Stop! Stop! You Evil White Male, You’re Oppressing Me! Oh, this is some bunk, innit? Anyway, instead of wasting my time refuting her many misdirections and misrepresentations, let me just point out a new line of attack on the progressive/open source community: you’re sexists! It’s getting to be more common, and the Goodman piece is a prime example. Although, it would’ve been more effective if she could’ve avoided the Heather-y bitchiness in it. OTOH, that’s what people in the SCLM
live for, so I guess I should expect it.
Pseudofeminism: A Tool to Attack Progressives
Submitted by chicago dyke on Fri, 2007-08-10 09:02.
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Are you saying the liberal
Are you saying the liberal blogosphere doesn’t have to contend with sexism? That all is suddenly forgiven in the rosy afterglow of Yearly “Sanctimonious Women’s Studies Set” Kos?
Not So Fast
There really is a “new boy network” among the A-list bloggers, although the people being shuffled to the kids’ table are not necessarily all women. And I say the history of the blogosphere really does provide a narrative for How Male Dominance Happens. It’s not always intentional, and women are not always innocent victims, yet it’s there.
Hmmmm -- I wonder if this is a new version of
“women aren’t any good at math or science, they should just stay home and cook and sew and keep their mouths shut.”
Yeah, lots of bloggers are guys. So? I’m not. Athenae’s not. Digby’s not. If Ann Landers had lived long enough to be ’Net savvy, she’d have a top site (maybe not a blog).
On second thought, she is uncharacteristically full of sh!t
and I am disappointed, as once upon a time I liked her columns.
Steve Gilliard.
Tena, at First Draft.
CD, Xan, Leah and your humble writer, here.
Jane Hamsher.
The Inestimable WaterTiger.
I still think it’s ’cause Goodman’s trying to say “Good gurlz don’t know how to work the Internetz”, or some crap like that.
One of the first impressions I got when I waded out...
… into the leftysphere was how many of the best and most-respected blogs were solely or substantially written by women. And that’s before I knew Digby was a woman’s name.
Though I can’t claim major “alpha male” cred, most of my interests put me in circles that are male-oriented. So to see what looked like more or less half of the blogs I found worth looking at to be by people who were “differently gendered” than I, I found that notable.
Ellen Goodman
She needs to get out more — like to the fucking convention she’s “reporting” on.
If women didn’t blog, I’d have a lot more free time every day. *g*
Yet we still are responding to this sort of.....
….utter bullshit, complete with concern trolls, the idea that blogging is dominated or even heavily influenced by white male is, now please pay attention folks like maha and others, complete and…..
…utter bullshit.
Now, can we get back to the serious work of destroying the conservative ReichWing and rebuilding America.
As for Ellen Goodman?
I’ve shit her.
BTW
Did you see this?
Xeno,
when that first came out I emailed a question to the Senior Fellows …
the (largely absent) response suggested to me that maybe even if Kos is a counterintel operative, his site is still useful.
So I started reading it (about three weeks ago).
The community of Kosovars seems legit, whatever their leader’s real motives may be; but I’m still an Atriot.
If only The Great Orange Satan was....
…a CIA operative! Think of it! We could have caught that nasty OBL by now.
We would have the ’dead-enders’ and Al Keada-in-Da-MeatGrinder on the run by now.
He could have found the THREE TONS OF MONEY that went missing in ’Baged ’dad!
We would have found out who ’outed’ Valerie Plame!
The mind boggles!
maha, the "a-listers" can't organize their way
out of a paper bag, you’ve got to trust me on this one. sure, they form several cliques of “influential” bloggers, but so far that hasn’t really translated into much action, sexist or otherwise. i mean, i suppose it is an accomplishment that ~500 people will post really silly diaries defending your right to be a sexist pig who blows off a woman’s safety concerns, but that’s a long way from preventing bitches like me from blogging. or being on “important” conference calls and being read by candidates. which we are, as are most better wimmin bloggers.
Turns out most blogs are written by teenage girls
Hey, a real journalist sez so!
http://edcone.typepad.com/wordup/2005/12…
Blogger a long tail phenomenon
So the fact that the long tail turns out to be mostly teenage girls is not relevant.
Interestingly, that post is from 2005, and it shows that asshole Skube was just as ignorant two years ago is he is today. Still, the LA Times pays him, and he’s a professor, so he must be an expert, right?
We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan
I'm not at all sure his factoids are to be believed, either
Typical of anti-blog “experts” he seems to have done little homework and less thinking.