Letters to the Editor
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"Not that informed"
The interviewee said it best herself.
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Men & Women Different? Say it ain't so!
I hate these kinds of pieces postulating that men and women might be different. Obviously they are. Most people learn this quite early.
Then I'm also annoyed when these 'differences' are slanted as to be negative to one side or the other. How silly. Why not ask: Are women more prudent than men?
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Wrong question?
When I read, "Are women less willing to speak their minds?" I immediately thought, "Are women less willing to appear on camera?"
It's not just fears of "not looking pretty enough." There are also legitimate fears about personal safety and how your image might be used in appropriate sexual images online.
The women I know have a lot to say and are eager to say it. Less willing to speak their minds? Hardly.
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yeah, so what?
I find that women are more reluctant to share their opinions publicly, particularly on such provocative questions like "Is Hillary Clinton a monster?" Women in general are more likely to tell someone what they want to hear than give a brutally honest answer. This could be called politeness or it could be called duplicity. The two overlap. I'm a man, but I too am reluctant to share such opinions publicly, so what does that make me?
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Hard to tell from this clip...
but if "Is Hillary Clinton a monster?" is a representative question, as a man I would not want to talk to the interviewer. Maybe women are just less tolerant of this kind of idiocy.
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does anyone consider?
women are just too busy to care.
Interveiw Lady: HEY!! Can I ask you a broad and totally unimportant question?
Woman-on-the-street: Screw you! I just got off of an Later-then-usual shift and I have two kids waiting outside of my locked house that I have to get to before the starve or are abducted. NO THANK YOU!!
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oops
they...not the...
I'm a dumb broad.
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This just in . . .
. . . some women won't want to be accosted by strangers on the street!
Maybe these women are simply more assertive in their refusal to spend time chatting with somebody they don't know, from a publication they've never heard of.
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I agree with mizbinkley...
"It's not just fears of "not looking pretty enough." There are also legitimate fears about personal safety and how your image might be used in appropriate sexual images online."
Yes! This! Cyber-stalking and unauthorized manipulation of online images are BIG problems. Why compromise your personal safety and reputation for the sake of appearing on some lame quasi-news web show?
FWIW I've been 'cyber-stalked' and it took years to shake the offender off my trail. Frankly, you couldn't pay me enough to open up that can of worms again.
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Women are Less Likely to Want to Appear Stupid on Camera
This video seems to imply that Campbell is concerned that women are not opinionated enough, or that they generally shy away from self expression. This is not so far-fetched, and is a major concern in company boardrooms, and apparently is a major concern for streeters too.
But it's more than that - Campbell's approach is aggressive and unprofessional - with questions like: "is Hillary a Monster?" - no one in their right mind would answer her...unless you're an idiot (yes, I am talking about you, guy in blue hoody).
Thankfully, my *vast* media experience (i work in college radio, do a bit of writing, and have had some brushes with TV productions) taught me that some people need to be "eased in" to having a conversation, rather than being attacked by 6' worth of supermodel flesh. That way, Campbell might even attract some worthy opinions from both men and women, rather than just a few guys who had too much beer.
My point? Campbell should go back to whatever communication or journalist training ground she sprung from, and ask for a refund.
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No time, no interest
I run when I see one of these people I run too. If you stopped for that sort of thing you’d never get from point A to point B – and when I’m on my way home from work nothing slows me down. It’s certainly due to the fact that she’s pretty that she’s even getting men to stop for her. And it’s no small wonder the women with these men are annoyed to be held up.
I think she’s really misinterpreted the reaction of the women in these clips. I watched for body language, sans the sound, and I saw women looking at her with distrust and annoyance. That little side step and downward smile women keep giving her? That’s the same uncomfortable move I use to get away from crazy people who start chatting me up. And it turns out that’s the move to use with her – because if look straight ahead and keep walking she’ll just chase after you with her mike and then use that footage without permission.
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Same in the classroom
Certainly there is a lot going on here, and many of the previous posters have totally valid points.
But we see the same phenomenon in graduate school discussion classes (my experience is in the natural sciences). Female grad students are much less likely to raise their hands in response to a professor's question -- this is especially pronounced in the first few years of their PhD. Whereas male students will raise their hands and waffle on about any topic, even if they really don't know what they are talking about. Generally, it comes down to women wanting to be sure of their information/opinion/facts before putting themselves out there. Women seem to have a greater fear of "sounding stupid" than their male peers.
A similar phenomenon is observed in publication of scientific papers -- male scientists are much more likely to submit rough/quickly done manuscripts for publication than their female peers, who tend to take much longer and be more perfectionist before allowing their work to be seen by others.
Honestly, I don't think it has anything to do with women not having opinions or being less informed -- it's mostly about not wanting to appear ignorant.
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Typo alert
When I wrote, "how your image might be used in appropriate sexual images online," I was, of course, missing an "in".
That should be "how your image might be used in inappropriate sexual images online."
Look It Up, glad you shook your cyber-stalker.