Female bloggers...one rants about white male blogs!

Is the Internet becoming the new "old boys' network"?

If you're to believe the rantings of a female blogger who writes for the Insight section of the Daily Breeze, yes.

In an article titled, "A Woman's place on the blogs?", a female blogger alleges that a typical blog reader is actually a 43-year-old white man with an annual family income of $80,000.00.

Based on this statement (without any back-up with hard, cold facts), she argues:

"No wonder Hillary Clinton only got 9% backing in online activist polls while garnering more than 40% in traditional ones."

Her article was supposed to focus on "A Woman's place on the blogs".

But, you don't even have to read between the lines to get the impression that her commentary is a Manifesto against men on net.

She's based part of her argument on a graduate student's spreadsheet that alleges that of 90 top political web blogs, 40% are edited and written by men only, only 7% by the female gender.

Is her source material that credible or worthy of note?

She says that the Internet trend may have something to do with the fact boys raised their hands first in class.

They did? (who says...)

Then, the pundit (?) wildly theorizes that educated, economically comfortable men were early adopters of the technology - so, therefore took the lead on the World-Wide-Web.

She fumes, "...but it's not about counting, not just about diversity-in-numbers. It's about political dialogue - who gets heard and who sets the agenda."

At this point, she's just about foaming at the mouth.

After the "tracking of maleness in the media" (her words, not mine), she concludes, "The chief messengers are overwhelmingly men - white men, even angry white men."

What a sweeping generalization. Based on what facts?

Her opening remarks say it all:

"It boggles my mind to realize how quickly a piece of Internet terrain has gained power in politics. By now, the political blogosphere is to the left of what talk radio is to the right. It is a forceful, sometimes demagogic, message-monger organizing tool for the progressive end of the Democratic party."

In the final analysis, this woman slings mud (and propaganda) just as well as the rest of 'em.

Miss, you can lead a horse to water...but you can't make him drink.

This article should have been captioned, "Envious Blogger rants"...