Well, I was thinking of "token" in the sense of: "it's still ridiculous to think that one name to represent 50% of the population is somehow adequate. But they didn't even manage that..."
And while there probably are better (and ultimately more-productive) ways to explain to publishers/editors how "gender blindness" inevitably leads to "gender inequality," other people are doing that work down-thread. Your point still stands: it makes you angry. It makes me angry, too. And that is a marketing consideration--which Mr. Williams has said he will ignore. Which doesn't precisely do anything to assuage my annoyance.
Frankly, I think the anger such "blindness" engenders is de-emphasized too often. Particularly in a case like this, because my mood and my feelings about the publisher do influence my book-buying, and these are legitimate factors in said book-buying. We're not talking textbooks, we're talking leisure reading. How I feel about it is kind of the point.
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: The real answer
Date: 2007-08-30 03:37 pm (UTC)Re: The real answer
Date: 2007-08-30 03:55 pm (UTC)Re: The real answer
Date: 2007-08-30 04:08 pm (UTC)Re: The real answer
Date: 2007-08-30 04:43 pm (UTC)Re: The real answer
Date: 2007-08-30 04:59 pm (UTC)And while there probably are better (and ultimately more-productive) ways to explain to publishers/editors how "gender blindness" inevitably leads to "gender inequality," other people are doing that work down-thread. Your point still stands: it makes you angry. It makes me angry, too. And that is a marketing consideration--which Mr. Williams has said he will ignore. Which doesn't precisely do anything to assuage my annoyance.
So here we are, back at the beginning.
Re: The real answer
Date: 2007-08-30 06:38 pm (UTC)It's like the "genderblindness" that always resulted
Date: 2007-08-31 09:02 am (UTC)Re: It's like the "genderblindness" that always resulted
Date: 2007-08-31 03:31 pm (UTC)