Rappers and Bloggers - Separated at birth! By Josh Levin

TO: Josh Levin

Hi, Josh-

Interesting piece about rappers and bloggers, though we might be separated more by choice than by birth. I don’t think many gangstas would want to hang with my crowd. My site is called The-Goddess, so I guess you might say I’m the blogging equivalent of a Cherokee Queen Latifah.

Anyway, your timing is interesting. The word “circle jerk” has been used a lot in the liberal blogosphere this week. (There are actually 3 interconnected blogospheres – Eason Jordan was targeted by the Neocons, a lot of whom are paid by the Republicans, the liberals usually like to be called Progressives, and they brought you JimJeff GannonGuckert. The rest are primarily female diarists and they don’t bother anyone. ) The dust up this week had to do with one of your observations:

Women can't win an audience in either profession without raunching it up like Lil' Kim or Wonkette.

One blogger, Lauren at Feministe summed it up this way:

**NOTE - go to http://www.feministe.us/blog/ to see the graphic. Scroll down - you can't miss it.

It would be funny if it weren’t true.

I just wanted to mention that unlike Rap, there are lots of women bloggers. In fact, there’s a blogroll of over 450 women who blog about politics at What She Said! if we could only get the “circle-jerkers” to let people know we’re out here.

Hint, hint *wink

Peace

Morgaine Swann

Thanks to Mad Kane, who is mentioned in the article, for the heads up.

SO, anybody else got a windmill for me to tilt at before I put my white horse in the barn for the night - ha ha!? I'm just gettin' warmed up...