A Little Girl Talk from Home

Hey-ho, as my good friend and leadership author, Lee Thayer, is wont to say when he emails me...

It's heading on toward Friday, yay! This has been an outstanding week. Full of excitement - with my interview at Fortune's blog, Business Insider, and signing a new client, and finally connecting with Mike Moore, over at Purina. (you've all visited the petblog, right - Scratchings and Sniffings?). And, today we had a GREAT meeting with Dawn and Charla over at the Simon School about their blog. (you've all been to their blog, right?)

And now... more excitement. Kim Krause Berg mentioned me on her  Cre8pc blog! I get all excited when folks mention me on the net. Especially when it's in reference to women and women's issues. Here's what Kim was saying, and why she included me in her outstanding list of women bloggers,

What Do All These “Popular” Bloggers Have in Common?

I decided to see what are considered “the most popular blog posts” in today’s Google Blogoscoped blog piece titled Popular Blog Posts.

Every single blogger featured was a man.

That turned me off. No women? There’s so many brilliant, creative, contributing, fun women bloggers. Of the MILLIONS of blogs, this list focused on men?

Hmmm...I have to agree with Kim. Where are the women? The post says it asked some women, but doesn't say who, and that the women didn't get back to them. Michele Malkin added a comment saying her question got lost in her email, and then said blogging is non-gender.

Oh please! Blogging is so gender focused!

For gosh sakes, EVERYTHING is gender focused, that's why we have genders!!!

I'm a girl - Tom is a boy - we live together. We operate a business together. And everything we do is gender based. Whether it's intended to be, or not! I do things differently - partly because of my gender, partly because of my personality. He does things differently - cause he's a guy. Oops, that's the kind of gender talk that gets criticized. But, I'm not deleting it because it's true - boys will be boys and girls with be girls and you CANNOT ignore that fact.

I'm willing to say there are lots of times when girls act like boys and boys act like girls. Sometimes on purpose. I don't care. The truth of the matter is - we exist in a world that is gender based - it's necessary for pro-creation. Since that's so - and since girls and boys have different body parts, different brain chemistry, and different roles they need to play in the universal order of things, you cannot escape the fact that gender counts. Just ask Michele Miller.

Yes, even in blogging. Blogs by women are different than blogs by men. I don't have space or time to go into the details - just read a couple of dozen blogs by men then read a couple of dozen by women - find some that focus on the same topic. If you don't see a difference in voice (most of the time, not all of the time) - well, you need to see someone about that. Cause, there is a difference - and it isn't all hidden by clothes!

Ahem! I'm done ranting. Off to other pursuits - like shopping!