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March 15, 2005
Ladies, It's Time To Go Skeet Shooting Again
Unbelievable. A month has not even gone by when that danged "women blogger" question has come up again, this time from Brian Montopoli at CJR Campaign Desk. Here's the relevant portion of his post:
Jumping off of Steven Levy's column in Newsweek - which covers ground, incidentally, that we took on a year ago -- Chris Nolan offers his explanation for the lack of woman and minorities in the blogosphere. We recommend the whole thing, but for now we'll highlight this paragraph:
Big Media reporters prefer to deal with the "top-tier" bloggers and folks in their own part of the world - the East Coast. That's who they call for TV: Sullivan, Jarvis, Reynolds, Marshall, Kos. That's who makes it onto dial-a-quote lists. Those appearances reinforce Big Boy Bloggers' bigger numbers. On Charlie Rose' blog show, the guest were Glenn Reynolds, Ana Marie Cox and Andrew Sullivan, no one west of the Mississippi. No minorities. That's diversity Big Media style.
This crap never ends. He's right that Big Media prefers to deal with a handful of "top-tier" white male bloggers whose blogs are a very narrow depiction of politics. The "top-tier" white male bloggers are also guilty of ignoring women and minority bloggers for the few they link to in their own camp. Then, periodically, these same male bloggers ask "where are the women and minority bloggers," when they should be asking "why don't I link to more women and minority bloggers?" This is nothing new to women and minority bloggers, who have been telling these guys where they are located ad nauseum for years. I already wrote to Montopoli and gave him the details about the last time a guy wondered "where are all the women and minority bloggers?" I was quite nice about it. I wrote about mainly the women blogger question, since that's where my interest lies. I suggest my readers give him a heads-up too, so that we don't have to keep seeing these kinds of reports that there are few women and minority bloggers.
To reiterate, the women bloggers are everywhere. Good places to find them are here:
You may write to Brian Montopoli at this address and give him the good news that there are plenty of women and minority bloggers, if only the A-list male bloggers and the media would take the time to look for them.
Posted on March 15, 2005 at 09:39 AM | Permalink
Comments
Gift wrapped, TW. As far as the whole dominant link hierarchy goes, I want to thank you again as I meander through the links leading to wisdom everywhere. And I will have more to say about this later. As far as the dominant concept goes, why want what doesn't work for you? I think of Malcolm X, Malcolm who was a separatist first before he became much more. He had to go through a process where he was focused on the things closest to himself and that is where he found his strength to become much more.
With polito-Guys, in pajamastan as in the White House Press Pool,it seems to be all about competition. Nobody follows up too much on what somebody else has done. That's one reason Bush gets a pass, On the Estrogenated Elite side of things, process and success seem to come more from a continuing adding up of more, more of everything. More varied interests, more time and depth to a subject.
My point is: why are women continuing to define their success by what men have? Who needs these dorks with a my link is bigger than your link mindset?
Walk away from the abusive marriage, delete the dorky guys from your links. They lose, not you.
It's clear to me women already have so much more. How you frame things determines the picture you see. If you don't accept their rules, you have to play their game.
Posted by: The Heretik at Mar 15, 2005 10:09:46 AM
if only the A-list male bloggers and the media would take the time to look for them.
Awww, shucks! Poor Trish Wilson is upset again because she's not an A-list male anything!
Perhaps if all you goofy women bloggers had something useful to say, you would attract the attention of male bloggers--the attention you so desperately crave.
Tim
Posted by: Tim Pitzener at Mar 15, 2005 10:38:29 AM
And you come here and hump Trish's leg because. . . ?
Posted by: Sheelzebub at Mar 15, 2005 10:47:55 AM
Sheelz, I shook him off and locked him in the barn outside, in the snow. Now I got leg cooties.
Posted by: Trish Wilson at Mar 15, 2005 10:53:22 AM
Is anyone else as bored as I am with this topic? And I mean BORED.
Posted by: Roxanne at Mar 15, 2005 11:09:12 AM
Oy.
Posted by: The Heretik at Mar 15, 2005 11:10:44 AM
What he doesn't realize is that Chris Nolan is a woman.
Oops. Those tricky gender-neutral names.
Posted by: Lauren at Mar 15, 2005 11:38:57 AM
Oy, glad somebody like Lauren told me about that man/Nolan/Chris/Woman deal, cause I'm not bored with this topic yet. Giving it the whole frikkin month. What I am bored with is cats and dogs. Don't get me wrong. Love the pooches and the felines, but ain't it odd. Some of your um dominant types give more space to Cat blogging and Dog Blogging than they do to Women Blogging?
Oy. Today Only Tuesday Women Blogger Blogging
Posted by: The Heretik at Mar 15, 2005 12:04:47 PM
I guess I would be a double-whammy for Brian, because I'm a woman AND Biracial (half-Black/half-White). That should make his head spin. Yes there are plenty of us :-)
Posted by: Pseudo-Adrienne at Mar 15, 2005 4:47:36 PM
