Comments on: Women in/and political blogging Redux

By: Fmark

Fmark — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:11:03 +0000

Clunk!

The sound of the penny finally dropping. With thanks to Helen at @15.

By: Legal Eagle

Legal Eagle — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:45:45 +0000

Mehitabel @ 9 – People are constantly assuming I’m a bloke. I did have a male avatar, I suppose, so it was kind of understandable then, but the mistake keeps happening. I think law is presumed to be a “male” domain and anyone who has a legal sounding moniker and writes on legal subjects must be male.

What is a “political blog” anyway? I’d say there were plenty of “political blogs” written by women – it just depends how you define it. For example, our blog at Skepticlawyer is mostly political – dealing with the legal side of politics (with occasional forays into music, history and my kids).

Personally, I’m with Armagny – I like blogs which are a mix of the personal and political anyway. I’m one of those 80% of his readers…

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:09:08 +0000

@26 – Heh!

By: elaine

elaine — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:05:42 +0000

yep.

commenting on the post about unequal pay are the reason that this woman doesn’t, in general, engage in the political discourse.

This woman would prefer to go about her life making a difference (no matter how small) through her actions rather than not make a difference and engage in petty at best, vitriolic at worst, squabbling on the internet.

I read it, I think it and I go away and act.

By: Rewi

Rewi — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:45:53 +0000

Hi Kim,

So, what, are you calling me overly defensive now?

By: Gusface

Gusface — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:56:38 +0000

Hi kim
both my wif and I use the handle “gusface”.

The funniest thing is that worstchoices drew us into the webby thingy.If it wasn’t for Jho,we wouldnt have bothered.
I value hers and my opinion but lately we have decided to only post on real blogs,like LP, rather than mickey mouse ones that are playing to a particular cohort
(male,sexist with a distinct groupthink).

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:07:09 +0000

@22 – Rewi, it’s not intended as a criticism, just an observation. I also find it interesting that people have a tendency to read these posts in an overly defensive way that’s not intended.

By: Armagny

Armagny — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:04:06 +0000

Helen, I basically agree: I’ve used the term for ease of relative reference but I think the thrust of your and my comments is largely the same.

As an international relations buff more than capable of engaging any debate on strategic affairs and the like, I maintain (and strengthen by the day) the view that so many stupid decisions in that arena derive at least in part from forgetting the particular, personal, social and familial effects of our actions. Failure to imagine, when we say 100,000 dead, what that means for each and every person who lost a loved one.

By: Rewi

Rewi — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:54:00 +0000

As a now somewhat regular and frequent poster on the Pollbludger site and elsewhere using various pseudonyms in the past, I guess I’d agree with Roger Jones @8 and chinda63 @ 12. The capacity to read and contribute in a consistent way to blogs such as this is tied to the kind of work that I do. When not in meetings I sit in front of a computer either writing or reading. This means that I can refresh ongoing debates regularly and respond relatively quickly to ongoing discussions. It would appear that, much though Jarrah may wish not to revive the discussion about labour equality, differences in online contribution is very much tied to differences in work.

I would say that I’m a little affronted by the implicit suggestion that such contributions are ‘time-wasting’ (‘where do they find the time?’), but maybe that’s just because I waste so much time doing it. Certainly I’m not going to get too hung up about such criticisms, if it is as such that these comments are intended.

By: Dude writes kinda lazy

Dude writes kinda lazy — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 01:38:18 +0000

I’ve given myself the right to hate on people who don’t insert spaces after commas and full stops.

I didn’t come through your bedroom window,or knock on the door with a female voice sounding like someone who could be collecting charity money.

Not sure that “charity money” would be top of mind for me in that particular circumstance.