Everyone hates being written about. Everyone discovers this anew each time it happens. No one ever learns! So you could basically auto-replace "African-Americans" or "gays" (definitely gays!) or even your own name in today's swath of complaints about the New York Times' coverage of the recent BlogHer conference for lady bloggers. So a bunch of women get together and talk about their feelings and reapply mascara at BlogHer and boy howdy are they pissed when a lady reporter notices.

Insult to injury, this lady reporter writes about it in the ladies' pages of the New York Times, aka the Style section. Which frankly is not the ladies' pages, it is the gay pages, about gay things, but the ladies don't know that, because they are too busy talking about their feelings to notice all the articles by Eric Wilson about how men should wear spats every day and about how Bob Morris has a boyfriend and loves showtunes.

The best part is that women bloggers are making that complaint on blogs like "Feministe" and that those complaints are getting covered on a blog called "Broadsheet." (Broadsheet goes so far as to call that complaint "a little overblown." Yes, because women can't seem to say to other women, "God you're full of shit.")

Likewise, notes Broadsheet, "No one wrote about the guys at Netroots standing around urinals." Well that's because there clearly weren't any decent reporters at the Netroots convention, because every decent reporter knows that the best conference stories are in the bathroom. So maybe the lady Times reporter is actually just a better reporter.

So, okay, the self-imposed ghetto is apparently just fine, but if you imagine that someone else has put you in that ghetto it's totally not okay even though the first ghetto is actual and the second ghetto is basically totally imaginary. Come on, work it out, ladies. Then Broadsheet goes so far as to basically say that women should be making their OWN SEPARATE BLOG INTERNET for women. Which, like, well, then what is Salon exactly?