#IWD: Gaby Hinsliff – ‘Too many women waiting to be invited to blog, where men just pile in’
Former Observer political editor Gaby Hinsliff, explains why she has taken on the task of guest-editing LabourList for the day, to mark International Women’s Day. She says “there are too many women waiting to be invited to blog, where men just pile in”. Guest-editing allowed her the chance to give new writers and fresh perspectives an airing, she writes.
Read her post in full at this link. An extract:
I’m generally suspicious of anything wimmin-only: it smacks of condescension. My first instinct was to commission something about why a female-only blogging day is a rotten idea.
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My only rule was that the writing should stand on its argument, not its author. Ideally you wouldn’t even notice they were all female: after all, did you notice that every single byline here last weekend was male?
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March 8th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Poor wimmin. So lacking in education compared to us males. Erm, hang on…isn’t it the other way around these days?