The Internet is So Scary!

The two Eds--Morrissey and Driscoll--take down Ellen Goodman’s column in which she laments the male “bias” of the political blogosphere and claims that women are intimidated by the “angry white male(ness)” of it:

Who knows how many women are scared silent[?]

All I have to say about Goodman’s opinion is…

Absinthe & Cookies
Ann Althouse
Anchoress
La Shawn Barber
Tammy Bruce
Beth C.
Cal Tech Girl
The Cotillion
Beth Donovan
Connie du Toit
Rosemary Esmay
Gates of Vienna
Mary Katharine Ham
Arianna Huffington
Sondra K.
Little Miss Attila
Rachel Lucas
Michelle Malkin (and then there's her other blog)
Jeralyn Merritt
Moxie
Neo-neocon
Obsidian Wings
Samantha Pierce
Helen Smith (Reynolds)
Mahndisa Rigmaiden
Shay Riley
Pat Santy
Villainous Company
Fausta Wertz
Sergeant Wilks
Angela Winters
Zombie

And, of course, yours truly (see the comments).

Trust me. These ladies (and their co-bloggers) aren’t discussing kittens and ice cream. And I Pity The Fool^TM who would try to intimidate any of them, especially Ms. Bruce or Mrs. du Toit (and not just because of who Connie is married to, either.)

Ellen Goodman needs to get her "eyes" checked.

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Amy Alkon
Amy Ridenour
Allison Kaplan Sommer
Meryl Yourish

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LauraW
Adriana Cronin
Darleen's Place
Atlas Shrugs
The Outraged Spleen of Zion
Exit Zero
Electric Venom
Redsugar Muse
Sisu
Maia Lazar

And Maia's mother, Cathy Seipp (RIP)

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Making Light

Suffice it to say, we ain't scared.

UPDATE: Check out the comments section to discover more of us "poor, intimidated" distaff bloggers.

Comments

[Malcolm Kirkpatrick]

Aloha, Juliette,

LauraW at Ace of Spades

Adriana Cronin at Samizdata.net

[Beth]

Amen, Juliette!

Maybe she's projecting. ;-)

[Mrs. du Toit]

Intimidated by the angry white maleness of it?

Heh. That is funny.

I find the angriness of it the best part, white, not white, or female. It is the unfiltered opinions of the every man (and every woman).

Since it is a completely open medium (even for free if you use free blogging software) perhaps the outcome of fewer women in the political blogging arena is because fewer women (to men) discuss politics?

Gee, what a concept, eh? People writing about what interests them and that translating into statistics.

Who ARE these people who make such silly and unfounded assertions? Tell me this woman is fiction, PLEASE, because no one is really that stupid.

It's a big white male conspiracy, once again keeping women from the front parlor. Oh, please. Maybe the women were just not interested in talking about what the men were talking about. That is such a tired meme.

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

[Pablo]

Darleen's Place

Atlas Shrugs

The Outraged Spleen of Zion

Exit Zero

Michele

Redsugar Muse

Sisu

And let's not forget the recently departed Cathy Seipp, who nobody was gonna chase off of the intertubes.

And with that, Maia Lazar

And that's just off the top of my head.

[Pablo]

Oh, and while I won't bother with the links, there's Marcotte, Feministe, Feministing, Shakepeare's Sister, Trish Wilson, and the loons at Firedoglake led by Jane Hamsher.

[baldilocks]

Thanks Malcolm and Pablo!

Pablo: I don't think Michele is blogging anymore, unfortunately.

[Tully]

Don't forget Shay at Booker Rising!

Go ahead and call her a wimp. Tell her how she's intimidated by all that "angry white maleness." C'mon. I dare you.

[Tully]

Oops, NOW I see Shay listed. My bad. So let me sub in Theresa Nielsen Hayden of the Making Light blog. Same dare.

[baldilocks]

Tully: thanks. And you knew that I would be unable to leave Shay out.

[Amy Alkon]

I've been online since the early 90s, and had a website since 1998, and I've been blogging since 2003. And, by the way, I got my first computer in 1985, a Mac, through University of Michigan's student discount program.

And here's a comment I recently left on an entry on ShinyShiny complaining about women being harrassed on the Internet:

http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2007/08/are_women_reall.html

As a syndicated advice columnist who regularly pisses people off, I'm sometimes threatened (usually via e-mail) with rape, violence and death. I call the duty officer at the FBI and report it. They also have an Internet crime center at the FBI.

But, other than threats of violence, the rest of them I post on my blog -- let the air and my commenters get to them.

Quite frankly, ladies, if you can't stand the heat...well, you know.

Oh yeah, on my blog, I'm anti-god, anti-taxes for school for other people's children, anti taxes for NPR, anti-Iraq war (but pro-going after Bin Laden and flattening Afghanistan), pro-Bush health care plan, anti-socialist health care, pro equal rights for all (meaning I'm for fair treatment for men), etc., etc.

Do I sound intimidated?

Oh yeah...did I mention that I'm a combative bitch? And I mean that in the nicest way.

[Amy Alkon]

And don't forget Debbie Schlussel, who not only blogs, in the most in-your-face way, about the increasing danger from the Islamists, but has infiltrated Islamist gatherings in Detroit.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/

Somebody should remind her to be a little more timid.

[Linda F]

Count me in - I was so incensed, I wrote Ms. Goodman to inform her that her column was indicative of the ignorance of the liberal press.

[Beth]

Typepad hates Wordpress trackbacks, but I linked to ya in my post. :)

[Beth]

Add Zendo Deb from TFS Magnum, too! She's definitely not frightened into silence!

[1389]

Have you noticed that everybody hates to be around a crybaby - even other crybabies? Anybody old enough to talk who is still a crybaby ought to be ashamed!

I'm a conservative female blogger, and I'm the admin of two blogs that focus primarily on antijihadist/counterterrorist news and views, with tech tools and tips to help the conservative activist. I don't make any secret of the fact that I'm female, but on the other hand, I haven't had occasion to mention it on these blogs thus far, for the simple reason that the blogs are not about me!

My primary blog is at http://1389blog.com and is called 1389 Blog - Antijihadist Tech. It was formerly at http://moblog1389.blogspot.com but was recently migrated to self-hosted WordPress, partly to gain the ability to add more features, and partly because some Blogger blogs on counterterrorist issues had been mislabeled as spam and had been shut down for varying periods of time.

I also have another, less formal, blog at http://1389moblog.blogspot.com, where I post interesting notes and links that you may feel free to use.

EVERY blogger who takes a principled stand (and even some who don't) runs a risk of being spammed, stalked, threatened, or trashed with bots and malware. It goes with the territory. There are various computer security tools you can use to help you manage the risk. Risk and conflict are part of life!

[Pablo]

And don't forget Debbie Schlussel, who not only blogs, in the most in-your-face way, about the increasing danger from the Islamists, but has infiltrated Islamist gatherings in Detroit.

Ah! How could I forget mi amiga ciaospirit/hourglass1941 who has made her bones jamming her videocamera and some tough questions into the faces of CAIR-bots, Code Pinkos and other assorted dissembling dreck?

Suffice it to say, we ain't scared.

Nope, nor interested in being victims. Y'all do us proud, Ladies.

[Mrs. du Toit]

Perhaps the reason some women feel they're attacked online more than men is because they react to it more strongly. Men grow up jostling and threatening. Women aren't used to it.

Kim has received an untold number of death threats. I've had a few, but not nearly the number he's gotten. Most are just blithering idiots.

If they are more vile and direct threats, I respond the same way he does, "Bring a gun. Don't miss because I won't."

The strangest thing is that we never hear from them again.

[kat-missouri]

You know, maybe we are content to be who we are and our modest linkage?
I mean, when you become a "big" blog you have got to really commit to the posting or lose it.

I've posted both personal, philosophical and serious world event analysis. The blog is for my expression, not necessarily trying to break into the main stream media. Plenty of male bloggers have linked.

Then again, some of my better posts have gotten some decent links and visitation. But not necessarily "instalaunched" or quoted on Fox/CNN/etc.

I guess it depends on what you want from blogging.

[Amy Alkon]

Heh heh...loved that "Bring a gun" crack, Mrs. du T.

Reminds me of advice Emmanuelle Richard (emmanuelle.net) got after she did really well in target practice on the gun range. The instructor suggested she put up the bullseye on the garage door of the house she shares with her husband Matt Welch, with the sign:

"Tresspassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again."

[baldilocks]

I like Mrs. dT's response too.

I get trolls, but have only received two threats in the four years that I've been blogging (must be something about a chick who has her head shaved).

My response to the two: "Come on with it. I live in South Central LA. I'll tell my neighbors that you're coming and we'll have a 'party' in your honor."

[baldilocks]

Beth: I'm usually indisposed on Sunday mornings and I have my trackbacks set for user approval. It's there now.

[Sissy Willis]

Same old, same old:

Well meaning but totally out of touch

Pablo: Thanks for the memories. :-)

[mahndisa]

08 11 07

Hehhehe show you right Baldilocks!!! hehehehhe And I will add a coupla women scientists to the pot here:

Theorema Egregium -Christine Dantas

Kea- Marni Dee Sheppeard

[InRussetShadows]

Strangely enough, most of the bloggers I know are female. Here they are...
Always On Watch
DU D'rat Review
Neocon Command Center
Long Range
The Merry Widow
Smart Lass
Woman Honor Thyself

[Jill]

I'm right in Ellen's neighborhood and I've been blogging almost since 2003 at

Business of Life www.estatevaults.com/bol
Legacy Matters www.estatevaults.com/lm

Kudos for putting all these women bloggers together.

[Richard Cook]

Can someone please shut Goodman up!! She pops out of her malfunctioning way back machine, takes a dump in front of us and expects us to say "don't that smell nice". Shut up already!!

[Ith]

[waves] how have you been? I feel like I haven't talked to you in ages, which, maybe I haven't :)

Nearly six years blogging, and every single one of them as a girl [g] Obviously, I'm terrified!

[baldilocks]

Ith:

I feel like I haven't talked to you in ages, which, maybe I haven't

That is so. I have a picture of you in my mind: little, medium brown-haired person.

What's going on, girl? :-)

[Ith]

Nothing too much :) Will be moving out of state hopefully by the new year, but otherwise, same job, same town.