Letters to the Editor
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The New York Times never prints articles about women/gender on the front page?
It's okay for Salon to ghettoize Broadsheet because they don't ghettoize everything.
From that I conclude you believe that the New York Times ghettoizes everything.
Any proof of that?
(Tell the editors that they need to trim the empty space from the first five seconds, and trim down the commercial for Salon, we get it, we don't need it rubbed in our face. We are actively surfing, not sitting to wait for your commercial to end.)
Also, not sure interactivity where a day or two goes by and you respond to one comment with a video response is the most efficient or interesting form of interactivity there is.
Apart from that well done. Have you found that your attractive looks makes your life easier? Has it opened doors for you? I am curious as to whether you notice your female privilege....
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huh
Wow, you're younger than I would have guessed.
Not a huge fan of video blogs. I can read ten times faster than you can talk. And if it's interactivity you're supposedly after, I'm betting you can type faster than you can talk, too.
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A search through the Times Archives...
...shows that Ms. Belkin's "Life's Work" column appeared in Sunday Business until 5/17/07, when it was moved, with notice, to Thursday Styles. This was not a event-driven news story; it was a column, which must appear on an the date and page promised to readers.
To say that this column was "relegated" to its own home of 20+ weeks is ill-informed or disingenuous. A column does not wander through the paper with its author's choice of topic.
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Pink ghetto?
Maybe I missed something but I've never heard Broadsheet referred to as a pink ghetto before. Silly me.
But yeah, I don't quite see the comparison. Broadsheet is a blog devoted to women's issues, hence it talks about women's issues.
The style and fashion section of a newspaper is devoted to style and fashion, hence it talks about... women in business?
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Perhaps like Allie,
I felt like I waited for a morsel. Talk faster, Ms. Clark-Flory. Get to the point and make sure you have a point before standing before the camera.
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Well....
The same reason Broadsheet carries ghettoized articles about vaginas and women who get off lightly while abusing their children.
The women I know as business associates, who work in investment banks, pharma and biotech companies and private equity companies: (a) never talk about their vaginas, (b) have PhDs and MBAs from top schools, and (c) are very sharp from a business standpoint and scientifically.
Is it any wonder the average Broadsheet content consists of articles caviling about being victimized or else white, privileged women complaining about how men are all rapists or sexists? My female colleagues hold perspectives nothing like this, and they manage to be engaging and interesting at the same time they are professional equals.
Could Broadsheet perhaps remove itself from a 70s rape-crisis feminism perspective? One that is as cheezy as bell bottoms and Kool and the Gang? But if Broadsheet did, would they be able to get the same amount of attention and bandwidth the current whiny feminist complaints tend to get from men?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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I like what Anonymous 8:14 wrote.
Since I've written for major feminist mags, I've interviewed major feminists and I've found them to be serious, wise, and cogent. Some feminist bloggers strike me as...young. And a little silly. And seriously self-absorbed behind the curtain of "I deeply, deeply care about all women."
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Again, Holly Capote
I find myself agreeing with you wholeheartedly.
Could this be love?
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RE: A search through the Times Archives...
If a serious discussion about women in business is well within the purview of "Life's Work," why does the column belong in the Style & Fashion section to begin with? I guess you could argue that this piece was ill-suited to the column as a whole, or the column is ill-suited to the section.
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One might ask
What do handbags and cosmetics have to do with business?
Answer - nothing at all. Please read the WSJ if you want serious business journalism.
Sue Shellenbarger has an excellent column on balancing family and career. That might be a better focus for women and men in business who are seeking a better work-life balance than they already have.
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Nope, P.J. it ain't love.
I'm just ranging.
If you always agree with a particular person, you and that person are chained to the same dog(ma)house.
In a world where folks think, we would find ourselves disagreeing and agreeing with the same folks on a regular basis. Rush's dittoheads are the utter antithesis of such folks. I like the wit of the Broadsheet writers, but I think, in the pursuit of copy, that they sometimes strain to be edgy. I think that they sometimes try to grind an edge onto cotton candy.
Or here's another Casablanket metaphor: Some of them thar hills of fulla beans, if you know what I mean, and don't amount to much in this truly dangerous world.
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The video is an inconvenience
Like someone else already said, I can read faster than you can talk. I also prefer text because I can skim and see if I'm interested in the content rather than sitting through the whole thing, and I have to turn off my music and/or TV to watch a vlog. There's simply no benefit to having a video unless a) you have information to convey that requires a visual medium, and b) the reader needs this information. If it's just a blog entry of the same importance as the other Broadsheet items, or if it could be conveyed just as easily in writing, the video is a waste of your bandwidth and everyone's time.
I'll be skipping the video and following the written portion only, thank you.
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OK
It's not love. I rarely find the wit or edginess you describe.
Perhaps it's just a nice cup of coffee in a cafe with you on a rainy day.....
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Either/Or? No, you silly girl. BOTH.
One of the reasons why SOME of us have NOTHING for feminists (preferring either to seek out less shrill womanists or avoiding the whole realm and, upon encountering it, crossing ourselves while crossing the street)? The notion that you are either a woman or Black. Some people, Clark-Flory? Are BOTH. You are implicitly indicating that you don't consider Black women to be women (or that white women are the ONLY women). You and your kind, acting as if YOUR womanhood is the only type that matters! Trust me: it isn't.