Lisa, I've done a lot of thinking about this. It's not that there aren't women blogging in the US about global, political, social issues. There are. What I think is going on is that the women writing about personal stuff, like Heather of Dooce and Julie of Julie/Julia, are so wide open they get wild visceral responses from other humans. This is great in some ways - share, baby, share - but it also overshadows the women writing about politics (other than Wonkette) etc. Most men do not share in this way, so the most popular boy bloggers are writing about programming, social networks, or the liberal media. ;) Along this line, have you met Suw yet?