Gratuitous sexism
May 13, 2015 11:06 AM   Subscribe

Congrats, you have an all male panel!
posted by jedicus (1 comment total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Eh, I appreciate a good deadpan Hasselhoffian condemnation of endemic sexism as much as the next person but this seems kinda thin for a post. -- cortex



 
As someone who put together a lot of panels in the past few months, I have to argue that it's usually not sexism, per se, but that a. the pool you have to draw from is often the product of institutional sexism outside the panel-creation process, b. you have very little choice as to who will accept being on the panel.

I chaired a panel yesterday at a conference that we originally hoped to have three women and one man -- best laid plans aside, we ended up with one woman and two men, and the woman fell ill.

So, I'd be sad if my panel got sexism-shamed on the Internet.
posted by General Malaise at 11:14 AM on May 13, 2015 [2 favorites]


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