you can find it, I'll blog.

    2. There are already a lot of other women blogging on the topics that interest me, and they are doing it much better, thanks in no large part to the fact that they actually have the time to do so. (See #1)

    3. Most of the energy I do have for blog-related activities is spent here. Because I love this site and I love you fucking dykes. #femalebloggers
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