Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.<\/p>\n
The author of All’s Well, Jezebel<\/a>, a resident of London, is thinking “about extremes, about fanaticism, breeding hate and suicide” and wondering what the world would be like if children and clowns were given more of a say. Another Londoner, Lisy Babe<\/a>, meanwhile, has a grave concern for her security and safety, because the doors just keep on attacking her.<\/p>\n Minerva<\/a>, however, has escaped from London, but finds there are plenty of shocks in the countryside, in meeting another level of the food chain. (And check the design of her blog – it’s brilliant.)<\/p>\n Two sides of discrimination. Thus Spoke Zuska<\/a> checks out the latest report on US education, suggesting: “If we were just a tad less efficient at turning women, minority men, and lower-income students away from the doors of our science and engineering classrooms, we’d probably have all the science and engineering talent we could use”. Mary Johnson<\/a> on Edge-centric, meanwhile, wonders how a Supreme Court justice who is suffering from cancer should be treated, when he had ruled that a university was within its rights to sack a professor because she had the disease.<\/p>\n Then in the “news you can use” category, Creepy Lesbo<\/a> offers a practical guide, gleaned from hard experience, of how children can deal with bullying. Dorothy Thompson, meanwhile, is a guest blogger on Author and Book News<\/a>. She asks: “Are you prepared to be an author?” and offers some tips to make sure you are.<\/p>\n Now I might be being a little parochial here, in pointing to a London restaurant review blog – but the writing’s good, so you can enjoy it, and all of the world comes to London sooner or later, or it should. So check out Krista likes food’s verdict<\/a> on Bibdendum. (Importantly, she always includes a comment on the “ladies”.)<\/p>\n And on the week that the other Bridget has returned to the British media (what do you think, BTW?), Bridget Who<\/a> is wielding something rather more exciting than a glass of chardonnnay. It’s a “weapon of minor destruction” – but don’t worry, it is only being used on the hedge.<\/p>\n Staying on the lighter side of life The Hot Librarian<\/a> is seeking a date for Jemajesty, a small stuffed monkey. The librarian may not be like those with which you are normally familiar – in her profile she says is addicted to Jamba Juice. I’m not quite sure what that is – judge for yourself. (Not for those of Victorian sensibility.)<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n