Sexism in Weblogging

From a recent debate on Blogroots about a lack of female bloggers in blogrolls:

For the sake of argument, let's say more women blog in the style of a personal diary and more men post in the form of commentary on industry-related articles (and I'm not saying this is true). And let's also posit that people like to either connect themselves to people they know personally ("friend blogs") and are known to many others ("celebrity blogs"), or to sources considered to be of general substantive value ("substance blogs"). There are more male celebrity bloggers (like kottke and winer) and more male substance bloggers (which may also make up a substantial percentage of the celebrity ones). Let's continue in this vein of hypothesized generalizations (also known as "What I really think but have no statistics or New Yorker articles to back me up") and say that a study might reveal that there is a mix of 10% friend blogs, 30% celebrity blogs, and 60% substance blogs in all blogrolls. One conclusion one (or let's go ahead and risk "I") could draw is that all bloggers will choose more men in their blogrolls.

Voila - unintentional, uninhibited sexism. Like a Dormant Commerce Clause case, but without the sophisticated write-up by a Supreme Court justice. Solution? Human nature needs to change or more female bloggers, if they're so inclined, need to start writing about things in which everybody (and not just what their mother, shopping buddies, and stalkers) might find interest.

Or this is really a non-issue and everybody loves women bloggers just as much as men bloggers. Or maybe the women already have enough love and attention in their life anyway. Or...and this is the big one...some guy posed this issue to distract me and other women from our usual discussions of male genitalia mutilation.