Check out Samhita the great (and many other friends of Feministing) at Netroots Nation panel "Women Bloggers Found: Has Feminist Blogging Gone Mainstream?" Panel description:
A few years ago, male bloggers 'round the liberal bloglandia were wondering out loud, "Where are the women bloggers?" Many of the women in the feminist and progressive blogospheres responded with frustration--we were there, and had been, the whole time. Today, the blogosphere looks awfully different, as feminist bloggers are increasingly mainstreamed and able to exert stronger influence on online discourse. But "blogging while feminist" isn't always easy, and feminist bloggers have faced harassment and threats that are uniquely gendered and sexualized. Feminists who have been most successful at running bigger blogs have also been mostly young, white, heterosexual and middle-class--so their issues have been presented to the mainstream progressive movement as the whole of feminism. This panel will look at what has changed, what hasn't and who remains on the edges of progressive blogging. It will also examine how female bloggers--and feminist bloggers in particular--are treated in mainstream spaces, and what we can do about it.
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I think Feministing is very mainstream and quite well-known. I can't speak for other blogs... maybe Jezebel is a bad example, but at least they post some good links to Feministing and other feminist websites.
just a question... what happens if you or any other bloggers get death threats or harrassing e-mails with threats of violence? Do you report them, and to who? The local police?
wow, I'm so glad to hear that feminist blogging is finally being accepted and brought into the mainstream. Yah Samhita for doing this