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Niall ([personal profile] coalescent) wrote2007-08-29 10:18 am

Who's missing?

[Poll #1046886]

Actual answer here. Vote before you click.

EDIT: See also [livejournal.com profile] jlassen's two entries, and Andrew Wheeler here.

FURTHER EDIT: Commentary from [livejournal.com profile] rosefox here and [livejournal.com profile] cristalia here.

It's like the "genderblindness" that always resulted

[identity profile] bellatrys.livejournal.com 2007-08-31 09:02 am (UTC)(link)
in women auditioning for orchestras not being As Good As any of the men auditioning, until orchestras were required to audition applicants truly blind, behind a screen, and found out to their shock that women actually could play just as well as men...
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Re: It's like the "genderblindness" that always resulted

[personal profile] seajules 2007-08-31 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. Not only is blindness not a thing to aspire to, but it so often ends up being code for "blindness to my own socially-cultivated biases."