In answer to that endlessly circulating question “where are all the female bloggers?”, I’ve decided to make a small weekly collection that answers: HERE!<\/p>\n
Why “femme fatales”? Because these are killer posts.<\/p>\n
This week’s is drawn from my own blogroll, but in the next week if you read, or write, a post by a woman blogger (and no I’m not doing chromosome tests so I can only do by self-identification) and think “that deserves a wider audience”, send me an email (natalieben at gmail dot com) or drop a comment here.<\/p>\n
I’m trying to get a wide sample of subjects and approaches, as I hope this selection indicates. This is not only about blogging on “women’s topics”. I’m going to limit it to ten, to make it manageable.<\/p>\n
So this week’s ten (in no particular order – this isn’t a competition):<\/p>\n
* Shakespeare’s Sister<\/a> directly, and passionately, addresses the refusal of male bloggers to link to women.<\/p>\n * Green fairy<\/a> has an unpleasant encounter with the “old” media, in the form of her appearance in Marie Claire<\/em>, in between “Murder in Suburbia” and “Sandra Bullock”.<\/p>\n * Veiled4allah<\/a> briskly dismisses the claim that jihad <\/em>means simply “holy war”.<\/p>\n * Echidne of the snakes<\/a> sees how the US Budget debate has exposed the fact that “some Republicans really are Democrats and some Democrats are Republicans”.<\/p>\n * In response to the claim that women don’t like to get into arguments, Bitch PhD<\/a> leaps up to say: I DO!<\/p>\n * On Break of Day in the Trenches<\/a> Esther describes her role in the naming of a bus after a local war hero.<\/p>\n * On Early Modern Notes<\/a> Sharon explores what Women’s History Month does and should mean.<\/p>\n * Real E Fun<\/a> is a non-religious funeral celebrant who is an absolutely inspiring, unmissable read. (Really!) In this post she’s attempting a little neighbourhood match-making.<\/p>\n * Patia Stephens<\/a>, in a heart-wrenching post, describes what it has been like to “struggle with beauty for what feels like my whole life”.<\/p>\n