Posts Tagged with ‘women’

I feel that we talk too much about gender online. I also feel that we talk way too much about women and how we are discriminated online. I believe that women have been fighting for equal rights for too long to easily forget about the fight, stop for a minute and realize the fight is probably over. If you behave like you are already equal, no one will doubt you are.
But if you remind everyone that you are actually a [...]

Ah, Playboy. The American institution that's made a fortune based on the objectification of women has invaded the blogosphere in a way I didn't think they were capable of any longer. In an era when every possible permutation of porn is available at a mouse click, who'd have thought that Playboy, a publication that's considered by many to be about as racy as Marilyn Monroe's dress billowing over a grate, could still cause controversy?
It all started with a letter that [...]

On the off chance you haven't already been inundated with women's sites, Yahoo has launched their new site geared toward women today. Sticking with the name Shine that was originally rumored, the site follows the same mold as previous entries into this space.
Right from the first article you see, you know that Yahoo has gone as far as women's magazines in researching what women want. The headline article? A treatise on “The 100 Unsexiest Men 2008″ originated by the [...]

You know how most things to do with technology are supposedly slanted toward the male segment of the human species?
Yes, I?m sure you?re aware. Aware of that assumption, anyway. And it?s completely understandable as to why exactly people feel that that is the case. After all, one doesn?t typically find airport lounges and cafes populated by a great deal of women wielding laptop computers, clicking away happily, content to spend their waken moments in their own personal virtual worlds. [...]

I’m not one to (publicly) pass subjective judgment on the physical properties of particular individuals’, be they of the Malibu coterie or whathaveyou, or advise you to do so. But as a reporter/opinionator of all things Web-related at the service of you, dear weblog reader, I feel it incumbent of me to give you the lowdown on the latest twist/derivative to be borne of the age-old, almost-entirely-unsubstantive Internet invention known by the name Hot or Not.
Yes, in the oh-so-shallow vein [...]

It's a bit ironic that I started this series about Women in 2.0 right before the recent news about Kathy Sierra. For anyone who may have missed it, Kathy recently pulled out of a conference talk after feeling threatened by comments made on her blog and images and commentary posted on other blogs.
While I in no way condone the behavior of the individuals responsible, I can't join with the rest of the blogosphere in expressing shock. Nor, to be honest, [...]

A few weeks ago, I started noticing a trend in some of the latest community site releases from some heavy hitters. iVillage was rolling out a new community feature. Even the usually hyper-paranoid-about-image Disney was launching a user-created content site. There definitely seems to be a trend with companies to attracting women, particularly mothers, to Web 2.0 sites.
However, as I started looking at these sites, and others I would have assumed were also being helmed by women, I noticed [...]

Yesterday’s Financial Times ‘Digital Business’ section turned over a rock few want to uncover, but should. The issues of inequality and prejudice. It uncovered some background grumblings about a disconnect in the IT world, about women and their diminishing or non-existent interest in the computer sciences, program and web development, and many other things bits- and bytes-related.
It’s pretty much a given that the average male geek will come to realize that the pool on the other side of the spectrum [...]