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Jan. 12th, 2009

  • 10:37 AM
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via [info]tanaise, [info]benpayne offers "Some useful answers to questions about gender inequality: a handy guide for editors."

So it's happened again. Once a year or so some chick gets a bee in her bonnet about the whole "more men than women are published" thing.

I know! AGAIN!!!

Wasn't it enough that we pretended to listen last time??

Every year we men try our best to placate them. Following is a useful rejoinder that I recommend.

"Hey, relax. Don't worry. Look at the monkey."

Sometimes, though, that's not enough. So here are a couple of other useful arguments you might like to utilise. I've found they silence even the most ardent whinging...


I'd roll on the floor clutching myself, but it hasn't been swept.
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[info]tithenai wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:43 pm (UTC)
...Is ... That a joke? Like, a deliberate one? Please tell me it is.

I just finished quasi-apologising for the fact that the latest issue of Goblin Fruit is an all-woman one. I ... Um. Wow.
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:52 pm (UTC)
Did you read the post?

Do you still have questions?

*g*
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[info]mkhobson wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:47 pm (UTC)
I think this is very much a case of "Don't feed the trolls."
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:54 pm (UTC)
MK? it's a joke.
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[info]jimhines wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:49 pm (UTC)
I had a blood sugar crash last night, and got on LJ to kill time while I waited for my medicinal chocolate to kick in. While I was reading, I came across one of his other posts on the subject. I read it three times, and finally gave up, assuming my low blood sugar was just messing with my brain.

Except that my sugar is back under control today, and neither his logic nor his writing has gotten any better.
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:53 pm (UTC)
Um.

Jim?

It's satire.
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[info]themaskmaker wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:49 pm (UTC)
Waaaaaahhhh! I love it. Especially the recommendation that I put more cars in my work, and less crochet.
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[info]jaylake wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:59 pm (UTC)
Crocheted automobiles - the ultimate in Green transportation.
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[info]themaskmaker wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 04:04 pm (UTC)
It could be done, too. Crocheting with wire for the win! Hmmm..... *wandering off, thinking about wire cars*
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[info]casacorona wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 04:06 pm (UTC)
Car cozies!
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[info]amy_paul wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 04:27 pm (UTC)
Now I know what my co-workers are doing with all that knitting they drag about! They're making new cars!
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[info]vatine wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 05:15 pm (UTC)
But, wait, ah... crochet, it is all understandable now.
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[info]magicnoire wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:53 pm (UTC)
But I already write with my left hand!
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[info]jrthro wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 05:19 pm (UTC)
Me too, so that part was pretty confusing.
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[info]jhetley wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 03:59 pm (UTC)
As with politics, you have to get further and further over the edge to satirize Real Life.
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[info]cougarfang wrote:
Jan. 13th, 2009 01:32 am (UTC)
And sometimes, even that isn't enough. (Note the date of publication.)
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[info]dd_b wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 04:01 pm (UTC)
The thing that gets me about this each time around is that I think of sf and fantasy editors as primarily female. That's certainly not true at the Hugo nomination level, and it's less true in magazines it looks like, but it was true in the ones Pamela and friends worked with mostly, and lots of surrounding ones. Haven't tried to do an actual count; I'm more into the amusing dissonance than the statistics this morning.
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[info]stillsostrange wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 04:04 pm (UTC)
Monkeys! Where? I want a monkey! Especially if he brings his own fez.
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[info]liddle_oldman wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 04:21 pm (UTC)
*snicker*
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[info]thesaucernews wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 04:52 pm (UTC)
You know what I don't like? When chicks write about chicks talking to other chicks... and those chicks aren't talking about dudes. What am I supposed to relate to, then?

That's why the chicks don't get published... they waste too much time not focusing on how much better we are at them at everything, like basketball and gettin' it done, except childbirth which is icky anyway and doesn't count as a skill because they have to do it (and Arnold Schwarzeneggar gave birth in Twins when that dude was so alpha anyway) and how much they want to sleep with us.

In space. Then stuff blows up the end we win.

P.S. you ate the applesauce.
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[info]deakat wrote:
Jan. 12th, 2009 04:53 pm (UTC)
Hee!
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[info]pecunium wrote:
Jan. 13th, 2009 04:14 am (UTC)
I made a major mistake. In the course of following [info]'s links, I read the benpeek stuff.

I discover this cafe is sadly lacking in Brain Bleach.
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[info]matociquala wrote:
Jan. 13th, 2009 04:17 am (UTC)
But Ben Payne's stuff is the antidote. Conveniently, I bring it to you!
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[info]ex_benpayne119 wrote:
Jan. 13th, 2009 08:17 am (UTC)
Thanks. Glad you liked it :-)

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[info]callistra wrote:
Jan. 15th, 2009 05:31 am (UTC)
Gosh you get about the place Ben!
:-)
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