6 posts tagged “women”
This is a transcript of a discussion I had today on YouTube about this video, 'current (Australian) indigenous soccer players'. Emphasis mine.
Equal representation in sport is a particular passion of mine. You can find my project, Sporting Sheilas on Facebook.Me: What about Lydia Williams & Kyah Simon?!?! The both represent their country. In the process of highlighting indigenous players all you've done is shown your sexism... not a good thing for a woman!
A-Grade Student: First of all, I did not leave them out because I am sexist. As I am an American and do not know who any Indigenous players are, I had to trust to Internet to help me find some and Wikipedia did not list those two women. Second of all, if you can find me videos of those women then I will be more than happy to include them in my video. Trust me, I am far beyond sexist. My video is just limited to what media was available to me.
Me: Perhaps not but that's how it comes across. You could always change the title to 'Current Male Indigenous Soccer Players' and maintain accuracy. You now have their names (and I'll send you video if I find any)... I'm surprised Lydia did not come up as she has won a Deadly Award for her contribution. I would also suggest that Wikipedia is not your best source ;-)
A-Grade Student: The problem is this presentation is due Tuesday and I also have a paper that I need to be working on so I took the easy way out. I realize Wikipedia is not a good source, but when you are crunched for time and a Google search for "Indigenous soccer players" brings up as a first result a Wikipedia page listing multiple players of Indigenous descent (granted they are all male) then it is really hard to pass that up.
I've practically spoon fed her information on female indigenous soccer players just add Google and voila! A more balance presentation. Clearly accuracy is not her aim and she's relying on the ignorance of her audience not to pull her up on it.
Microblogging - so much easier and shorter and I don't have to think so hard on it.
Facebook - now you know who I really am. Cover blown.
Reading blogs for work.
Reading blogs for play.
...though it can be a fine line.
And many other things.
Oh, and I've started a project on Australia's national women's sport teams. Because it's about bloody time someone did.
I may or may not be back.
Girls who like balls look like boys who love soccer... or something to the tune of some song I heard once. Anyway, am looking forward to checking out Offside; an Iranian film about a bunch of gals who dress as boys to get into a soccer match (women are banned from men's sporting events in Iran). Just don't mention who Iran beat to qualify for the 1998 World Cup. I'm not bitter.
The film is due for release in the States in April but thanks to the marvel that is the Internet, you can watch the whole thing online... fantastic if you speak Iranian.
Watch the trailer here (English subtitles).
Via After Ellen.
I was at a Marketing conference in Sydney last week when someone asked the 'woman' question; in this case, "why are there so few female creative directors?" All the men on stage (and they were all men) laughed it off, shuffled their feet, offered up India as an example* of equality in the workplace and we moved on to the next question. The following panel of 'experts' were so chauvinistic and condescending (to the 'young' men as well) that I'm supposing they would have answered the question with, "what are you doin' out of the kitchen honey?" I'm talking to you Harold Mitchell. Thank goodness for Amy Smith, Chief Executive of JWT - you rock and I'll be coming to work for you when I get my Masters.
A similar question was raised in NY, read about it here at Design Observer.
I ask myself, do I WANT to try and get ahead in this competitive dog eat dog homo erotic pseudo mateship bully boy playground environment? What is 'ahead'? Can you ever get to 'the top' and is 'the top' necessarily a good place to be? Perhaps if more men asked themselves these questions and developed their own definition of success rather than compare the size of their wallets/cars/penises we could begin to build a more equal environment.
* would YOU be happy climbing the corporate ladder knowing it was because of the women in your servitude who had no shot at the opportunities you do because of the caste they were born into? Equality for you is not gained at the expense of others.
...to the female Pintubi artists who are having an exhibition opening tonight in Alice Springs.
I don't know if this image and artist is included in the exhibition but it gives you some idea of the style of some of the work:
This image is copyright Papunya Tula Pty. Ltd
Western Desert art is probably my favourite style of Austrailan Aboriginal Art, it has a graphical quality that appeals to me as a designer. Further information can be found at the Art Gallery of NSW and if you do a google search of Papunya Tula it returns quite a few results.
