In the biblioblogs Top 50, it has become painfully clear that the gender gap is not closing any time soon. I have heard lots about how it is women's own fault and yes they have been invited to particpate, etc. etc. But it has been problematic for me to say the least. Kurk offers to help out with a blog roll.
I would appreciate it if a few other people read these posts and commented. I am not too clear minded about this.
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I am not sure why - not thought about it, really, but I will post on it later today. It may be that for many women, their theology is one which not to blog.
No offense, but many men like to hear and see and watch themselves and generally glorify themselves. What better way than to blog.
A response to Jim West:
http://politicaljesus.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/is-jim-west-blaming-the-victim-again/
I don't think that many women are blogging on the Bible – I'm sure the reasons are many and complex, but I think the list largely reflects the reality. Those in the top tend to be those who blog the most – maybe many women have got better things to be doing.
Thanks. I'll be reading. Last time I checked women blog at the same rate as men. Something else is going on.
Suzanne, they may blog even more than men, but this may simply be an area that they are uninterested in. Do you know the numbers of women v men in seminary teaching positions?
Suzanne, they may blog even more than men, but this may simply be an area that they are uninterested in. Do you know the numbers of women v men in seminary teaching positions?
5:19 PM
That is not a good indicator. For example in the SBC many were fired during the conservative resurgance within the last 30 years. Just a few years back, a women was fired as a Hebrew Professor simply because she was a woman (at SWBTS, the same seminary that added a homemakers degree for seminary wives).
It is becoming a very insecure career choice for women to teach at the seminary.
Maybe instead of blogging about the Bible, they have chucked the Bible and Christianity because the slaveowners have been far to successful in promoting the idea that being female and being Christian makes you a slave. And they are done being the slave. And they see no way out except to leave the church where slavery for women (under other names) is still acceptable.
And now they blog on Athiest topics, or Anti-Christian topics, or pagan topics, and the goddess and such.
After all, the goddess is female and understands women in this male dominated world far and above any patriarchal god.
Mara R.
Who doesn't believe in the goddess, nor does she believe YHWH to be patriarchal. But she is sick and tired of comps who try to make Him after their own image thus destroying His witness on this earth.
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