Thanks/(No thanks?) to John, or his daughter, or someone, I came across a very "traditionally oxymoronic" blog Feminist Mormon Housewives.
What is actually intriguing to me is the fact that, on their front page, they have posts with hundreds of comments. Posts only a few days old may rival our total comment production for the year!
Now, given that, according to statistics, usually only ~1% of your readers actually comment, this means they must have ~tens of thousands of readers in just a few days.
This got me thinking: given such a small fraction of LDS are prone to reading blogs, and given this blog alone seems to beckon tens of thousands of readers every few days, how large is feminism in the church? Scrolling through the posts it seems they are very active members, as are their readers, so the question extends to: how active is feminism among active members?
I'll go further, I found several LDS science blogs, none receiving nearly as many comments, even if you combined them all. Could you take this to mean there is more interest in feminism among the LDS than science?
Well, some of my assumptions may be wrong. Maybe they beat the odds and 50% of their readers comment. Maybe there are no other feminists in the church other than these women who post and comment. I doubt that, so again, I wonder.
Well, they did do an April Fools Day post about how church leadership was allowing them to set up their own feminist first ward, so at least they have a sense of humor.
