Comments on: Just blog… regardless of your gender http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2006/03/14/just-blog-regardless-of-your-gender/ SinĂ©ad Gleeson's blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:25:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Mary Gilmartin http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2006/03/14/just-blog-regardless-of-your-gender/#comment-2895 Mary Gilmartin Tue, 25 Apr 2006 16:08:37 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2006/03/14/just-blog-regardless-of-your-gender/#comment-2895 Interesting fact, Bimbo used to refer to a tough big man in the 20's. Wonder how the meaning changed from the big dumb tough guy to its current usage. Interesting fact, Bimbo used to refer to a tough big man in the 20’s. Wonder how the meaning changed from the big dumb tough guy to its current usage.

]]> By: Skippy http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2006/03/14/just-blog-regardless-of-your-gender/#comment-2136 Skippy Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:17:05 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2006/03/14/just-blog-regardless-of-your-gender/#comment-2136 I am intrigued by the discussion on this site about the gender issues involved in blogging. Because it is such a gender-neutral medium I wonder why it has become an issue? Seen as though I am the reporter who repeated the term "blogobimbo" I must apologise if it caused offence, but I faithfully recorded a coinage which came up in conversation amongst several individuals on the night of the Irish Blog Awards in Dublin. I fully agree with the commentator above who says it doesn't necessarily have to refer to women. However I admit the word "bimbo" is usually used against to women (often by women), alongside the gloriously descriptive (and equally insulting) "himbo" for ditzy men. I am new to the blogosphere and I think it's great. Not least for all the clever new coinages I have come across. Keep up the good work and I look forward to attending next year's event. Tell Damo not to put it on after the Rugby though. The festivities can affect us reporters' ability to keep our heads screwed on right... I am intrigued by the discussion on this site about the gender issues involved in blogging.

Because it is such a gender-neutral medium I wonder why it has become an issue?
Seen as though I am the reporter who repeated the term “blogobimbo” I must apologise if it caused offence, but I faithfully recorded a coinage which came up in conversation amongst several individuals on the night of the Irish Blog Awards in Dublin. I fully agree with the commentator above who says it doesn’t necessarily have to refer to women. However I admit the word “bimbo” is usually used against to women (often by women), alongside the gloriously descriptive (and equally insulting) “himbo” for ditzy men.
I am new to the blogosphere and I think it’s great. Not least for all the clever new coinages I have come across.
Keep up the good work and I look forward to attending next year’s event. Tell Damo not to put it on after the Rugby though. The festivities can affect us reporters’ ability to keep our heads screwed on right…

]]> By: DrumsNWhistles http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2006/03/14/just-blog-regardless-of-your-gender/#comment-1893 DrumsNWhistles Wed, 15 Mar 2006 23:26:59 +0000 http://www.sineadgleeson.com/blog/2006/03/14/just-blog-regardless-of-your-gender/#comment-1893 Women blog. Even women geek/parent/creative types like me. It's just that the higher profile bloggers are men. I don't know why that is and I don't care. For a very long time I thought blogs were self-aggrandizing vehicles used as an ego-feeding device. It wasn't until a friend actually talked me into blogging that I learned what a wonderful experience it was to write and read the writing of others, male and female. That experience has nothing to do with my gender. I'd love it if things didn't have to always be gender-defined. Seems to me that a blog is worth reading if it addresses topics important to me, and that my blog will be worth reading if it is the same way. Women blog. Even women geek/parent/creative types like me. It’s just that the higher profile bloggers are men. I don’t know why that is and I don’t care. For a very long time I thought blogs were self-aggrandizing vehicles used as an ego-feeding device. It wasn’t until a friend actually talked me into blogging that I learned what a wonderful experience it was to write and read the writing of others, male and female. That experience has nothing to do with my gender.

I’d love it if things didn’t have to always be gender-defined. Seems to me that a blog is worth reading if it addresses topics important to me, and that my blog will be worth reading if it is the same way.

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