Nah.

Next thing you know, you'd want them to ask something like:

1. Are you male?
Yes
No
I'm transgendered you insentive clod

1.A. Do you post to politics threads?
I post
I read but don't post
I am Fnarf
What threads?

2. Are you female?
Yes
No
I'm transgendered you insensitive clod

2.A. Don't you think Brittney let herself go after the second child?
Yes
No
I'm ECB - where's the politics question on the express bus for non-wheelchair bike riders?

Based on the total votes, I'm guessing I'm not the only one.

WOOT!

2) Almost all political speakers and writers in the media are white men and they tend to invite white male guests.

3) The white men in charge like to dissuade women from joining in political discourse by belittling women and by using irrelevant but culturally male language and concepts. For example, it seems like every political blogger and pundit loves to talk about baseball and football and uses sports analogies. For some reason, I never see makeup analogies.

4) Every post but one on the Stranger's 2008 election blog was written by men. Of course, there's also the blog's focus on gay male issues while almost ignoring lesbian issues and completely ignoring transgender issues.

I'm surprised that the female readership is as high as 39%. For the men out there, how many blogs do you read and comment on that are mostly written by women?

It's a gay rag. Deal with it.

Is it really so suprising and heartbreaking that men are 2/3 more interested in politics than women?

Maybe you all didn't notice, but for the last oh...half-million years or so, outside of who gets to breed, men have called most of the shots. So this result is strange to you? Bizarre? Unfair? Wtf?

And what's with attacking the methodology? It's a simple poll! Are you male or female? It's a question of biology. And where biology fails to adequately define, such as in the case of the hermaphrodite, I would think the individual self-identifies with one group over the other.

On top of all of this, who cares?! Who cares what gear you have between your butthole and your belly button? Aren't we all political junkies? Aren't we all concerned about the future of our planet, our species, and our nation?

Focus people! Shit like this cost us the last two presidential elections and barley got us a majority in the House. Focus on the problem! Work toward the solution! Penises and Vaginas are wedge issues!

Now get serious and get out there and get those motherfucking Kleptocrats out of the government!

. . . And sorry for the comparions to Halo, guys, but, from nature or from nurture (and this is just from my experience), women tend to be more practical.

Women also tend to be less "LISTEN TO ME! LISTEN TO ME!"

"FIRST!"

Everything you just vomited is pure shit, and you know it.

Oh, and ... makeup analogies? You've got to be fucking kidding me.

@ 20 - you can take that, or leave it, because it's from my experience, not yours.

@ 22 - you're absolutely right, But to see an example of a woman who likes video games and hashing things out aggressively online, see @ 20.

1) Women are too weak-willed to assert themselves online in the face of strong opposing opinions.

2) Men are stupid and waste their time ranting pointlessly online while women dedicate themselves to more productive pursuits.

3) Men are big nerds.

4) White men run everything and need to talk more about makeup and shopping or women will get bored and go home.

5) Eli doesn't know shit about statistics. And is insensitive to trannies.

Can't we all just get along?

61% of respondents (n=669) identified themselves as men, and 39% identified themselves as women. The conclusion can therefore be drawn that 408 respondents were probably male and 261 were probably female.

The end.

No, it says that, on the male-oriented SLOG, that a vast majority of the ones who read the poll and voted in it self-identified themselves as male.

We can draw no conclusions as to the real gender, the gender of Stranger readers, the gender of blog posters, or even the gender of people who post on political blogs in poll threads.

For all we know three-quarters of the voters were Mr. Poe.

You can thank me later for my hard work.

Gummi Bears sound good.

There's a certain pack mentality that permeates The Slog - and other blogs. And if there is one thing I've learned it is to stay the fuck away from male environs when The Pack's running.

Individual men are great. But somehow when they bunch up they often form into something different from the nice guy you were talking to 5 minutes ago. Don't know why. Don't care to ponder why. It just happens. Best to leave the boys to their fun and leave the field.

Even male groups with issues one against the other - ie. white vs non-white, gay vs straight, liberal vs conservative, will suddenly go into Pack Mode with the female as the agreed upon goat.

I call it "The Brotherhood of The Genitalia" … it trumps all male divisions and finds a common enemy - women.

Fish tacos are nice too.

Like pit bulls, they can smell your fear.

It isn't like blogging matters. They want to do group mastubatory, high-fiving sessions why should I care?

There's no pay check attached.

I'm unable to access the links to Hill Contested or Hill Controlled so I don't know what the point is - when I get to a bigger system I will.

Science matters.

So once real polls were dragged down to the same level as a silly self-selected web poll, and you're supposed think they're both equally suspect, and you might as well use an unscientific web poll.

I don't know why he said it -- he seemed like somebody who would know better. Maybe he thought it was funny? He's no David Schmader, that's for sure.

@ 55 - I agree with this as well.

Even what I thought was an innocent post, an attempt to be helpful, was criticized in nonproductive ways.

And it wasn't even entertaining.

I mean - about as entertaining as a game of football.

Even here in Seattle most women I know work, they are the primary care takers of any offspring, and are the primary homemakers.

I on the other hand am a lesbian so my partner and I share the workload more evenly. And we don’t have kids. Thus, I have time to sit around slogging about Hillary v. Obama and Ron Sims latest political fiasco.

I have worked for a lot of political campaigns and non profits and hands down women make up a much greater percentage of contributors and those who volunteer. Maybe we can say that women put their money where their mouth is rather than sitting at their computer pontificating about what they think.

That would be my guess.