Well, I have to weigh in on this blog battle that’s going on. I’ve always enjoyed studying history and I strongly feel it’s important to keep an accurate record of historical events.

Therefore, I will try to summarize the goings-on in the boobie blogging war as best I can.

It all started with an innocent enough question about the differences between male and female bloggers. This lead to a discussion of this issue. It was a civil intellectual discussion, at first. Well, not really, but for the sake of historical record we’ll say it was civil.

As though perfectly timed came this post chronicaling another blog war called boobygate.

Well, that just topped off the already heated discussion which lead to some other people voicing their opinions on the need for women to boobie blog to get traffic. Frustration at the objectification of woman overflowed into the stupidest. blogfight. ever. Are we only good for boobie bloggin? Does boobie bloggin keep us from noticing the threat at the door? Must we lower our standards to get men to visit our blogs?

Some don’t get the issue of some women not wanting ‘that kind of traffic’. Most women know what ‘that kind of traffic’ means, but apparently all men don’t.

You see most of us have been gawked at and drooled over in real life and find some relief from that superficial attention on the internet. We know when men are listening to what we say and when they are just pretending to listen as a way to convince us they are ’sensitive’ or interested in us on more than one level.

And frankly, when the reason for the attention is so obvious it gives us the creeps. Seriously.

So the internet is kind of a safe haven from that. For some of us. And we like it that way. Like me or don’t like me. Get to know me a little or leave me alone. Whichever it is, you’ll do it based on what I write here, not on what I look like.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun to be an attractive female. Lots of fun. But if you are an intelligent attractive female, it gets complicated. For one thing, there’s a lot of ‘that kind of attention’. That’s not fun attention. Another thing is that it’s hard to find a man who isn’t threatened by that and most of us, be honest, have dumbed ourselves down more than once in our lives.

Honestly, I hadn’t given the boobie blogging thing all that much thought until this all came up. I knew it was an issue, but since I am not that interested in boobies, I didn’t care one way or the other.

Then, when it came up and I read the passion with which some of my Cotillion sisters spoke about it, I started thinking about it a little more.

So imagine my shock when I saw that my friend Patty at This, That and Frog Hair had fallen into the trap of boobie blogging for traffic.

Mona Lisa

UPDATE:
Orge exposes a crack in this story.
If you want real boobie blogging try this.
Basil weighs in.
The Anchoress has a much more thoughtful and serious take on the issue that precipitated this debate.