I was very curious at first by this conference for “women bloggers”, dubbed The BlogHer Conference. With the tagline “Where the women bloggers are”, the BlogHer’s mission is “to create opportunities for women bloggers to pursue exposure, education, and community.”
Hmmmm….
This implies, to me, that female bloggers need some sort of additional assistance to become successful at blogging. Although men are welcome to be BlogHers, too, I’m wondering whether a community for bloggers, based on gender, will actually help the female agenda or whether it will only serve to highlight “gender” where in fact the differentiation did not exist before.
Blogging has been a great gender-neutral zone as far as I am concerned. In the blogging world, it’s the quality of your writing and the subject matter you write about that will determine your success / popularity. I do not make my favourite bloglist based on a blogger’s gender, nor do I discriminate against any blogger just because the blogger is not a “blogHer” (and another thing, this gender-based term is really unnecessary). While my perception of certain issues are flavoured by my gender and the gender-specific roles I play – as a female, a wife, a Mom, I have strong views on polygamy and equal opportunities in the workplace – my other pieces of writing are non-gender based. And how I run my blog (I had two previous blogs before this one) is independent of the fact that I am female. It is only dependent on the tech knowledge that I have.
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