Bloggingheads gender update
I just checked the main page of their website. They now have one woman among the 20 contributors featured on the page.
Not good enough at all, guys.
Especially when, down on the right sidebar we have this little bit of icky laddishness:
- What do you call two naked women painted to look like cows? On BhTV, we call it "playful."
Actually, I find the "cow" imagery there really disturbing, as well as the nakedness.
And this is "cutting edge"? And this is the "New America" that Robert Wright's sponsors at the New America Foundation are trying to build?
Pathetic.
In case you're unaware of the context for the article about women painted as cows, it has to do with the controversy over Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski's web site.
Upon pulling up a list of all vlogs uploaded to BH in the past 30 days, I'd say there are enough by women to make it highly unusual that only one is featured on the front page. They may have a good reason (why don't you ask them?) but there's a case to answer.
I understand the "context". That doesn't make the editorial comment on the sidebar there any the less offensive.
Also, yes, maybe having one female among the 20 contributors featured on the front page there is exceptional. All over the weekend there were NONE.
Why don't you complain to managing editor Brenda Talbot, since she's the "lad" responsible for picking BHTV features?