Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Sunday, February 20, 2005

The (Non-)Search For Women, Redux

Dori at Backup Brain details the latest version of the seasonal (every three months) phenomenon of men asking (but not really wanting to know) where the women are in a particular field/hobby/venue. This time it's in the form of a panel called "Where Are the Women of Web Design?" Why the men don't just ask the women where they are (and, you know, blogroll them) is still beyond me. At least at comics conventions (and I'm talking pre-Lulu and pre-Sequential Tart) panels like this were never phrased as questions, although far too many readers and con programmers still believe "Women in Comics" refers (or should refer) to fictional characters rather than real people...

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