Could "Crooked Timber" Be One of Those Double Entendres?
One commentor observed that the postings at Crooked Timber seemed to be mostly by men. Some of the reactions follow:
Yes, why aren’t the female members of the blog being forced to write posts to make it more equitable?
I would be right up for getting a few more birds in round here to raise the tone and look decorative. Do you have any suggestions as to how the CT staff could meet more women? I suspect it might not just be me who’s interested.
“The fact that approximately 3% of the December posts are by women is strong evidence for the hypothesis that CT has a comical, embarassing, hypocritical white-male bias for a blog that portrays itself as hip and leftist.” Deb, is it your contention that women are inherently less productive than men? Why do you hate women?
First of all I don’t see why you think “hip and leftist” = “woman friendly” Secondly I think you’ll also find similar skews one way or the other on Right wing blogs. Thirdly, well crooked timber just aint that woman friendly - you’d be better off with smooth pine! :)
Deb,
What would you like, posting quotas? 50% of posts must be made by women and if it dips below that, males aren’t allowed to post until the females members have gotten the average up to 50%. Would that be good enough?Would you prefer that female bloggers who aren’t up to the standards of CT be asked to join or would you prefer that male posters who are up to those standards be told they’re not posters anymore? Perhaps both? To you, are the terms “hip and leftist” synonymous with “equality of results”?
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