time to put the bee in Ellen’s bonnet about that spreadsheet..

A full 42 percent were edited and written by men only, while 7 percent were by women only. Another 45 percent were edited or authored by both men and women, though the “coed” mix was overwhelmingly male. And, not surprisingly, most male bloggers linked to male bloggers

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Whine, gripe and moan. Apparently she is really proving her own point, isn’t she now? Women seem to be their own worst enemy…does she really think she is helping the proverbial “Cause” by making us all sound like a bunch of cry baby girls because the boys won’t link us into their blog sites! Give me a huge freakin’ break.

Who wants to link to someone like this (or anyone else who actually agrees with her)?

Michelle doesn’t seem to have any problems getting links. But perhaps that is because she is actually talented and not out there feeling sorry for herself!

MM is right…this is a tired old argument (yawn)…IMHO it makes women look like a bunch of petty little ninnies!

With that said, there are some interesting lists that can be used as “directional.”

Drudge’s list of columnists and bloggers is pretty well known. It’s his personal list, of course, and it therefore contains his bias.

Even so, I did a quick tally and here’s what I came up with:

There are 116 links there, as of this writing.

5 of them are either broken, co-written, or “I can’t tell.”

86 of them are attributed to men. That’s about 77% of the 111 that can be identified as either male or female.

The remaining 25 sites, including this one, are clearly run/written by women.

Goodman’s grad student identified 49 sites that were either male or female, but not both. 42 of those, or 86%, were male.

Both Drudge and the “Mystery List” support the hypothesis that the blogosphere is primarily male. That doesn’t mean that this data proves anything, of course, but it’s a couple of data points.

Unlike the mystery list, this list is now published and verifiable…

BTW, what difference does it make if the blogosphere is mostly male or not? Welcome to freedom. Anyone can blog, for free, at any of a dozen locations. I blog. So what? If men want to write more than women, why is that a bad thing? Or a good thing, for that matter?

Good grief, talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill.

What I look for in websites I frequent is good writing on topics I find interesting, and that talent knows no gender restrictions. And unless the person’s name is on the website, I can’t generally tell by the writing which gender is responsible. Moreover, the audience I’m seeking to reach is that of people my age and under who seem, for the most part, less into typical gender stereotypes. So I think Ms. Goodman is trying to stir up an issue where none exists because the top 90 political blogs likely got that way because they’re either well-written, on subjects which have popular appeal, or both.

I would like to see how this story eventually develops though.

Ms. Goodman, I am a blogger and a woman, fancy that! To be true, (you do know the meaning of that word, don’t you?),I read mostly male bloggers, and a few excellent women bloggers. I do not read hateful and/or crazy females, however. I have been linked by my blogroll to some of these and the
hatred that is spewed, not only at things conservative, but generally at men, businesses, and in one instance (I believe there is a restraining order against this female professor) a child. There is no “discussing” and posts are generally overrun by the same ilk, deleted or banned. Why waste my time on homo sapiens of the female persuasion that have only hate in their “hearts’.
Your researcher might try contact Michelle Malkin and get a list of
the wonderful core of female bloggers we have on the right. If,that is, she is not one of these females described above, in which case, it would be a waste of our time.
Sincerely,

Michelle Malkin wants the data from Ellen Goodman, and I’ve got it….