LJ and gender

[badgerbag]

I think "LiveJournal" has become or maybe always was code for "female" aka hysterical hissy fit throwing girly catfighters who are by definition talking about something annoying trivial and overblown. It's good to remember that! /sarcasm

Comments

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was struck by that not only in the current RaceFail-related stuff but in a recent Huffington Post article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/02/meghan-mccain-overshares_n_171194.html) about Meghan McCain's dating woes.

But then, are any of us surprised at women's diaries/journaling tools being seen as inherently trivial and lacking in worth? Sigh.

[badgerbag.livejournal.com]

There was a brilliant post here

If Only Someone Owned the Goddamned servers (http://transformativeworks.org/news/scansdaily-tosed-livejournal-if-only-someone-owned-goddamned-servers) heavily quoting Lisa Fortuner (http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/03/just-past-the-horizon-the-male-space-is-just-better-hidden/) on gender and online spaces. really amazing points.

[bossymarmalade.livejournal.com]

Thanks for linking that -- I saw it briefly when we had a huge discussion over at Sequential Tart about scans_daily going down, but was too distracted by RaceFail to allocate attention to it, heh!