Where ARE all the women bloggers? CNN doesn't know

Mena Trott is interviewed by CNN about the Internet. (She's one of the founders of Six Apart, the parent company of Typepad, Movable Type and now Livejournal.)

Look at this stupid ignorant comment from CNN:

CNN: Where are the women bloggers?

TROTT: I think the women are there. I think what we see is a focus on topics that tend to be more male-dominated, so we don't get as much coverage. Men blog more about politics. Politics are more likely to get picked up by the media. Technology has always been male-dominated. So there's this sort of echo chamber.

But there's knitting, this family, these topics that have been relegated to being sub-par blogging, which I disagree with completely.

Seventy-five percent of our users on LiveJournal are female. And on Typepad and Movabletype it's almost a 50/50 split. There are women blogging, they just don't need to be so loud.

"Where are the women bloggers?" You've got to be kidding me. Almost all the blogs I read are written by women. I cannot believe the reporter asked this asinine question!!!!!!! Hello! I've been here since 2001, on and off. In fact, I think the majority of people who read blogs are women. The bias in the mainstream media is toward the political blogs written by already-known male writers/opinionists, or blogs that have become popular, which are also written by men. I see that blogs that became famous because of sex weren't necessarily on this reporter's radar, like the washingtonienne's blog or the blog of belledujour (although belledujour's blog may have been fiction). Both of those bloggers got book deals. There are others, too. (Of course, if the reporter had mentioned these people, I would then rant about how the media assumes that women can only write sex blogs. Hehe.)

I think that someone didn't do their research. The mere title of the CNN article is condescending.