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more about #rebeccatraister more comments → conspicuouschick: 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... more » cirocco: Gould: "...the photos that accompanied the essay were of me lying (rather unprovocatively, to my mind) in bed." This is disingenuous. The photo is b... more » Jack_Burton: "Blog" covers such a broad variety of content that it's really somewhat absurd to attempt to quantify and analyze "blogs" statistically. #femalebloggers more » midwestdesigner: Why is the combination of women + writing so fraught with drama? Women "jousting" in print is construed as cattiness. Women writing books is a special... more » judgingamy: 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 tha... more » samarkand: Further reflections on the Mother Jones article: has anyone actually been able to define the difference between social networking and blogging? As is ... more » elysse: 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... more » RiloKilo: Also: "In addition, women often don't like the intellectual jousting." Really? Is she serious? #femalebloggers more » sybann: 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 e... more » robina: 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 t... more » whynotshesaid: 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... more » Casquivana: I read Gould's piece and while there was something in there, she basically ends up making it about herself. She comes off defensive and personalizes h... more » LatoyaPeterson: Ack, double post. more » LatoyaPeterson: Nice piece Anna N. I for one, would like to question a few of the assumptions. Technorati does have good data about blogging, but there are definite... more » Mireille is German for the Bart, the.: Whereas a man who disagrees with another man is seen as limited to those two and normal, a woman who disagrees with another woman is seen as committin... more » -
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The Female Blogger Deficit: Are We Too Nice, Or Not Nice Enough?
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.
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#notablequotables
The Girl's Guide To Hunting And Fishing
Nora Ephron on life as an unmarried, eager eater: "I would cook a meal for four and eat it. Really ... By the way, I had an entire marriage that I mainly only remember Rice-A-Roni from." [Salon] -
#kittykorner
How Do We Survive The Cougar Attack?
Salon's Rebecca Traister hates the word "cougar," when it applies to older women dating younger men. She writes: More » -
#girltalk
Recession Casualty: Female Solidarity?
A piece in Salon suggests that in a recession, we find sexist stereotypes comforting. To that we'd maybe add: girl-on-girl crime? More » -
#tmi
Tampons & Garlic & Discharge, Oh My! Graphic Body Talk Goes Mainstream
Today, Salon's Rebecca Traister explores the phenomenon of female writers' "graphic" accounts of the "messy realities of their bodies." Wait: Did someone say our name?!
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