Where Are All The Female Bloggers? Part Three: in which I gently & affectionately patronise the boys

[miss_s_b]

In my relentless carping about how people don't pay attention to female bloggers, one thing I neglected to take full account of is that the cycle of the blokosphere not paying attention to women is largely self-perpetuating. There follow a number of gross generalisations:

• Bloggers, when they first start compiling a reading list, look for bloggers who they like instinctively. This is likely to boil down to someone who appears to think like me
• For male bloggers, this regularly involves randomly adding male bloggers to their list, and skipping over the females, regardless of whether or not the blogger's sex is apparent from their name.
• Sometimes they ask for recs. Their largely male circle recs them largely male blogs
• The cycle continues

The reason that a lot of male bloggers have SOME female bloggers on their lists is that there are some women who write like men. I'm one of them. awesomegore is another.

What can be done about this? Well, boys, I'm going to rec you some female blogs. Regardless of my detestment of positive discrimination (see the post I will be making later today on rules versus guidelines for why this absolutely is not ironic at all, honest guv), it strikes me that you poor little lads can't be expected to go and LOOK for female blogs; you need someone to wave them in your face because your male privilege tells you that if anything is really important, it will be handed to you on a plate. Consider this blog post (and hopefully the comments to it) your plate.

There are more recs in the comments, as well as interesting discussions on the nature of blogging, and boys asserting that they actually do read blogs by women in a not-at-all-predictable way ;)

The List

This list is a by-no-means-exhaustive list of fabulous blogs that I know to be written wholly or mostly by women, currently active and not f-locked, and always interesting. I don't always agree with the content of them, but it's always worth reading. Where I know of it, I have given the Dreamwidth syndicated feed link. Most of these also have syndication on LJ. I present them in alphabetical order for your delectation:

• Alix Mortimer (also available at alix_mortimer_feed)
• the Angry Black Woman (also available at theangryblackwoman_feed)
• But you're a girl! (also available at but_youre_a_girl_feed)
• Charlotte Gore (also available at charlotte_gore_feed and sometimes masquerading as awesomegore)
• Feminist Mums (also available at feminist_mums_feed)
• GeekaChicas (also available at geeka_chicas_feed
• the Hathor Legacy (also available at hathorlegacy_feed)
• innerbrat (also available at innerbrat)
• lizw (also available at lizw)
• nanila
• PC Bloggs (also available at pc_bloggs_feed)
• Penny Red (also available at pennyred_feed
• pickwick (also available at pickwick
• Pink Stinks (also available at pink_stinks_feed)
Sara Bedford (also available at sara_bedford_feed)
• Stephanomics (also available at stephanomics_feed)
• strangefrontier

I'm dead set certain I have left off some important ones, even out of the ones I already read, because my method for selection was to go down my reading list and copy and paste the ones that jumped out. Do feel free to berate me if you are one of those left out, and leave a nicely formatted link for the boys to follow.

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