Why Testosterone Rules The Blogosphere

My friend Thomas Stewart III passes this along on why 67% of bloggers have penises:

When it comes the arena of ideas, the women who blog are not typical women. [Me:  no shit!] Over and over, the women who blog are tougher. Like the shotgun wielding Western expansionists of yore, women bloggers take shots and can shoot back. [My Taurus .38 is registered and I have a concealed weapons permit.]

Women bloggers are often sexualized and insulted. [That's never stopped me. I'm not afraid of anything.]
Most women simply do not want to put up with this garbage. They feel threatened and they worry about their safety and the safety of their children.... There are nutjobs out there and in this business, there is a very real risk to personal safety. It’s something guys just don’t have to deal with as much. [There are nut jobs at your local Home Depot. I keep my gun in my car.]

Women often don’t like the intellectual jousting. Part of it is gender wiring. Men see verbal sparring as a testosterone-fueled challenge. Women see degraded communication and hostility. When they put an idea out there, it seems aggressive when someone rips the point of view to shreds. And, it is aggressive. [N/A  I've been told I have more balls than most men.]

It might not be politically correct to say so, but women and men have gender generalities that make certain behavior more typical–including online behavior. I’m not sure what will change this. And I don’t know if these gender trends would be good to change. For example, if men become more cooperative and women become more dominant, the playing field may be evened in discourse but some of the particularities inherent in gender would be lost. Is that a good thing? That’s a bigger question and not the one being asked here, but I think it’s a worthwhile one to consider. [Bullshit.]

The women who do blog tend to stick out.  [Yeah, so what?]  Most women have enough heat in the rest of their lives, they figure they don’t need to invite by putting ideas out there via a blog. [Wusses. Pack heat like I do.]

Men bloggers rabidly consume phallic Cheetos.  It's a proven fact Cheetos increases testosterone production. Women bloggers are constantly on diets,  reapplying phallic lipstick, and vacuuming...