...asks Margaret Wente in today's Globe & Mail.
My first thought: Kate McMillan won't like that. My second thought: can we expect another post in her tiresome "Not Waiting for the Asteroid" series? If this keeps on, she might actually have a point.
Commenter "pipesdreams," in any case, has done all the heavy lifting necessary:
If the author had bothered to do any research at all, she would have seen that the statistics from popular blogging communities beg to differ. See: LiveJournal's gender divide http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml that shows 63% of women more likely to maintain a blog versus 37% of men.
But here's Wente, who sounds personally stung:
Perhaps you've noticed that most of the comments on these websites are not terribly sophisticated. They contain a large insult quotient, even when they come from people with advanced degrees.
Surely not.
And:
All you have to do is write "Margaret Wente is an idiot" and hit send. Instant gratification!
This time I managed to restrain myself. :)
