and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

Your Intellectual Type is DUMBASS

Ain't that the truth, baby?

My last installment of the Blogging 101 series is here. Lecture 10. I've said a few times that I will write one about female bloggers and so it is, here, and finally done.

For a number of reasons the female blogger is a VPT (very powerful thing). When it comes to this technology thing females are often few and far between. Why is this so? It's easy enough to stretch over to our friend the evolutionarian and pose our question there where we will no doubt be reminded that males tend toward the silly such as the fix-it gene and the don't ask directions gene and, while these are steretypes, they work. Males like to tinker. Males dig on this technology thing and we've been digging on it in far greater numbers than the females of our species for a very long time. Why? Whatever, I'll leave that to the psychologists (they need something to keep them employed). What I will do is use it as a basis for my arguement:

People in places unexpected wield unmeasurable power.

When a female shows up in your mechanic class she is unexpected. The afront, aka the trespass, aka the invasion, is so unsettling as to prove incapacitating sometimes. Panic. Immediate exhalation of expletives. Stereotyping. Prejudgement. But somewhere in there is a little awe, a little appreciation for someone trying something out of the ordinary, and a new fan is born - even if they can't admit it.

Plus women just look good.

Female bloggers are the shine and sheen on the blogging world. They are largely a minority, and therefore a commodity. Supply and demand. They are hot and let's face it, men are visually afflicted beings. Come on, don't blame us, we're programmed this way. In the realm of good to evil it's really not that bad. Female bloggers are, last but not least, interesting. I say interesting because female blogs act as a large tomb of information one can tap (no pun intended) to gain powerful insight into the female mind. "Certainly one could say the same of male blogs," you point out. Well, certainly indeed but we have already discussed the power of numbers and supply and demand shows clearly where the demand lies. Plus, I suspect that males are far simpler and such a large tomb of information as the male blogosphere is mostly unnecessary for your average female. Females will of course insist otherwise but they just don't want to accept the truth about their significant others: we're simpletons.

Males are an incredible bunch, don't get me wrong. We've done some truly amazing things and we're smart motherfuckers. We've managed to rule the world for quite some time. We're tall, handsome, and good looking. We look striking in a suit and tie and, when all else fails, we serve as a great ice-cream delivery person to our pregnant wife. That all being said: we are still simpletons. In a good way. We're simple to please and even simpler to predict. We operate with fewer hormonal cycles, we act more consistently, and if we're acting really out there we're probably just a bit randy.

In short: males are dumbasses. I don't say this to be cruel, we just are.

And I'll say it again: in a good way.

Females, however, with their ups, their downs, their questionable social position in a society rooted/based/built on puritanical ethics, and their new found race for equality - they're a much more complex creature. I dare say females operate with more potential confliction on a day to day basis (from whether to get mad because their husband asked them to make dinner because he'd be home too late to whether it's appropriate to date their boss or not) than men probably deal with in a month. While male social position is certainly changing with the tide as well it is more gradual and lenient.

What does all this mean? Females are interesting. Unpredictable. Complex. Interesting. So they, inevitably, attract far more attention than your average male blogger. Even if their day to day posts are as bland as ours there is always something to gleen. A little tidbit of information. The slightest hint of a gem of truth. Something we can take home and say "Look what I learned in school today!".

Plus, chicks are hot. There is no denying that men win in the physical attraction game - we have way more of it for women than they do for us.

Take tony and madpony, for example. Tony is oft heard complaining about his lacluster hit counter in comparison to the slow-to-update madpony site - one with two (cute!) female bloggers. Of course. They're cute. They are sweet and funny and write well, oh - did I mention they were cute?

But mostly they are cute.

Let's not mix words. Physical attraction is a big hand to play and it works. Two big-time bloggers of note, raymi and bunny play that hand every day as they post numerous photos of themselves doing numerous things and, well, they are good looking girls - no doubt. The doubt is whether they would be nearly as popular if it were not for these photos. I say doubt because I honestly don't know. They are crazy and wacky and out there and write truly interesting stuff - interesting enough to stand alone without any gender attachment - but gender is attached and there isn't anything we can do about it. Gotta accept it and move on.

Move on down the road...