Are women better bloggers?
September 16th, 2005 by Bill
I’ve been visiting sites for so damn long I’ve lost track. Of course, sites come in all forms. I’m not talking about commercial sites, the Amazons and so on, but personal sites. You know, some schmo like me just tapping out his or her life for the world to take a gander at.
While not scientific by any means (I ain’t got no data), my sense is that women are far more interesting online than men. But is that true? Maybe I just find women’s blogs more interesting because they’re women?
Perhaps. But I don’t think so. And let me say, too, that three of the blogs I go to most often are by guys (The Bleat, Citizen of the Month, Seth Godin’s blog … though Seth’s is mostly about marketing and business, so it’s a bit of an exception.) Still, the first site/blog I ever went to was Pamie’s, way back when.
But women seem to be chattier and (sorry guys) with a couple of exceptions (The Bleat, Citizen of the Month) a lot funnier. And certainly more personal.
Which is kinda what they’re like in the real world. I remember years ago getting my hair done by a stylist I use to go to. She’d chat away about this and that. One day, she told me about her womb dropping and some operation she’d just had to remove it. I thought, “Holy moly lady! Look at who you’re talking to? What am I supposed to say to that?”
More alarming still, most of my friends seem to be women and I’ve often been out with them at dinners and so on. I’m the only guy there. The conversation begins and I can’t keep up. Hell, I can’t even follow the damn thing. They cover three or more topics simultaneously, often switching in mid-sentence. And I’m always going, “Who? What? Is that …?”
And they’re always sighing and saying things like, “Bill, please try and keep up.”
It gets worse. They talk about EVERYTHING. Especially about men.
“What was his penis like?”
“Kind of thin. But okay. Except it sort of goes off at a weird angle.”
It’s quite alarming. But incredibly interesting and entertaining. While it’s a bit cliche to say, and certainly stereotyping, I think women are just better at conversing than men. They communicate better. They’re more inclined to communicate. Men, on the other, just love to blog about politics, technology, sports … anything but themselves. I almost never see things like,
“What was her vagina like?”
“Well, it kinda felt like flying a 747 through the Grand Canyon. Still, it was okay.”
Guys just don’t write that kind of thing. At least, not without guffaws and elbows to the ribs, nudge nudge.
Anyway. I’ve concluded (unscientifically) that women are better bloggers.
(By the way … I’ve used the term “blog” a bit loosely. Sites like The Bleat aren’t blogs in the strictest sense - but they are.)
Tag: Blogs, Bloggers, Women, Communication
i couldn’t agree with you more
I am a man. But yes, I agree with you.
I wasn’t sure what kind of response I’d get (if any). It’s nice to know I’m not alone. And no one is calling me a weenie!
Are they better bloggers? Maybe, but don’t forget that for the most part, women are also more honest and oppinionated than men, they are more likely to actually say whats on their mind, and blogs being a non-contact form of idea sharing, the one on one aspect makes men more likely to spout off as well. Women blogs I also find deal more with the human aspect of things, while guys fixate on facts and stats, it makes for a nice change of view and a good perspective to take into consideration…..
“Well, it kinda felt like flying a 747 through the Grand Canyon. Still, it was okay.”
holy crap, i nearly just peed in my pants. but i definitely agree with meme - women bloggers are awesome.
We are MUCH better at pretty much everything. Just face it, guys.
Namaste.
~HDJ