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It's definitely not the right example to give to impress the crowd around here, but she was basically saying in that part of the article that a feminist backgro

It's definitely not the right example to give to impress the crowd around here, but she was basically saying in that part of the article that a feminist background gives you a different perspective on technology. Makes sense. The comparison of unpaid domestic work and unpaid online content creation was kind of interesting to me.

teddyh 7y ago
Yeah, sure; it’s a mostly great article otherwise. But it shows that the person can’t make a point without tying it to the whole of their other personal political view. But if you want to convince people, you want to compartmentalize as much as possible. Make the case in isolation. If you tie the smartphone problem to left/right politics (whichever side you’d pick), you politicize the issue, and thereby guarantee that ~50% of the public will be against whatever point you are trying to make.
- hurrdurr2 7y ago
  Came here to say exactly this. If you are going to inject overt bias into your articles and turn every piece into political argument fuel then don't call yourself a journalist.
- psweber 7y ago
  That is certainly a defining problem of our era
- beat 7y ago
  Likewise, using a single personal political view injected in an article to dismiss the entire article is what, exactly?
  - teddyh 7y ago
    Why are you under the impression that I dismissed the article? I never dismissed the article. I have taken every opportunity to praise the article. Like you write elsewhere, the use of feminist analysis to examine smartphones is novel, very interesting, and praiseworthy. I completely agree with most of the article. I really don’t have much to add to it. It is merely the throwaway snipe at left/right politics which I deemed unnecessary for the point the article is making (indeed, the article does not use it), and the presence of the snipe is uselessly, and counter-productively, divisive and polarizing.

teddyh 7y ago

Yeah, sure; it’s a mostly great article otherwise. But it shows that the person can’t make a point without tying it to the whole of their other personal political view. But if you want to convince people, you want to compartmentalize as much as possible. Make the case in isolation. If you tie the smartphone problem to left/right politics (whichever side you’d pick), you politicize the issue, and thereby guarantee that ~50% of the public will be against whatever point you are trying to make.

hurrdurr2 7y ago
Came here to say exactly this. If you are going to inject overt bias into your articles and turn every piece into political argument fuel then don't call yourself a journalist.
psweber 7y ago
That is certainly a defining problem of our era
beat 7y ago
Likewise, using a single personal political view injected in an article to dismiss the entire article is what, exactly?
- teddyh 7y ago
  Why are you under the impression that I dismissed the article? I never dismissed the article. I have taken every opportunity to praise the article. Like you write elsewhere, the use of feminist analysis to examine smartphones is novel, very interesting, and praiseworthy. I completely agree with most of the article. I really don’t have much to add to it. It is merely the throwaway snipe at left/right politics which I deemed unnecessary for the point the article is making (indeed, the article does not use it), and the presence of the snipe is uselessly, and counter-productively, divisive and polarizing.