3.19.2005

invisible potted plants

I see it's been several weeks - ack, possibly months! - since I quoted the brilliant Katha Pollitt, my fellow New Yorker and abortion-access activist. In this week's Nation she writes about the ridiculous dearth of women on the Op-Ed pages of major US print publications.

It's really worth your time to read the whole column. Bloggers might be especially interested. The blogosphere has changed a lot of things about media. Sexism isn't one of them.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Intereting news from the Conservative convention in Canada...

"The historic vote at the party convention left anti-abortion advocates with no mainstream political vehicle for the first time ever"

http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/EdmontonSun/News/2005/03/20/967007-sun.html

ALPF

laura k said...

Wow. Wow wow. Thanks for thinking of wmtc. I'm going to read more about it.