Women and the Internet.....

I realize this has been talked about on a few other blogs, but some of you are not readers of kos or even if you are....might not have seen this. I read this last night at Feministe a blog I found last night.

The scope of the research was based on one thread at Kos:

Male participants dominated the discussion, being both more numerous and more frequently responded to than their female counterparts; of the 119 participants, 27 (21%) were identified as female, 80 (67%) were male, and 12 (10%) were of unknown or indeterminate gender. Though 51% of the comments made by male participants (79 out of 154 comments) were responded to, only 28% of the comments by women elicited a response (16 out of 56). What was most interesting was that there was no apparent cause for this disparity in the comments themselves.

I've found similar treatment on message boards and other blogs. Excite is different because I had been there for so long I almost always got responses, however the discussion then turned to how women are treated by some of the men, one of the complaints I read both there and on a few other blogs last night was the common experience of men making comments about menstruation in a negative way as a snarky retort.

While of course there are men out there that never sink to that level in adult conversation, and women out there that are not responsible posters either, it reminds me of the old commercial "You've come along way baby"...

Yeah we have but we still have along way to go.....