I don't know about that, particularly tv shouters. Nancy Grace, Wendy Murphy, Lisa Bloom, Jeanine Pirro, Gloria Allred, Jayne Weintraub and I all shout pretty good and usually louder than the males. Those that don't shout, Lis Wiehl, Rikki Klieman, Leslie Crocker Snyder, to name a few, also get themselves heard quite well. My problem is with the imbalance, the proliferation of conservative/prosecutor-type tv shouters over liberal/defender ones.

I think it's the same for blogging. There just seem to be more conservative women bloggers and columnists than liberal ones. So I'll take a few seconds to acknowledge some liberal ones. Among those I read just about every day and whom are not, to my knowledge, professional writers or professors in their day jobs, are Avedon Carol of Sideshow and Jeanne D'Arc of Body and Soul. As often as I can, I check out Susan at Suburban Guerilla, World O' Crap, Natasha at Pacific Views, Mad Kane, Libby at Last One Speaks, Julia at Sisyphus Shrugged and Teresa at Making Light. Cookie Jill recently joined Skippy and is doing a great job.

Maybe it's just me, but I am much more attuned to whether the blogger or opinionator has a voice I agree with and find readable, than whether s/he is male or female. There's only so many hours in the day, and I just don't spend many of them reading blogs and columnists who are going to make my blood pressure rise.

There's always exceptions, and that's why I keep a "Best of the Other Side" blogroll on TalkLeft. I read Jeff at Protein Wisdom and Stephen Green at Vodkapundit every day. Both Jeff and Stephen asked me to guest blog when they went on vacation and I was flattered to be asked. (I'm posting at Vodkapundit this week, and so is another female blogger, conservative La Shawn Barber .)

So, bottom line, I really don't care how many female bloggers or columnists there are. The fewer conservative/prosecutorial ones there are, the better. The more liberal/defender ones there are, the better.