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...with great interest for two days. There too I have found a focus on the pink bow and not much criticism of the actual content of the blog.
And I guess we're all just repeating ourselves now. I do understand the worry about ghettoization, but I don't think Broadsheet segregates news about women, I think it liberates it.
Just because it's about or by a woman doesn't mean it automatically goes in Broadsheet, as today's issue should demonstrate. Harriet Miers was our cover all day. Three movie reviews by Stephanie Zacharek ran, as they always do, in Arts and Entertainment. Broadsheet just has more news in it. And it's not hidden. It's one click away, like any feature story.
Here's what Broadsheet enables us to do: get information about a women's strike in Iceland, a study about the benefits of mammograms, the banning of feminist films in Iran, and Sheryl Swoopes coming out into today's issue of Salon. Any one of these stories may well become a feature in the future -- just as stories that are covered in War Room also get reported and dissected as features in the rest of the magazine. But while we don't have a reporter in Iceland, for instance, to report a full piece about the strike in a timely way, we think it's a story that would interest Salon readers, and now we have a way to point them to it.
We have stated very openly that Broadsheet is for everyone. If your take is that the color pink sends a message that men aren't welcome, does it follow that a column with blue highlights will keep women out? I am worried about the man who does not open a link because it is pink, and I am worried about the men and women who assume that that logic makes any sense at all.
I definitely hear that the people here and at TT don't like the pink, don't like the notion of a separate area with the word "women" attached to it. But to complain simply about the way we've set the table and not the meal we're serving seems to me to be as superficial a gesture as the ones you're telling us we're making. If you hate the actual food, speak up!
