tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post808405620899667697..comments2024-03-12T22:31:46.500-04:00Comments on What Would Phoebe Do?: The meek shall inherit the blogsPhoebe Maltz Bovyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-65323545058374176852007-09-12T00:00:00.000-04:002007-09-12T00:00:00.000-04:00Two points1--In a democracy, there is no shame in ...Two points<BR/><BR/>1--In a democracy, there is no shame in questioning authority, and in voicing one's opinion. And if there is anything in life you should express an opinion about, even if uneducated, it is the political, so if nothing else, you and those around you can become wiser.<BR/><BR/>2--Guys like politics because its a lot like sports. You have teams, and you have winners and losers, and it probably goes back to something Marshall McCluhan said.<BR/>Women don't care so much about sports.<BR/><BR/>(and oh yes, l'shannah tovah)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7146512.post-71239480923854791732007-09-09T15:55:00.000-04:002007-09-09T15:55:00.000-04:00That seems about right, in my experience. I try to...That seems about right, in my experience. I try to avoid blogging about politics because I lack the expertise to say anything useful. The only political thing I regularly blog about is education, which I feel qualified to address only insofar as I have one too. <BR/><BR/>However, another aspect of this question might be that men are more likely to follow politics (and not just policy debates) much more closely than women. Think of all the people you know who listen to all the candidates' stump speeches on YouTube, who take pleasure in watching congressional hearings on C-SPAN, etc? Then think how many of them are women. What convinces political junkies to blog is not their probably mistaken sense of expertise, but the fact that they spend a lot of their time immersed in politics, and blogging is just an extension of that. Women seem far less likely to be in that position unless they <I>do</I> have unusual expertise in the subject (which in itself puts them in the minority of their sex).Miss Self-Importanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12137742112649375756noreply@blogger.com