Why More Women Aren’t Bloggers
Why More Women Aren't Bloggers
No, it isn't that "the patriarchy" rules Movable Type, Expression Engine, or Blogspot. Fellow girl blogger Melissa Clouthier gets it right:
The Internet still feels like the Wild West. There are some safe homesteads-social media, for example. Consider: On Facebook, a woman can decide who she wants to connect with and who she wants to keep out. On Twitter, a woman who feels wrongly attacked can block the attacker. (Meghan McCain, the mad blocker, comes to mind. She takes even mild criticism as a block-worthy offense.)When it comes the arena of ideas, the women who blog are not typical women. Over and over, the women who blog are tougher. Like the shotgun wielding Western expansionists of yore, women bloggers take shots and can shoot back.
Women bloggers are often sexualized and insulted. One famous incident with Kathy Sierra involved photoshop and personal information. Kathy quit, something I urged her not to do. She is now, though, on Twitter and I believe she blogs anonymously to spare herself the insulting misery. Michelle Malkin, Amanda Carpenter, and just about every conservative woman blogger, including me, has endured horrible personal, violent and sexual insults-very often from "enlightened" male liberal commenters and bloggers.
...In addition, women often don't like the intellectual jousting. Part of it is gender wiring. Men see verbal sparring as a testosterone-fueled challenge. Women see degraded communication and hostility. When they put an idea out there, it seems aggressive when someone rips the point of view to shreds. And, it is aggressive.
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Thanks for the link, Amy!
This is why, on themed message boards, its nearly impossible to get traction on a topic that involves gender.
The stereotypical generalized modes of communication pop up, and frankly "da men cant hang yo"