Boston Globe: YearlyKOS "whitest group they'd ever been in."

[wyldwolf]

there was opportunity for lots of hand-wringing about how the blogosphere is not all it should be. The blurb for one forum, called "blogging while female," noted, "The blogosphere was supposed to be a place where gender didn't matter and voice was all. So what happened?"

Several attendees noted that it was the whitest group they'd ever been in. It was fairly male, too, and surprisingly gray. Bloggers said that while their biggest stars, like Daily Kos namesake Markos Moulitsas, tend to be in their 20s and 30s, the foot soldiers are often in their 40s to 60s.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/08/05/democratic_rivals_bloggers_meet_on_real_world_turf/?page=2

No wonder there so much bickering about Clinton. Mostly white males.

[Robbien]

1. The whitest group they have ever been in?

and mostly male? Typical MSM hyperbole against non-GOPers.

Yes, non-whites were underrepresented, but male/female ratio was pretty even. But there were non-whites there.

Unlike most MSM/GOPer events where there is a token non-white and a couple token females.

[NYVet]

2. They must not have been at Harvard or Yale

for the Skull and Bones convention...

[underpants]

5. Welcome to DU-Have you seen "The Good Shepherd"?

REALLY good movie. Skull and Bones and CIA and all that. REALLY REALLY good movie

[dflprincess]

30. Or We Fest

(country musical festival in Detroit Lakes, MN). I got roped into going once - the only "people of color" were white guys who had been out in the sun too long and burned their beer bellies bright red. It was a terrible experience and one of the longest days of my life.

[underpants]

3. Well if it isn't perfect then they are all just hipocrits and it isn't worth doing

The Superman defense as I call it-if you can find one thing one weakness then it isn't worth doing or being involved in at all. Now if that is applied to say...the idea about invading and occupying another country when you have just been attacked at home ...well there are always "unexpecteds" and "known unknown" and basically that is just the doings of monday mornign quarterbacks naysayers obstructionists and the liberal media.

Yeah so what if it is white male and gray. It is how old again? Is that really reflective of the entire blogosphere? How about the Republican convention in NYC, did they happen to catch any of that????

[JPZenger]

4. Educated Retirees

It make sense that the best bloggers would be older persons. Most younger persons are too busy working to do the research needed to be a good blogger. There are plenty of well-educated persons who have taken early retirement or who are semi-retired. Those are the people with the time, the writing skills and the research skills to be quality bloggers.

[Captain Hilts]

19. The foot soldiers of Moveon.Org are also older people. nt

[xchrom]

6. maybe -- just maybe -- that's who bothered to take the time to show up?

[xultar]

9. I'm a black single woman caring for a household on her own. Lawn care

all bills, home maintenance, car & car maintenance, insurance, clothes, food, pets all comes out of my one wallet.

Where my white male counterparts who are often married and make more can.

Don't blame the fact that people can't show because you think they don't care. I'm just trying to keep my head above water just like all the single working women out there. It's fuckin tough. If you have it that easy then you're lucky and I salute you.

[xchrom]

16. i'm on your side in this -- not the OP --

people have lives -- and yearlykos gets those who can -- but the OP makes this ridiculous assumption about who's there and snarking at the clintons -- i can't afford to be there either.

but i'd snark at the clinton's too.

and i don't fit the article's profile.

[xultar]

18. Not the OP the article mentions the fact that it is mostly older white males

IT seemed negative when you mentioned that they bothered to show up.... I would if I could.

:hugs:
x

[xchrom]

24. yeah i know -- lots of us would.

the OP is really trying to make a point about WHO is snarking at the clintons --
and i think there is a good deal of diversity of folk snarking at the clintons.

sorry i could have worded it all better.

and many, many hugs back at ya.:hug:

[MannyGoldstein]

7. Gee... Yesterday Kossaks Were Good Guys In Your Book

I guess that was before the myth of their loving embrace of Mrs. Clinton was debunked.

[wyldwolf]

8. Sorry. I don't have a "book" when I comes to Kossacks

I see a story on YearlyKos, I post it. See how that works?

[zulchzulu]

10. Should I start a web site "Misogynists for Hillary"

I can start off the page by apologizing for being a male. There could be forums for how white guys and especially graying white guys can talk with metrosexuals about how even women can do stuff, yunno...

PLEASE forgive me! Whaaaaah...

:rofl:

[Buzz Clik]

14. You don't have to apologize for being male; just quit it! Change is good.

[Buzz Clik]

11. Yeah, that's it. Only white males dislike Hillary.

[wyldwolf]

12. well, this thread should keep you all busy the rest of the week

[EST]

13. If you'd really like to know what was going on,

a peek at Jane Hamsher's write up,over at firedoglake
http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/08/06/yearly-kos-and-the-myth-of-the-white-male/

is a good place to start. She was there and a spark plug for the whole affair.

Clear, Concise.

[givemebackmycountry]

17. You beat me to it -

I read her post late last night.
She was on Harball recently too - she did GREAT.

[EST]

23. In her case, as in so many others, recently,

the cream truly does rise to the top.

[wyldwolf]

15. Yearly Kos Executive Director Gina Cooper: ""It's mostly white. More male than female"

http://www.techpresident.com/node/4632

[jsamuel]

20. who is the most likely to be able to afford to go? A black woman in her 20's or a white male in his

50's?

That is half the reason a lot of us are online, because it is practically free. YearlyKos costs money. Travel, food, lodging, and fees.

[beachmom]

21. Well, I'm female, and I was there. I can't BELIEVE you're launching

an anti-YearlyKos campaign here. You do know that next year it will be called Netroots Nation, right? Markos knows it has outgrown his site. And I think his site is more appealing to males overall. Let's make next convention more diverse. Still, it was quite expensive to go there, so that is a factor also.

[Captain Hilts]

25. Yes. I know some women who've bailed on his site. nt

[xultar]

27. I am a kos member but I don't get the site structure. DU is much easier.

I guess it really forces people into the Diary format. My thoughts don't come like that so it doesn't make sense for me to participate much. I just read.

[xultar]

26. I don't see it as anti-yearly kos. I think that is taking it to the extreme.

Kos is clearly a Pro-Edwards shop so it makes sense they'd be anti-Clinton. Just like DU is ABC anyone but Clinton.

Luckily I support all the candidates against ANY Republican.

[jsamuel]

28. Kos was anti-Clinton way before they were pro-Edwards

[xultar]

29. True. I'm for any Democrat now. The republiks have taken us back to the stone age.

[Clark2008]

31. Which is why I never go there anymore.

Why are these people so pro-Edwards? I thought they were liberals.

[Catchawave]

22. I was there....

Obviously, I attended a different convention :D