A million tiny voices

There should be a thousand blogs to read.

At this point, we have an active group of a few hundred whispering to each other in a dark corner of the Internet. Unless someone finds the fathers4equality group, they never see the stories. They never share the anguish, anger, frustration, and outright pain that echoes on this list day by day.
And then it all disappears. Like whispers into a dark foggy night, the words and experience, and knowledge, just goes away.

The Internet is like a great hall where everyone chants over and over what's important to them. Each voice has only the volume of a typed word. In that way, every voice is equal.
Yet if 100,000 are chanting "domestic violence is done by men" and 200 are chanting "women are violent too", the 200 are easily drowned out unless you are listening to them.
There are corners of the hall, too. Places where some people gather to chant the things that they want others to hear, but no one hears. One of those corners is email lists like this. The messages are not public.
They never become a part of the chanting in the great hall, unless somehow someone stumbles upon this small corner.

A free blog on blogger can hold those words and keep chanting them forever. The more often someone adds to the blog, the louder the voices become. But every story stays there, available to anyone who roams the Net. Forever.
A quick search on Google for "domestic violence blog" yields 8,080,000 hits.
Less than a few thousand say anything about women being just as violent as men. Most are just chanting the mantras of disinformation. Many are not well written, but they still add that one voice, the volume of a typed word, to the hall.

Many people on this list complain that their words are not heard, yet all they don't put their voice into the great hall.
Blogs are there to give the average person a voice. Blogs are citizen journalism, and more and more, the stories you find in the conventional press come from blogs. -- And then those stories are written about on blogs again, or comments.
Ever notice that the larger newspaper sites now have blogging?
Microsoft has free blogging for its professional people. So do most large companies.

Blogs are not there just to keep a record. They are there to give each person a voice. We need more of these voices, or we are just fooling ourselves.