via Volokh a quote from either Slate or Anne Applebaum:
Perhaps male columnists are just not interested in this issue because it doesn’t represent the sort of “hard news” they’re used to commenting on. More likely, they are terrified to opine on the debate because the inquiry is so fraught with the possibility of career-terminating levels of politically correct blowback — a la Larry Summers — that they deem it better to hold their tongues and wait for the storm to pass.
Ok, I’ll bite. While I’ve been willing to comment on my own run ins with issue, mostly, I find the whole issue boring because its just whining. Men really don’t find whining interesting because we don’t do the sort of “trouble talking” that women do.
As for why there are more male opinion columnists then women, there are some gender differences I think.
- Men are more egotistical, so they’re more interested in writing an opinion column or blogging in the first place.
- Men are more confrontational in general. In men’s conversations, there’s often a game of one-upmanship, so there’s definite precedent for disagreement in conversation. Women tend towards agreement in converstation. You’re much more likely to hear a man say “you’re full of shit and here’s why” then you are to hear a woman say that.
- Ever notice that blogs written by women have more details about their lives and tends more towards journals then opinion essays?
This is covered quite well in this book I recommended previously:
You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation
Recent Comments