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Where are the women?
KUOW's Weekday program is discussing blogging. Twenty minutes into the program the discussion had been exclusively between the (male) host, Steve Scher, and his two (male) guests, Mickey Kaus and Matthew Baldwin.
The first female voice finally on the program was Anita Rowland, who spoke about her own weblog and about the blogging culture in general. Too quickly, though, the host directed discussion back to the male guests. I'm glad they've kept Anita on-air so she can keep making comments, but the discussion is still being shaped and controlled by the three men they started with.
In November of last year, The New York Times published an article by Lisa Gurnsey on the gender gap in blogging. Gurnsey comments, "women are, in fact, blogging in big numbers. Mr. Rosenberg, who keeps an eye out for new bloggers and links to them from his Salon.com blog, estimates that the ratio of women to men is something like 40-60, or perhaps 50-50." With all these women blogging, how is it that KUOW couldn't find one to be an official guest on the show?
I'm rather disgusted. I would have expected our NPR affiliate, of all venues, to challenge the marginalization of women's voices.
taro root
- Go spend a week in Hawaii.
- Buy a taro root as big as your two fists together.
- Cut it in quarters lengthwise, and then cut the quarters into 1/4 to 1/8 inch slices.
- Make a marinade of several tablespoons olive oil, 1/3 cup soy sauce, 1/4 cup rum, three cloves of garlic (minced), one teaspoon dried tarragon, and the juice of one lemon.
- Arrange the pieces of taro in a single layer in the bottom of a baking dish.
- Add slices of onion or bell pepper to baking dish.
- Pour marinade over taro.
- Marinate for at least 12 hours.
- Go snorkeling.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Roast taro for twenty minutes,.
- Using a spatula, turn each piece over.
- Roast taro for twenty more minutes.
- In blender, mix rum, vanilla ice cream, fresh mango, and pineapple juice. Drink while delicious smells fill the kitchen.
- Serve taro over rice.
- Come home and gloat.
Okay, steps 1, 9, 14, and 16 are optional. :)
scanner shopping
I bought myself a film scanner over a year ago, and I'm still delighted with it. Periodically, people have asked me how to decide on what scanner *they* should buy. [more]
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