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    Bloggin' Women of all political stripes - reference link

    http://green-jenni.livejournal.com/206850.html
    75 days ago in Jen's Green Journal · Authority: 21

    Bloggin' Women of all political stripes

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    Women political bloggers

    http://www.jillstanek.com/archives/2008/02/the_political_v.h...
    76 days ago in Jill Stanek · Authority: 254

    The Political Voices of Women blog has amassed a list of ~350 women blogging on politics, and I'm happy to be included. This is something to me, especially considering Technorati counted 112 million blogs worldwide as of December. The women listed cover the political spectrum, from Feminist Fire, Citizen Jane Politics, and Washington Woman, to Mary Katherine Ham, Michelle Malkin, and... me! PVW accumulated the growing list in response to New York Times columnist Katharine Seelye's question, "Are more men engaged in politics online than women?" She said.... We know that women slightly outnumber men online. But at least anecdotally, it seems as if more men are on the political blogs, writing specifically about politics, reading about politics and putting in their two cents in the comments sections. Did you notice how many more men compared to women submitted videos for the Democratic YouTube debate in July? Seelye informally polled readers and guessed as many as 3x the number of men argue politics online than women. Reasons? Women are too busy; men are more interested in the competition of politics as sport; men are more interested in political braggadocio, showing off how much they know; men are louder; politically opining women are attacked more and may not be able to handle typical online rancor. Seelye contacted a few prominent women bloggers who agreed: [W]omen were re-defining politics online, away from conventional male-dominated sites that were obsessed with the horse race and toward sites that wove politics into the fabric of women’s lives. I'm not sure what that means. Is it that women are taking politics from just a debate about who's winning to one of issues? Or is it that we're changing political priorities? I think the latter is true. The problem for conservatives is, generally speaking, liberal blogs tend to be louder, meaner, and verbal bomb throwers, censoring debate. I theorize political priorities have not been reshaped based on thoughts of all women but on thoughts of loud women, who even scare conservative politicians from saying much on the life issue. [HT: Onetenaciousbabymama.com]