me and…Esther Dyson?
I gave a few quotes in the “Digital Democracy” issue of Mother Jones magazine about women and the political blogosphere. I basically said,
“I think that what has happened with political bloggers is that there is an elite class of political bloggers who are on par with the pundits on the Sunday-morning talk shows. On the Democratic side, they seem to be largely male. When people think of political bloggers, they think of this group of people-the main political bloggers that we all know. You have Firedoglake and Taylor Marsh and there are some other women, but by and large it is, similar to how men get quoted in the press more than women, bloggers who are male get quoted more than female bloggers. But then underneath it all you have this massive groundswell of women online who are blogging.”
And I went on with life because I assumed that more famous politically-oriented lefty women bloggers than I would certainly be interviewed for the article. Chris Nolan, Liza Sabater, Barbara O’Brien.
Then Sarah Granger on her blog Sairy.com brought up something that hadn’t even occurred to me. And I mean, how f**cked up is it that I am in the same company with ESTHER DYSON?? Only because we are the only two women interviewed in this pretty comprehensive overview of the online politics scene?
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