Tuesday, December 13, 2005

Blood! Gore! Women with Moxie Just when you'd had enough of lame excuses for the absence of women columnists in the media, here's KATHA POLLITT to perfectly capture our exasperation in a letter to Romenesko, the journalists' blog: Another fiesta of handwringing and blaming the dearth of women columnists on women's lack of moxie. I can't stand it! Women now make up half of all med students (Blood! Gore! every day you could kill someone with a tiny mistake!), half of all law students (arguments! crazy clients! people being really mean to you all day long!). Women are increasing their numbers in virtually every male-dominated profession from engineering to politics -- except opinion journalism. For this, and this only, women are just too shy and nice. I don't believe it. The truth is, women are still perceived as a special interest on the op-ed page -- one is enough, just the way one person of color is enough.  MORE HERE And in case you're still not certain about women and moxie, here's today's example. A crazy lady, yes, but definitely high on the moxie scale.  -RH   6:05:01 PM    comment []

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