Is blogging manly?

Erik Scheske apparently asked a question basically like this in his most recent column for the National Catholic Register. Dom takes exception to some of Erik's comments and provides a bit more information on the story.

After reading Dom's post, I added this response to his comments thread:

If you understand blogging to be a modern form of the time-honored art of essay writing, let alone the daily or weekly columns published by Chesterton, Belloc, Lewis and the like, then this whole question seems a moot point to me. Granted, the average blog post isn’t an essay worthy of Addison and Steele, but it certainly counts as an intellectual attempt hoping to educate and open to criticism and response.

Blogging is *so* for men.

I can't really wrap my head around why this kind of question even merits a column. Slow news week? Oh well, the headline roused me from my thesis composing and now I return to it. A la prochaine fois, mes amis....