Top 30 sites in the feminist blogosphere
February 3, 2009
by The New Agenda
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Linkfluence map of the feminist blogosphere showing Reclusive Leftist
At the Fem2pt0 conference yesterday, the new Linkfluence map of the feminist blogosphere was unveiled. We’re happy to note that two of our contributors have blogs listed among the top 30 most influential websites: Violet Socks, who blogs as the Reclusive Leftist (and is also the editor of this website), and Ann Bartow, who runs Feminist Law Professors.
Here’s the list of the top 30 sites, which includes blogs as well as sites like NOW, Planned Parenthood, and Ms. Magazine:
http://www.feministing.com/
http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/
http://www.feministe.us/blog/
http://bitchphd.blogspot.com/
http://www.amptoons.com/blog/
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/
http://echidneofthesnakes.blogspot.com/
http://www.now.org/
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
http://community.livejournal.com/
http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/
http://www.msmagazine.com/
http://feministlawprofs.law.sc.edu/
http://fetchmemyaxe.blogspot.com/
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/
http://www.thecurvature.com/
http://www.thefword.org.uk/
http://viv.id.au/blog/
http://www.womanist-musings.com/
http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/
http://renegadeevolution.blogspot.com/
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/
http://www.wimnonline.org/WIMNsVoicesBlog/
http://abyss2hope.blogspot.com/
http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/
http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/
http://daisysdeadair.blogspot.com/
http://finallyfeminism101.wordpress.com/
http://www.fauxrealtho.com/
http://www.hugoschwyzer.net/
The link map at the top of the post is based on Reclusive Leftist as the galactic hub. Here’s the map with Feminist Law Professors at the hub:
Linkfluence map of blogosphere showing Feminist Law Professors
Neat, huh?
The New Agenda is in there too, though at this point it’s still a class M star. But at the rate we’re going, look out!
Congrats Violet and Ann.
amptoons is a blog run by Barry Deutsch. He links to Bang Bros, and every hit to amptoons is a hit to vile, sexist, racist, often violent and until recent complaints from a courageous effort by a feminist blog not on this lest, pornography offering up the bodies of very young women–girls. Barry Deutsch is not a feminist. He’s a pimp. Whose list is that you’ve published? Along with whatever is going on at Vi’s, I’m just about sure the feminist movement is dead to see this on a feminist site. No feminist would be willing to tout a pornographer’s blog, let alone call it feminist.
And let me add that Hugo Swyzer is a predator who brag-blogs about “consensual” sex with young women. A rapist who uses his position of authority over young women to seduce them. What is going on here? Shame. Shame.
Congrats and what’s “class M”?
1. Can someone point out to the originator of the list that ‘amptoons’ has no place on the list? And then get the word out that it has been removed from the list?
2. Has someone checked the other sites on the list to see if they really are appropriately on the list?
I don’t get it: Are these the most heavily trafficked feminist websites or did some committee choose the sites for the list?
ER,
I would say some of those sites have absolutely no place on the list, and I’m not just talking about Amptoons and Hugo.
Other sites, like Riverdaughter, Peacocks and Lilies and Women’s Space should be on the list. I’m sure there are others, I’m just going off the top of my head.
Of course they did get a few right: Violet, Ann, Twisty, Echidne, Shakes– all great picks in my humble opinion!
Sis and ER,
I don’t think linkfluence considers it part of their job to police who can and can’t call him/herself a feminist. I might be skeptical of whether a self-proclaimed “conservative” or “equity” feminist like Christina Hoff Sommers, who has made her career on attacking contemporary feminism, is *really* a feminist. But if she calls herself one, and I’m trying to measure the influence of various feminists based on how much they’re cited, it’s inserting my own biases to declare that no matter how many citations she gets, she doesn’t go on my list.
Indeed, the influence (as measured by links) of Alas A Blog and Hugo Schwyzer on several of the other sites, which you don’t complain aren’t *really* feminist, would indicate that they are popularly accepted as being part of the feminist blogosphere, even if some people don’t consider them feminists. (For an analogy, think of most people’s generally referring to Obama as the “first black president,” even though some other people protest, “no, he’s biracial,” or even “no, he can’t be black because he’s not descended from slaves/ he is descended from Muslims.”)
If I were going to complain about an obvious screwup on this list, it would be http://community.livejournal.com/. That’s not a blog; it’s the base URL for a bunch of sites like /feminist_sex, /feminist_rage, /radfemvoice, /feminist, etc. Linkfluence seems to have had this list made by a bot.
http://community.livejournal.com/ is just the gateway to all the lj communities and your link to the top 30 list is 404.
Your list is definitely broken.
“Indeed, the influence (as measured by links)”
Ah, now I get it. It’s all about link-love. Although, I’m curious to know which sites were included in the initial study, and what the parameters were.
Regardless, Thanks, PG!
Yes, PG, because quibling about whether a particular internet site is or is not a blog is SO much more important than decrying the inclusion on this list of a man who supports and makes his living off sexual slavery.
Gayle, click on the “list of top 30 sites” in the post. That takes you to a page with links you can follow to explore the map, learn about the methodology, etc.
Sis,
1. Sarcasm can be amusing, but it doesn’t do much to advance a sincere, good faith effort toward greater knowledge and understanding. It apparently allows you to feel that you need not contest the actual substance of my point: whether linkfluence, a metric of feminist influence, should be policing who is allowed to call herself a feminist. At this point I honestly can’t tell if you think it’s your job or linkfluence’s job to decide which blogs meet the criteria for being deemed feminist, or if people — including Christina Hoff Sommers or Hugo Schwyzer — are free to call themselves feminists even if you or I don’t believe they are.
2. It’s not quibbling. If someone goes to community.livejournal.com, she won’t find a single thing about feminism — it’s a technical information site explaining how to start a livejournal diary. Putting that URL on the list is a failure in delivering information. In contrast, if someone goes to amptoons or Schwyzer’s blog, she might find a brand of self-declared feminism that she personally finds distasteful, but feminism will be under discussion.
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I don’t get it. I just looked at amptoons, and I didn’t see any links to anything commercial at all, much less Bang Bros.
And there appears to be plenty of feminist content. What am I missing?
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