Comments on: Women (Not) In The Media

By: Julia Barry

Julia Barry — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:13:43 +0000

After attending the NCMR as well, I’m really glad to see this conversation going. We all know how damaging mainstream media is to women in its many sexist, objectifying ways, yet by filling a quota of “female” seats on panels that talk about everything except how the media play into gender inequity, we’re skipping some core issues yet again. On a positive note, at this conference I was quite glad to hear women taking part in intelligent, interesting conversation on a diversity of topics – as is the ultimate feminist goal. Women’s voices were well represented while women’s issues may not have been. I’m excited that we’re at the point in feminism that we can even make this distinction – and am glad to have this community pushing the agenda forward!

By: Ellen Bravo

Ellen Bravo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:11:50 +0000

Gender justice in the media aims not just for representational equity but for ensuring that the media cover the real lives of real women. Having reporters — including female reporters — declare that women are “opting out” of the workforce to care for their children distorts the reality for the 8% of women they’re describing and discounts the reality of the other 92%. The resulting inaccuracy contradicts any sense of media justice. When we demand gender justice, we demand the voices of women in their splendid diversity reflecting their own reality — otherwise, the media is not doing its job, and is only furthering the interests of the Big Boys, which harms us all.

By: Veronica

Veronica — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:54:45 +0000

Until feminists understand and act on media justice, we’re going to keep losing battles. Thanks for putting this all together!

By: WIMN’s Voices: A Group Blog on Women, Media, AND… » Blog Archive » Women (Not) In The Media

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:30:30 +0000

[...] This is a cross-post from the Feminist Peace Network blog and as I’m sure readers here will note, many of the quotes are from WIMN bloggers. Many thanks to all of you and especially Jenn Pozner for helping to facilitate this. [...]