No woman

Interesting – found this in my referral log – and went to it, curious. Check it out. There’s a complaint about how there “aren’t many women blogging about history”.

And the rebuttal from Ralph Luker to that complaint is here – and it is along the lines of what I did here. Rather than get into the tiresomeness of the argument – which is NOT BASED ON REALITY ANYWAY – just provide a gazillion links to prove the complainer wrong. That’s a much better system. Because women are everywhere. And some of them suck. Just like some of the men suck. But many are awesome. So stop looking on the blogrolls of the big boys – stop even thinking that “the big boys” are important or anything that you need to worry about. Stop waiting for Instapundit to link to women other than Ann Althouse – as though he is the arbiter of who is a legitimate blogger. This isn’t Glenn’s fault – he links to what he finds interesting. But it’s not even 1 percent of 1 percent of the entire blog universe. I find blogs that I find interesting by clicking on links from bloggers I trust. This is how most people do it. I found Bad News Hughes from Beth who found it from Mimi. I found 15minutelunch from John, who emailed me the link, knowing I would like him. Etc. etc. Has Glenn ever linked to Bad News Hughes? Not that I know of. Does that mean anything? No. Patrick Hughes is still one of the best writers on the Web.

Anyway: I was surprised and happy to see that my name was included in the list of women bloggers who blog about history. You just never know who’s out there, paying attention to what you’re doing.

I’m also going to have to click around in the links listed there. Seems like there are some really good ones.