{"id":2147,"date":"2009-09-07T17:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T17:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/the-shameful-truth-about-male-bibliobloggers\/"},"modified":"2009-09-07T17:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T17:48:00","slug":"the-shameful-truth-about-male-bibliobloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/the-shameful-truth-about-male-bibliobloggers.html","title":{"rendered":"The Shameful Truth About Male Bibliobloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I have too much respect for the women among bibliobloggers to not admit publicly the truth about their fellow bibliobloggers who are men, a truth that we\u2019ve been conspiring to cover up. The truth, as shameful as it is to admit, is this:<\/p>\n<p>Lately women bibliobloggers have observed the underrepresentation of women among bibliobloggers, and have begun to seriously consider what is at the root of this gender imbalance and how it might be remedied.<\/p>\n<p>Do you know what male bibliobloggers have been thinking about this?<\/p>\n<p>The men among bibliobloggers have been wondering whether this data drawn to their attention indicates that we\u2019re still a bunch of geeks, nerds, dweebs, and cat-hating Zwingli-lovers whom girls still don\u2019t want to hang out with, or whether the  interest female bloggers have expressed in remedying the imbalance indicates that we\u2019ve left our loser status behind and achieved a level of coolness we\u2019ve never known before.<\/p>\n<p>I know it\u2019s sad. I know it\u2019s shameful. 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The truth, as shameful as it is to admit, is this: Lately women bibliobloggers have observed the underrepresentation of women among bibliobloggers, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Shameful Truth About Male Bibliobloggers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have too much respect for the women among bibliobloggers to not admit publicly the truth about their fellow bibliobloggers who are men, a truth that\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/the-shameful-truth-about-male-bibliobloggers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Shameful Truth About Male Bibliobloggers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have too much respect for the women among bibliobloggers to not admit publicly the truth about their fellow bibliobloggers who are men, a truth that\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/09\/the-shameful-truth-about-male-bibliobloggers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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