Comments on: Why no women at Kos? We have a life http://www.bloggernews.net/19289 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:16:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: shpilk http://www.bloggernews.net/19289#comment-73730 shpilk Sun, 12 Aug 2007 22:53:06 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/19289#comment-73730 Goodman's observations are quite poor, as anyone who spends more than 30 seconds on dailykos sees that many of the most prominent people posting there are women. 6 out of 14 are women who are deemed to be 'Front Pagers', and nominally 'speak for the site'. Another fine point is that many of the posters are gender anonymous, there is no way to determine gender or sexual preference at dailykos if the person wishes that not be known. If one looks at the panels in Chicago, the panel with the presidential candidates was hosted by a woman, and lots of women were in evidence in every other panel. There is no active effort to keep women out of any aspect of dailykos, but it's interesting that anyone who spends more than 30 seconds analyzing The Boston Globe's editorial balance can see that women, as well as minorities are grossly under represented in the hard news reporting segments of that paper. A paper that sits in a city where blacks make up a roughly quarter of the population, whites only one half of the total but yet have only about 15% of the total staffed by people of color, and not one Asian or Hispanic apparently in evidence should be looking inward and asking themselves these questions. Goodman's generalizations are off base, not supported by facts and are at best disingenuous. One might consider them to be hypocritical, but I'll leave that to the reader to decide for themselves. Goodman’s observations are quite poor, as anyone who spends more than 30 seconds on dailykos sees that many of the most prominent people posting there are women. 6 out of 14 are women who are deemed to be ‘Front Pagers’, and nominally ’speak for the site’. Another fine point is that many of the posters are gender anonymous, there is no way to determine gender or sexual preference at dailykos if the person wishes that not be known.

If one looks at the panels in Chicago, the panel with the presidential candidates was hosted by a woman, and lots of women were in evidence in every other panel. There is no active effort to keep women out of any aspect of dailykos, but it’s interesting that anyone who spends more than 30 seconds analyzing The Boston Globe’s editorial balance can see that women, as well as minorities are grossly under represented in the hard news reporting segments of that paper. A paper that sits in a city where blacks make up a roughly quarter of the population, whites only one half of the total but yet have only about 15% of the total staffed by people of color, and not one Asian or Hispanic apparently in evidence should be looking inward and asking themselves these questions.

Goodman’s generalizations are off base, not supported by facts and are at best disingenuous. One might consider them to be hypocritical, but I’ll leave that to the reader to decide for themselves.

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