Michael Leon blogs at http://malcontends.blogspot.com. Michael is a writer living in Madison, Wisconsin. His writing has appeared nationally in The Progressive, In These Times, OpEdNews.com, and CounterPunch.
Wisconsin Lacks Women Writers on Politics
Posted July 30th, 2008 by mal contends
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Update: Voices too often missing in op-ed land: women's
via mal contends - One of my favorite political sites is WiscOpinion.
But take a look at WiscOpinion and you see a disturbing trend, echoed across the state: Few women writers expressing their political views in blogs.
It's not sexism by WiscOpinion or any other site, it's a lack of women expressing their voices.
Consider another of my favorite sites: Uppity Wisconsin.
I know women writers here, but they write under a pseudomyn, safety being an obvious concern.
There are notable exceptions:
- Milwaukee Rising
- Lost Albatross
- Dane 101
But they are the exceptions. And that's a shame.
Below is WiscOpinion's writers for 7/29/2008; note that some nine-in-ten writers is male.
Not sure what the solution is, but it is most definitely a problem.
7/29/2008
:::PM LINKS:::
Tim Schilke: Not accounting for reality?
Bill Wineke: We have to clean up our lakes
Russell Wallace: Jim Doyle leaving, Barbara Lawton to become governor!
Chris Lato: The GOP joins the Twitter generation
Eric Wentz: Use oil, coal and natural gas now
Mike Ivey: State ranks high for drinking, not for workforce talent
Christa Westerberg: Two steps forward and one step back
Steve Jagler: Imagine: Milwaukee the tax haven?
Michael Rosen: Wisconsin's prison costs crowd out higher education
George Lightbourn: Where are we going?
J.B. Van Hollen: Standing up for public safety in the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Don Pridemore: Virtual schools: Allowing technology and education to come together
Tom Foley: Leading Wisconsin blogger fails U.S. Constitution
Greg Kowalski: A nice comfy trip to Florida in January for free?
:::AM LINKS:::
James Wigderson: Get the lead out!
Dave Zweifel: Minimum markup helps the little guy
Owen Robinson: A gas retailer’s perspective
Ed Garvey: Election polls galore, who do you trust?
Chris Liebenthal: Going BaNaNas
Tracy Coenen: The Blog Net News controversy
John F. Ebbott: County stiffs the poor
William L. McReynolds: Tight economic times require tough choices
Roger Frank Bass: Still scared after all these years
John Nichols: Putting the "I" word on the agenda
Don Huebscher: Eau Claire arena questions far outnumber the answers
Susan Armacost: Abortion ban and human rights
Judy Kirkwood: A proactive Sunday drive
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There's me ...
But I guess I don't write frequently enough. I'll try to remedy that.
I suspect you've identified part of the reason in your post
As a matter of policy WisOpinion doesn't include anything from anonymous bloggers. Many of the female bloggers choose to post under pseudonyms. Therefore, they never show up on WisOpinion. This is why many of the bloggers (including all the women that I can think of) on Uppity Wisconsin are never quoted in WisOpinion. They seem to not want to do so even if their biography on the site identifies their name (for example, they never used to ever include me until I changed my login name from shanson to Steve Hanson.
Steve Hanson
Cruiskeen Consulting LLC
Uppity Wisconsin
self-absolution, it's a beautiful thing ain't it dude?
well thanks for that.
at least the male writer pontificates for all of us and declares that "there is no sexism among politcal males in WI", that women are just.....weak? afraid? not eequal to the task?
There is no sexism.
Thanks again, I'll make a note of that in my littel Life Experience book. Silly ol' me, I imagined it all.
*faint*
and as to the Obedient Chick who responds with "oh noes! do I not measure up? I'll try to do better" Whatta putz.
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