How men and women pitch stories
The Awl ran a piece today about inquiries they get for submission, noting the difference between emails they receive from men and from women: The emails from men are pretty direct. The emails from women are often kind of… apologetic! Inquiry letter from a man: “Do you take pitches? Should I just write something and [...]
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The Times: BBC bows to age rage and brings back mature women. Three women over fifty, Fiona Armstrong, 53, Julia Somerville, 62 and Zeinab Badawi, 50, have been hired as presenters on the BBC News Channel. This is a pleasant change in a world in which older women mysteriously disappear from news programs, when women [...]
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When It Pertains To Transpeople, Do You Media Peeps Even Read The AP Stylebook?
One of the things I have griped about constantly since the founding of my blog in 2006 is the rampant use of incorrect pronouns by the media when it comes to writing news stories on transgender people. Before I get started, let me point out what the AP Stylebook, the professional journalist’s Bible, has to [...]
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Aging Is (Not) Unnatural
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross-posted to Body Impolitic. All photographs by Laurie Toby Edison. Some photos below may not be okay for office viewing. After our introductory post here last week, Daisy Deadhead asked if we wrote about age as a body image issue, since we hadn’t happened to mention it in that post. Great [...]
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Conan O’Brien Attacks Trans Women
The above image is from Conan’s Tabloid Moment. In last Thursday’s segment, he sat at a strip bar wondering how to make the moment more embarrassing, then the sign flashed “Trannie’s” and two female strippers arrived and slapped mustaches on their faces. GLAAD has already reached out to NBC on this issue, however; in a [...]
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Will the Real Kelly Clarkson Please Stand Up?
Laurie and Debbie say: Cross Blogged on Body Impolitic Self Magazine isn’t ashamed that they clipped pieces off of Kelly Clarkson’s body for their current cover. They’re proud of it. Lucy Danziger, editor-in-chief at Self, did a whole blog on the Self site about the decision to photoshop Clarkson’s figure. Here’s a picture of Clarkson [...]
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I am not a big reader of celebrity news. I find most of it to be trite nonsense meant to function as junk food for the brain. Living in the 24 hour media world though, I have been unable to avoid having it unwillingly foist upon me. Usually I read the glaring headline and move [...]
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