Pen-Elayne on the Web

Celebrating Women - 9 March 2004

It's self-proctology day - hooray for us! Please check out Ezra Klein's Where Have All the Good Women Gone? query at Pandagon, "about the shocking lack of liberal female bloggers," and all the responses to his entry that assure him we're really not shockingly lacking at all. If you don't see your name, or the name of a liberal female blogger, on the thread already, feel free to join in and add some more, I'd like to shore up my "Blogs in Waiting" bookmarks a bit. The Campaign Desk notes there's only one female-run blog in TTLB's top 20, but I see two (Ana Marie Cox and Jeralyn Merritt), and that's not even counting all the female guest bloggers Atrios has used. (Don't look at me, I'm #463 at present...) Considering that political blogging may be more of a male thing (and cultural/personal blogging perhaps more of a female thing), I think a 10% representation at the top tier is pretty good. Update: Much thanks and big sloppy wet kisses to Kevin Hayden and Christine Cupaiuolo for their lovely plugs, as well as to Jude Camwell, who mentions me and a whole lot of other female bloggers both on Iddybud and her Syracuse blog The Rational Liberal.