The New Yorker allows women to write about food!
(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 a patriarchy denier and/or believe 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)
Hey, not so bad! Courtesy of my mother, stats for the Food Issue 9/3-9/10:
talk of town:
by man – 4
by woman – 1
about man – 4
about woman – 0
neither/both – 1
rest of mag:
by man – 12
by woman – 7
about man – 7
about woman – 3
neither/both – 9
totals:
by man – 16
by woman – 8
about man – 11
about woman – 3
neither/both – 10
One Response to “The New Yorker allows women to write about food!”
i love this game! i’ve been teaching it to my kids since they were little. but i’ve never actually tallied my responses.
what a perfect way to spend the road trip to our relatives for the holidays!
thanks lagusta!
(oh and we usually discuss the nyt or the sfchronicle)
and may i digress:
my kids know that when i ask them to change the radio station or their speakered mp3 player, due to my beiong maxed out on listening to the “wwbs” they know i’m sick of “hearing whiny white boys.”
let’s see there’s radiohead,oasis, arctic monkeys…..
oh my gawd: i googled it to get a picture for you and lo and behold: someone has really named a song and band that.