Comments on: New Yorker Cartoon Asks: Why Aren’t There More Women on Panels? http://www.mediaite.com/print/new-yorker-cartoon-asks-why-women-dont-serve-on-panels/ Mediaite Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=2012.06 By: Danny Groner http://www.mediaite.com/print/new-yorker-cartoon-asks-why-women-dont-serve-on-panels/#comment-9382 Danny Groner Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:56:52 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=44973#comment-9382 Victoria, your point is well taken. I actually intended for it to demonstrate them as equals, but I could see how it could be interpreted as you describe. Victoria, your point is well taken. I actually intended for it to demonstrate them as equals, but I could see how it could be interpreted as you describe.

]]> By: Victoria Cochran http://www.mediaite.com/print/new-yorker-cartoon-asks-why-women-dont-serve-on-panels/#comment-9367 Victoria Cochran Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:33:09 +0000 http://www.mediaite.com/?p=44973#comment-9367 It is a small semantic point, but significant. I wish this sentence had stopped at "at the table" "...come to their senses in recognizing that there could be a place for women at the table alongside them." "alongside" still orients women vis–à–vis men, while men are oriented only to the table, and their presumed right to be there. When we are entitled to a place at the table in recognition of our right to be there, with reference to our expertise on the topic on the table, and not to our standing vis–à–vis men, everyone will have truly come to their senses. It is a small semantic point, but significant. I wish this sentence had stopped at “at the table”

“…come to their senses in recognizing that there could be a place for women at the table alongside them.”

“alongside” still orients women vis–à–vis men, while men are oriented only to the table, and their presumed right to be there.

When we are entitled to a place at the table in recognition of our right to be there, with reference to our expertise on the topic on the table, and not to our standing vis–à–vis men, everyone will have truly come to their senses.

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