Comments on: Does it matter that all our bloggers are currently guys?

By: 2009: Blogging Year in Review « Though Cowards Flinch

2009: Blogging Year in Review « Though Cowards Flinch — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:12:58 +0000

[...] On voting come the EU elections, reviews of this year’s activist events, on primaries, on the gender of bloggers, it’s all intelligent attempts to engage with key issues, even if one disagrees violently now [...]

By: Salman Shaheen

Salman Shaheen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 17:13:25 +0000

Didn’t she once say the Labour Party is worth supporting? I’m not sure that’s true.

By: Reuben

Reuben — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:38:21 +0000

LOL. Btw everything Rhona says is true.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:14:12 +0000

As a token contribution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8142104.stm

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:39:15 +0000

…also, Rhona haha thank you for adding some much needed levity.

By: Jo

Jo — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:37:34 +0000

“I just think grabbing the first woman we can find would be a pointlessly tokenistic gesture.” I agree entirely, and I’m thinking that the very existence of an article openly addressing the absence of female writers dispels any ideas about the current male cast being in any way intentional, or anything more than coincidental. It would be fun to have some token (haha) female writing on occasion if any worthy material finds its way here, but I hardly feel you’re morally obliged to immediately begin auditioning potential candidates.

By: Salman Shaheen

Salman Shaheen — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:06:00 +0000

Hi Paul, thanks for your comment. Really like your blog. Have stuck up a link.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:44:36 +0000

Don’t beat yourself up about it Reuben. You’ve recognised the gap and in so doing effectively done something about it by inviting contribution (as you also do somewhere else on the blog. In the meantime female/feminist commentary on the blog, while it is underrepresented, is only a click away, so keep making the links.

If it’s any consolation, the Bickerstaffe Record is 100% male authorship as well. And white. And middle aged. And middle class (sort of). So compared to the BR you’re paragons of diversity virtue.

Really like your blog in general by the way, though that post form Madrid looks like it might have bee written by a deadlocked gap year twat.

You’re all in Cambridge, right? Whatever happened to the labour club blog – it seems to have gone quiet – or do you not talk to them?

By: Tendai

Tendai — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:50:03 +0000

There’s a great article here that I hope solves this dilemma (assuming it actually is one).
http://www.philosophyetc.net/2009/04/blog-diversity-obligations.html

By: Rhona

Rhona — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:40:46 +0000

“I should stress that the demographics of our blog do not reflect any deliberate decision, that the writers were brought together through social contact”

- I think this substantiates my long-held theory that you ought to stop playing so much dungeons and dragons and go meet more girls. And get a haircut. And stop smoking those shitty roll-ups. And burn your horrible leather trousers. That is all.