The New Yorker whiteboy watch: August 6 issue
The grisly breakdown:
Male contributors: 15
Female contributors: 3 – one great Elizabeth Kolbert feature, 1 poem, 1 short Talk of the Town piece.
(The NYerWbW is a regular feature whereby my mother and I keep track of the male/female breakdown in The New Yorker magazine. It’s stunning and shocking and not at all surprising, unless you are one of those people who thinks things are perfectly equal in our society and/or that women are naturally inferior writers. Yo! If you would like to keep track of the white/nonwhiteness of the magazine’s contributors on a regular basis, please let me know – photos of common contributors can be found here)
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