New Theory: Fish in a Barrel
You start with a group of around a hundred or so men who only link to each other and throw a scrap here or there to a pool of about 500 women. The men get lots of links and lots of attention. They go on TV and get even more attention from people who don't normally frequent the blogosphere.
The 500+ women are all writing and linking to the small group guys( which helps them because there are so many women), and to each other, but because there are so many women bloggers, no one woman (except maybe some young, hot D.C. babe who looks good on TV and makes the producers seem all concerned with diversity) gets the kind of concentration of links that the men do.
The men get all impressed with themselves because they get attention and links and publicity, and sit around in a permanent circle jerk, praising and trying to impress each other, contemplating their navels and wondering why there are no women with as many links as they have.
The women then go berserk, but the men don't know that because they only read other men in their little barrel, but their cluelessness gets them LOTS of links because there are So Many Women Bloggers who want them to get a clue.
Of course, that's just a theory. Like Evolution. I could be wrong.
posted by Morgaine @ 11:02 AM
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In all fairness to males, when have they ever gotten any clue given to them by women? You could write it in very plain english, in large letters, on a poster board, and tape it to their computer, and they would still NOT get it.
Okay, I'm done male bashing for this morning. :)
I have to agree...no matter how much we like having them around from time to time...men are generally clueless as to the inner workings or outer workings of the work as it relates to people. We could attach a remote control to our blogs to see if they click it?
If we had a remote control involved, they'd click on us, but they wouldn't stay long enough to read anything - ha ha!
I was wondering, if I should get bored by the 100 fish in a barrel theme, but no, of course not. The debate gets better and better. And I love the babe triggers diversity worry reflex.
Here's an idea. How about we quit commenting on men's blogs unless they comment on ours? And of course, make an effort to comment more on other women's blogs?
"Why are we still making deals with men one by one instead of collectively demanding what we need?" -the late Andrea Dworkin
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