Lisa Guernsey's piece in the New York Times about a gender gap in the blogosphere has drawn criticism from Jeff Jarvis and InstaPundit, both of whom question whether a piece on the dearth of female bloggers really needed to be written, given all the female bloggers out there. (Jeff lists us as a female blog… sorta.)



I'll mention a different theme in Guernsey's article: her contention that "the Venus-Mars divide has made its way into Blogville. Women want to talk about their personal lives. Men want to talk about anything but."



I'm willing to believe that's true as a very broad generalization, but there are plenty of counterexamples (Lileks leaps to mind). In fact, most of the blogs I read (the majority of which are by men) are full of mentions of the bloggers' personal lives.



We started The Kitchen Cabinet to comment on law, politics and culture, but Kate and I also weave personal stuff into the occasional post, for the same reason we post about celebrity marriages and Necco Wafers: it's a fun break from all the serious blogging, for us and our readers. Also, we have a varied readership; for every wonk who eats up our posts on privacy law, there's a reader who'll complain that "there's too much of that boring legal stuff!"



So we'll try to keep bridging the "Mars-Venus divide," if indeed such a thing exists. And if our readers believe they're reading too much about our personal lives, we hope they'll write us and complain.



Side note: Guernsey also talks about her own blog as "a parallel form of motherhood: the experience of raising a Web site that I'll soon feel guilty about neglecting." I'm guessing that a lot of bloggers -- male and female -- can identify with that.

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