At least in the blogger world… So you want to open up a website and draw a crowd? Want to have massive numbers of visitors each day? Simple. Be born a woman. The vast majority of web surfers are still men. Men who have the unfortunate (or fortunate) issue of thinking with two heads rather than one. So if you have boobies.. and you’re a woman (we’re not talking about the movie dodgeball.. don’t go there), You can build up a fan base fairly quickly.

Men don’t even care what you write about as long as you show some pics, or a hint of nudity every once in a while. Bamn, instant readers.

I’m not saying that sites that men write don’t get tons of readership. But those sites take an uncanny amount of time. I mean IMAO has got to be a full time job. But Helen, who posts usually once per day and doesn’t dwell on the site continues to grow in her readership. Part of the reason for her success is that her posts are very in depth and descriptive and very very personal. Although, some of us actually care, others just go waiting to see new pics and really don’t read her blog.

Other sites like Hot Abercrombie Chick! are very insightful and well written, but its this authors opinion that if she was Hot Abercrombie Dude! She wouldn’t’ even have a sliver of her 109k hits that she does now.

About a 9 months or so ago Dana posted her Bloggers with Boobies for the anti-feminists. These are the chicks who are proud to be women bloggers and proud of their boobs.

It’s not a cult; you won’t be asked to vote in a bloc or wage war on the Bloggers With Pee-Pees or anything; it’s just a badge of pride for all strong, self-assured female bloggers (like me) who refuse to be ashamed about their femininity. We’re the anti-feminists.

These are the women that have it easy. Now they could say that oh, they get harassed every day by horny men and its not as easy as it looks. But we’re not talking about harassment here, were talking about how easy it is for you to get readership on a daily basis just because you have boobies.

In the process of writing this it was made apparent to me that there was a conspiracy afoot. To explain: I have investigated something that I thought as just a myth or rumor before but now, with more concrete evidence I am stunned. Ok, not so much. The internet is full of anonymity. I will not personally say anything until I have unequivocal proof. Which I may never have. Anyway, It appears that there has been some controversy weather or not Hot Abercrombie Chick(HAC) actually is a chick at all. This guy has it out for her/him. He even went so far as to post IP address traces of the guy who could be using pictures of a girl and posting his own thoughts. Justin, goes on in his research about how he determined that HAC is a dude.

Daniel Zeigenbein last updated his website on January 14th, 2004. You may think he had abandoned it, but it is more likely that he has little time to maintain it anymore with all the work he is doing as the Hot Abercrombie Chick.

About 2 weeks after his last update, the HAC was thrust into the blogosphere. Since then, it has been a relentless onslaught of drudging articles about god, philosophy, evil, and ontology. Concurrently, the HAC was trolling every weblog that had anything, or even nothing, to do with the content on the HAC website and posting comments. Copious comments. Off-topic comments.

Traceable comments.

Since my last post about the HAC’s use of an anonymous proxy server, Cameron Marlow and I have procured the IP source addresses from the proprietors of certain A-List weblogs for comments made by the HAC.

These comments were made during the period known as “before all rational webloggers determined the HAC was a hoax.” It was therefore also known as the “hoaxster’s careless phase.”

This shows us two things. One: You can never fully know who is posting through the internet. Two: Daniel posing as HAC got more hits than he could ever imagine because suddenly he had boobs. Now as stated before, he could merely be cashing in on the idea that women bloggers get more readership or she could just be caught up in a vicious conspiracy by some stalker.

My post wouldn’t be complete without mentioning Gigglechick(tm). She has slowly gained a hefty following as well and, as of recent events surrounding the officespace wars fiasco, has jumped in status of hits and readership.

This site has been around for oh.. 4 years and aside from the ups and downs of the site, really only averages a fraction of the readership that the other sites do. We’ve put our heads together and come up with a couple ideas in order to have what we’d like to call a “readership drive”

a. We actually write longer and better articles
b. Hire a hot chick to take pics and write on occasion (or we’ll write and we’ll just claim its her)
c. Just have a wet t-shirt contest
d. The contest would consist of women bloggers and there would be some sort of incentive… er prize..
e. Scrap a,b.

As you can see, we at wetwired simply want to see boobies. Stay tuned for details of the wetwired t-shirt contest.

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