What about Lileks? While they might not be a blog, his bleats come pretty damn close and get some wide play.

I didn't think of Lileks, since he doesn't post in a normal blog format. He is an exception; I'm sure there are others.

Several of the top male bloggers--Dean Esmay, Dodd Harris, Stephen Green--have posted on reasonably personal matters. It's just not as central to their blogs as it is for most of the top female bloggers.

I'm not arguing that women should hide their gender or sexuality, merely that if their sexuality is part of their blog conversation then it's a part of the conversation within the blogosphere.

Megan McArdle is stunningly good looking. It almost never comes into the discussion about her blog posts, though, because it's not a part of her blog. Her posts are almost entirely analytical (indeed, more so than mine, in that I've got at least occasional pop culture stuff and other low-substance material) and the reaction to them is almost entirely on the analysis.

"This isn’t a function of women’s opinions getting less respect than men’s but rather the fact that the list is dominated by political blogs, a category which naturally attracts more male writers."

What a bunch of BS.

Women write about politics as much, but they do so more quietly, and usually with less interest in celebrating death and destruction...and with less pontificating. Probably because women weren't encouraged to play with toy soldiers when they were younger, so they don't carry this fixation into their adulthood. Unlike so many of the guys.

Most of the guys who write about politics do so because this is their last chance to be the jock at the school prom.

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