For Stacey Kim, a 36-year-old book editor who lives in the Boston suburb of Arlington, Massachusetts, emotional blogging has become a reflex. On April 11, 2007, Kim curled up next to her husband and held him as he succumbed to a long battle with pancreatic cancer. The next morning, she went online to post about the experience.

“It cemented the reality that he was gone,” Kim says. “I got hundreds of comments back that were all so loving and supportive. It gave me a really tangible sense of community.”

She blogs about life as the widowed mother of 22-month-old twins at snickollet.blogspot.com.

Um…yeah. The article also talks about a chick whose blog was about the 90 days leading up to her committing suicide (though she ultimately punked out and said it was an “art project”…coward). Lost your husband and have to raise two newborn twins? Well…uhhh, my diet cola with lunch was a little flat. So you and I, not so different.

Blogging about personal matters seems to be more of a feminine pursuit. In the 2004 study “Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging,” researchers examined more than 37,000 blogs on blogger.com. Their conclusion: Male bloggers tend to write about politics, technology and money; women are more likely to blog about their private lives and use an intimate style of writing.

…

Thanks. Give me a little warning the next time you slap me in the face with your genitals as a result of “research” and “facts”, CNN. On the plus side, the only way you can define my writing as intimate is if you feel that using the words “C” and “f” a lot brings you closer to me. And if you do, I love you and you need to take me away to a tropical island.