BurningbirdGina, who I like and respect, wrote a post at Misbehaving about how she doesn’t …wanna fight anymore — she doesn’t want to have to be louder online in order to be visible. She references helenjane.com who wrote: See there’s been this ongoing discussion on the Internets over where are the ladies? They’re not involved in conferences, their […]
The folks at Misbehaving noted the lack of women in the photos from the Web 2.0 conference. As Liz Lawley wrote: Via Anil, I just saw Jeff Veen’s post on “What do these pictures have in common?” Be sure to click on the “See what you’ve won!” button. Like the first commenter, I wish he’d write the […]
I tried to watch the movie, “The Magdalene Sisters” but had to stop, not because the movie was bad but because the movie made me so angry. If you’re unfamiliar with these spots from hell, they were convents run by the Catholic Church in several countries, and devoted to the ‘penance’ of wayward women. In them, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine from today, played back from memory “So, who are you voting for? Kerry or Bush?” “I’m going to write in McCain.” “Why? That’s throwing your vote away.” “I don’t really care for either Bush or Kerry.” “But McCain’s not running, that will throw your vote away.” “I like McCain. I […]
Several webloggers have been focusing on the use of language in weblogs and how this can form an exclusionary barrier to women (see Body and Soul, des femmes, and Feministe (as well as here)). I remember when I brought this up as an issue with Doc Searls and got slapped down rather royally. It’s good to see the issue being raised by […]