Why Is Professional Blogging Bloodsport For Women?

Writing online as a woman: For many, it means war.

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Links to Look at During 'Why Is Professional Blogging Bloodsport For Women?'

We may wind up touching on these in the talk, so here are links to refer to:

Slate’s XX blog post about this talk — time to get over it?

Negative professional repercussions for women — is fallout from online writing the same for men when it comes to career?

1,216 comments on New York Times Magazine article by Emily Gould about her experiences with blogging — many veered into personal criticism. Acceptable when your subject is yourself?

Would blog posts on a highly-trafficked national site written from the point of view of a female writer’s vagina would be similarly unremarkable in terms of reader response?

Dangerous to be a woman even writing about writing online? 

How do female writers’ physical appearance play into the online criticism?

We see this across subjects when they’re written about online by women: What is universal about being a woman writing online that draws haters?