Their core objective is what they call “gender justice in media.” That means that they are interested in far more than curbing online harassment. They want gender quotas for all media businesses, equal representation for women in, say, video-games, gender parity in employment in journalism and in the stories themselves. They are outraged by the following: Less than 1 in 100 of classical pieces performed in concert in 2009-2010 were written by a female composer (and 1 in 15 was written by Beethoven!). Women make up 2% of the standard repertoire of pieces (Repertoire Report 2009-2010). Less Beethoven – more, er, women! The crudeness of their identity politics is of a piece with their analysis. - Andrew Sullivan via Glenn Reynolds dish.andrewsullivan/2014/11/10/the-sjws-now-get-to-police-speech-on-twitter/
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:17:21 +0000
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