Not to be indelicate, but seeing as the male/female blogging ratio is somewhat skewed (not nearly as skewed as other forms of geekdom, mind you), when someone happens to be offering what is apparently a demented fusion of group blogging, cybersex and reality show-style elimination rounds and apparently there are three times as many women as men signing up for it… well, I think that it’s time to have that conversation again about the differences between sex, gender and preference. Not that there’s anything wrong, of course, about (for example) a bunch of guys sitting around a virtual table pretending to be lesbians; their business, not mine. The myriad kinks and quirks of human sexuality hardly default to being my concern.
It’s just that all of the ones readily available on the Internet seem so odd, sometimes. Not to mention never, ever talked about.
(Via Kikuchiyo)
Moe
So…. did you sign up yet?
One note, Moe. The blog male/female ratio isn’t as skewed as you think, or may well be skewed the other way. Remember that the vast preponderance of blogs are things like the average LiveJournal, not sites like ObWi. Here are LiveJournal’s stats — 2/3rds of the bloggers (more than a million) are female. Sometime when away from work if you want to research this phenomenon, go to such fine, upstanding communities as “showyourboobs” or “camwh*res” and realize that the Web is crawling with women who will do most anything in a self-defeating attempt to raise self-esteem, or just because they think it’s hot.
Also on a related note, there’s apparently a controversy going on at Smith College over just having feminine pronouns in the constitution, since Smith is a college of “one sex, many genders.” God bless that place. You haven’t lived until you’ve seen Smith karaoke night.
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The Words That Took Us There — this is an excerpt of the full dissertation I think, the full version was online at one point but I can’t find it at the moment. I played Cybersphere (the game referenced there) back in the day (and played as a female character or two as well). Ended up being too demanding of my time to keep up without degenerating into internet hermitdom, but it was fun at the time. I don’t think my female characters fooled anyone, but hey, it was a change of pace.