Comments on: Another Round on the Dearth of Female Bibliobloggers?

By: New Meme Response: Top 5 Female Biblical Scholars « Ecce Homo

New Meme Response: Top 5 Female Biblical Scholars « Ecce Homo — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:12:58 +0000

[...] wrapped up in the quagmire surrounding female scholars in the biblioblogosphere (see here,here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here), I will point out that I wish these [...]

By: Listening to Women’s Voices « kata ta biblia

Listening to Women’s Voices « kata ta biblia — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:15:10 +0000

[...] ~Sonja (but read Sue’s valid response) [Sonja's blog] [...]

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:07:04 +0000

We have a hard time being as focused as men. And men have a hard time reading all that “twaddle”

Is someone suggesting that men don’t both post and read twaddle?

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:10:27 +0000

I agree with you, Patrick.

By: sonja

sonja — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:57:18 +0000

Hi Patrick … I’m late to this conversation for any number of reasons, life, mostly. Which is, I think, one of the main reasons that there is such a dearth of female bibliobloggers out there.

It’s just life happening. Most women are multi-taskers and that shows in their blogs. If you read my blog or Julie’s or Makeesha’s or any of women in my blog roll (listed under Galadriel on my blog) you’ll find all kinds of different posts from theology to dinner to shopping to health care to breast feeding. We have a hard time being as focused as men. And men have a hard time reading all that “twaddle”. They want some assurance about what’s going to be at a given blog every day. This is not a hard and fast rule by any means, but I think it is a general tendency which effects the way women blog and the way men read. I don’t think either way is good or bad or better … it’s just what is. I read both and enjoy both.

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:28:37 +0000

I think I more or less agree with this.

By: Emerging Women » Blog Archive » Where Are the Women Bloggers?

Emerging Women » Blog Archive » Where Are the Women Bloggers? — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:35:58 +0000

[...] to relate to blogging in general and not the vast discrepancy in biblical studies specifically. I suggested that there may be a perceived risk to blogging which professionally academic women do not want to [...]

By: Biblioblogging Women: Don’t Blame the Victim « The Biblioblog Top 50

Biblioblogging Women: Don’t Blame the Victim « The Biblioblog Top 50 — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:38:19 +0000

[...] blanks in any way you deem appropriate. Again, these extremists are only the more visible tip of a complex religo-cultural problem, one for which we should resist the urge to simplify or essentialize with generalizing [...]

By: Patrick George McCullough

Patrick George McCullough — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:24:21 +0000

Thanks, BT50. I saw the response and appreciate the quote provided on “margins.”

By: J. K. Gayle

J. K. Gayle — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:39:16 +0000

“I do think there’s a dimension of blogging that requires a healthy dose of ego, something not traditionally encouraged in females.”
–Julia M. O’Brien

“blah. they dont blog because they dont want to. thats all.”
–Jim, making Julia’s point