Blogging For Girls by Quiet Riot Girl – in response to Margaret Wente of Canada’s Globe and Mail, who wrote ‘Why Are Bloggers Male‘?
“She thinks blogging is ‘a guy thing’, like driving a snowmobile up a mountain ‘at 120 miles per hour’ is a guy thing (for James Bond maybe). According to Wente, women don’t share men’s urge to ‘spit out an opinion about current affairs every 20 minutes‘. And, as all phenomena in the (post)modern world are explained, Wente says the blogging gender divide is caused by a syndrome: ‘Male Answer Syndrome’. This ‘sexual’ syndrome explains everything apparently, from boys putting their hands up before girls in Maths lessons (do they??) to women being quiet at dinner parties (are they??), to women’s so-called inhibitions about writing stuff and posting it online.
Well worth checking out, especially since the brand-new SheThought site will be launched on the blogging-carnival day for Ada Lovelace (‘Finding Ada’)! March 24 for Ada Lovelace Day (tomorrow!) involves:
An international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.
Speaking of which – the podcast for Skeptically Speaking which features Heidi Anderson (the creator of SheThought) is now out.
In other RSS-friendly-finds,
Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics -
“In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? A new research report by AAUW presents compelling evidence that can help to explain this puzzle. Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics presents in-depth yet accessible profiles of eight key research findings that point to environmental and social barriers – including stereotypes, gender bias and the climate of science and engineering departments in colleges and universities – that continue to block women’s participation and progress in science, technology, engineering, and math.”
Rudy T. pitches controversial ‘pain relief’ sticker – spoiler, it’s a hologram…
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Wow. That’s some serious stereotyping. Of men, of women, and of blogs and bloggers. All without any facts to support her argument.
Also, it amuses me greatly that Wendt doesn’t realise that what she does is blogging.
Quiet Riot Girl’s response is excellent.
A couple of years ago, I made a tribute to Hypatia of Alexandria and many other women in science.
Women in science ROCK!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF8h_Oe5XBM
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