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March 18, 2005

Yup.

Kevin Drum can kiss my lilly white liberal ass:

Sure, there are plenty of battle hardened female opinion writers, but, by definition, we only see the ones who are comfortable in the fray — and their numbers are fairly small if Dahlia Lithwick's experience with comparative submission rates is any guide. I think a lot of women — the ones we don't hear from — really are put off by the tone and substance of opinion writing, and we do them a disservice by pretending they don't exist. There are plenty of issues in play here, and we should do our best to honestly identify all of them, not just our own favored subset.

Huh?

A lot of women are put off by the tone of opinion writing?

Apparently Drum doesn't get out much. Or at least doesn't bother to click his mouse to blogs that are written by women. Not only is there provocative opinion writing and biting commentary with original work, there's also outstanding political information and great writing.

Giving Kevin the benefit of the doubt, he probably just wants to understand why there's not more blog writing by women that make the "upper tier" blogs. It's a valid question, I suppose. But maybe Kevin could jump start things by making it a point to really take a look at what these women are writing and then LINKING IT TO IT.

Posted by Carla at March 18, 2005 11:26 AM