On my right-hand sidebar, I have 84 different categories for the 2,030 posts I’ve made since January 2004.
Six categories have over 200 posts, and they reflect my primary interests:
1. Feminism (416)
2. Christianity (321)
3. Men and Masculinity (292)
4. Politics (255)
5. Teaching (243)
6. Sexuality (227)
So, over half my posts over the past four years have had to do with Masculinity, or Christianity, or Feminism — or all three. That’s good to know, I suppose.
But at some point, these categories become unwieldy. Who wants to wade through 416 posts? The smaller categories end up being more popular. My most commonly clicked categories are not from these top six subjects; rather they are the following (in order of popularity):
1. Older Men, Younger Women (27)
2. Student Crushes (10)
3. Masturbation (6)
4. Rate My Professors (19)
5. Porn (44)
6. Circumcision (5)
And I get a remarkable number of hits on the ONE post in my Sociopaths category.
Whattya think? More categories? Fewer? What to do, as my archives grow and grow and I show no signs — yet — of flagging?
Oh, this is the 192nd post in the blogging category.
Definitely more categories. It makes it easier to find posts specific to one’s interests. “Feminism” as a category on a feminist blog is ridiculously unwieldy. I know you have a search function, but tags make it easier to know for sure what to look for, or even inform a person about what content is there. Example: I just noticed a post on euthanasia. I had no idea you’d posted on that before.