Comments on: I will speak until the death of gender inequality

By: Mel

Mel — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 15:59:36 +0000

One of the most common sexist dismissals of women bloggers is that we’re “self-involved”. Particularly if we deign talk about our bodies, relationships, or problems living in a sexist culture.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 19:04:59 +0000

Given what you research and your mention of gender in blogs I thought you might find this site interesting

http://pickupyourowndamnsocks.com/

I find it humorous but would be interested in what you would think of it….if you have the time to check it out.

By: SocialTwister

SocialTwister — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:09:19 +0000

Gender, Teens, and Blogging

The role of gender in any cultural movement always raises important issues regarding how we interpret and dissect information, power, and the connections between. Over the past few weeks I have been keeping track of a few different pointers that…

By: xian

xian — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 09:23:41 +0000

I’m on deadline so I haven’t been keeping up with my own blog too closely! but I did skim Pete’s “enough/meme” post and my impression was that he wasn’t saying that this isn’t a valuable topic of discussion but that he’s tired of the “women don’t blog” inferences drawn from skewed statistical pools (such as the readers or writers of wonky political blogs in which such typically male pursuits as publicly competing to demonstrate mastery over details are treasured).’

I can’t speak for Pete and he may want to clarify this. I will re-read his entry to see if it does in fact dismiss the whole idea of looking at gender and blogging at all, because I would agree with you then that that’s not appropriate.

That would be like saying that affirmative action is unneeded since “we live in a colorblind society now, don’t we?”

Anyway, keep holding our feets to the fire, danah…