Gender Bias in the Blogosphere
Edited for detail, context, and clarity--
One of the latest big stories (memes?) in the greater blogosphere is to select the 20 greatest figures in American history. The deadline has passed, but I think many bloggers are making a list anyway. Some of the people who are getting nods are making me cringe: an honorable mention for Rush Limbaugh?! Anyway, I'm glad Meryl Yourish points out the exclusion of women in most of the lists. She calls it what it is--sexism in the blogosphere:
Which brings me back to the women. I say again, there is definitely a boys' club in the blogosphere, and this list is entered into evidence as Exhibit A. There are a lot of bloggers on that list who have some pretty thoughtul, well-researched posts. But they couldn't see fit to include a single woman?
Yeah, there's something wrong with that picture. Sexism in the blogosphere, again. [links in original]
Cross-posted at Kairosnews.
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Women in American History
Clancy, you thought women actually contributed to American history?! You've been doing too many drugs, babe. ;-)
defining "American history"
For some reason, this meme never really traveled very far into liberal or left political blogs (Rush Limbaugh!?). I haven't had enough caffiene this morning to figure out why--or if it would be productive to engage it. Certainly these kinds of lists often say more about their writers than the figures in the lists....Might be an interesting way to learn more about people's disciplinary frameworks, their definitions of American history, etc.
the chutry experiment