women and political blogs

Chris Bowers over at the MyDD has recently been wondering about the relative dearth of women on the major political blogs. He speculated about it earlier this month, and this weekend posted a followup bringing up an interesting finding: the lefty blogs are "clumped" into two separate groups. There's a good discussion going on there, and more discussion of that post on dailykos, which linked to it.

In the earlier post, I noted that while political blogs skew heavily male, blogging as a whole is mostly female. And in the newest post, I quoted Howard Dean in relating the cliquishness of our lefty blogs to what I call Affirmative Action for blogs.

Since this community is on LiveJournal, where women outnumber men by about two to one, it is one of the few mostly political blogs I participate in that is not male-dominated. So I hope some of you will come on over the MyDD and participaate in this discussion.