I would like to see pie charts or The Stranger's reviewers and authors covered. I suspect it would be more balanced than those featured in the article.
Okay, now I may be retarded, but literally the second chart on that page, showing "Cover to Cover Authors 2010" from the Atlantic, showed women outnumbering men 19 to 13.
Don't get me wrong, the overall point still stands, but still...
I'd be interested in charts for The Stranger's different sections, too. I suspect books would be close to even, but music would be a big red circle (or however you show 104% of something in a pie chart).
Lots of commenters at VIDA asking how this can be helped, and of course the answer is going to depend so much on what proportion of the problem is located where--MFA programs, manuscript submission, editing, or publishing. More data, I say!
Another way to look at this is comparing what articles in the Stranger get the most views & comments. As far as comments go presently 9 of the top 10 are for posts by a man.
"Better to do nothing than to engage in localized acts whose ultimate function is to make the system run more smoothly (acts like providing space for the multitude of new subjectivities, and so on). The threat today is not passivity but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active," to "participate," to mask the Nothingness... of what goes on" -S. Zizek
At best, these statistics function like all statistics, as tautologies. At worst, they will be used for the sort of pseudo-activity mentioned above.
"Privilege is blind, and protective. The dominant narrative is male, effectively limiting the abilities of editors, reviewers and readers to see/understand/value what they already know."
Don't get me wrong, the overall point still stands, but still...
"Here I sit
Broken-hearted
Tried to read, but
Couldn't see past all these damn penises everywhere."
:(
Another way to look at this is comparing what articles in the Stranger get the most views & comments. As far as comments go presently 9 of the top 10 are for posts by a man.
At best, these statistics function like all statistics, as tautologies. At worst, they will be used for the sort of pseudo-activity mentioned above.
yup
seriously, who gives a fuck about poetry
"Privilege is blind, and protective. The dominant narrative is male, effectively limiting the abilities of editors, reviewers and readers to see/understand/value what they already know."
But yes, please do a count of your own, Stranger.