I don't see the effectiveness of saying things like "too many white
men involved in videoblogging," or when Brittany asked us to respond
with a video but dropped the disclaimer, "I'll probably get a bunch
of white men to respond," as if the opinions of anyone who happens to
be white and male are not relevant to the conversation.
To me, it seems a far healthier version of Ryanne's complaint would
be something like "Not enough women and people of color are involved
in videoblogging." It's not like I chose to be white or male
(although I guess if I wanted to I could decide to become female.)
Yes, racism and sexism are still very prevalent in our society. Yes,
white males probably don't encounter nearly as much of this
discrimination. But, beyond, acknowledging this injustice and working
towards ensuring that I don't consciously do anything to exacerbate
these problems, I don't see quite what the solution is.
It's a problem that we do have a vlogosphere which is
disproportionately white male. But I'm not about to take down my vlog
in order to help with the balance. That'd be absolutely asinine.
Instead, I think we have much more to gain by looking at why so many
vloggers are white-male and what we can do to encourage and support
people outside of this demographic to get involved. For starters, the
fact that more white males frequently have the economic prosperity to
spend the money and time making a videoblog is probably one major
factor, and as long as their is this sort of disparity across our
real world culture we will probably continue to see more white males
than any other group participating in the vlogosphere.
If we can do something to change this issue of disparity in the real
world, I suspect the vlogs will follow.
Josh
On May 10, 2006, at 5:28 PM, Jay dedman wrote:
>> I just wanted to say my piece about this sillyness, I didn't want
>> to get into a debate, but Men having >the same standards as women,
>> come on Jay, when is that gonna happen?
>>
>
> I hear you...
> I also cringe when Ryanne goes off about too many white men involved
> in videoblogging.
> i feel i got to be guilty.
> Im always like "its not my fault we like technology and cant get
> enough of seeing ourselves".
> in the end, i see her frustration.
>
> I know these kinds of conversations can get into deep semantics, but i
> like these kinds of conversations in the group.
>
> Look, that Golf guy didnt mean to insult anyone.
> That's the ironic part...which probably made Brittney the most angry.
> But he simply became an example of the status quo.
> "If you are vivacious, hot, attractive and you have ability to get
> viewership, well, you could be famous."
>
> yes, sex sells.
> yes, its also bullshit that we keep hold these images up on a
> pedastool.
> im sick of all local news anchors being older, respectable man with
> the young beauty by his side.
> jeez....i dont want all videoblogs to feel they got to have the hot
> girl on it.
> like Brad said...ill vote by not watching.
>
> Phil Torrone is not a hot girl.
> but i love watching him talk about technology.
> http://www.momentshowing.net/momentshowing/2006/05/phil.html
>
> so Brittany lashed out.
> lets not hate.
> if you really dont think she has a point...then ignore her.
>
> jay
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