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I am not sure why this was down voted, as sexism work both ways. Asking a woman to review a man's content is the same thing as asking a man to review a woman's

I am not sure why this was down voted, as sexism work both ways. Asking a woman to review a man's content is the same thing as asking a man to review a woman's content, and most people would not be fine with the second.

SilverBirch 4y ago
Absolutely, most people wouldn't be fine with the second, because most people have grown up in a society where men have held the overwhelming majority of positions of privilege and power. When we're talking about a woman taking looking at a man's work what we're really saying is "That work environment might be so dominated by men that there isn't even a single woman in the office who could provide a different perspective due to her lived experience". The counter "Well a man should look over this work" invests a world in which a workplace could be so dominated by women that they would lack even a single man to offer an opinion on a piece of work. The idea that a reporter at a news organization could have an entire management chain above them of exclusively men isn't far-fetched. The counter - a woman only chain of management would be incredibly rare. It's important that we see the world as it is, rather than as some theoretical thing out that where we can just plug in different variables and go "Well now look!"
- mantas 4y ago
  Why should we even go for opinion of opposite gender? What's next, ensure that all political groups offer an opinion? All socioeconomic classes? All age groups? I'd say opinion of average man and woman are much closer than other splits.
  - SilverBirch 4y ago
    Errr... yes. We should basically be aiming to take into account a wide range of experiences and perspectives when forming our opinions, and by surrounding himself with a clique of bro-y young men Rogan provides a very narrow perspective on the world, and arguably a big part of the reason he's so popular is because he doesn't really challenge the perspectives of his audience.
    - Happos 4y ago
      Hey Joe, we can’t release last week’s episode yet because focus group #12 is running behind.
    - mantas 4y ago
      Yes and no. We have a wide variety of media outlets to expose experience of different groups. That fulfils what you're looking for. You can find opinions of pretty much any group no matter what. What your proposal would do, most groups wouldn't get a chance to translate their experiences. Biggest and/or loudest group would dominate the narrative. Everyone else would be tuned out to bigger or smaller degree. Actually, we already had your solution. Back in TV-dominated era. Only vetted content would make it to the public. With marginal groups silenced. Well, those marginal groups just started tiny podcasts to tell their stories :) What do you think would happen if you take those tiny podcasts and force them to act like big media of the old days? Can you silence some dude streaming from his kitchen?

SilverBirch 4y ago

Absolutely, most people wouldn't be fine with the second, because most people have grown up in a society where men have held the overwhelming majority of positions of privilege and power. When we're talking about a woman taking looking at a man's work what we're really saying is "That work environment might be so dominated by men that there isn't even a single woman in the office who could provide a different perspective due to her lived experience". The counter "Well a man should look over this work" invests a world in which a workplace could be so dominated by women that they would lack even a single man to offer an opinion on a piece of work. The idea that a reporter at a news organization could have an entire management chain above them of exclusively men isn't far-fetched. The counter - a woman only chain of management would be incredibly rare. It's important that we see the world as it is, rather than as some theoretical thing out that where we can just plug in different variables and go "Well now look!"

mantas 4y ago
Why should we even go for opinion of opposite gender? What's next, ensure that all political groups offer an opinion? All socioeconomic classes? All age groups? I'd say opinion of average man and woman are much closer than other splits.
- SilverBirch 4y ago
  Errr... yes. We should basically be aiming to take into account a wide range of experiences and perspectives when forming our opinions, and by surrounding himself with a clique of bro-y young men Rogan provides a very narrow perspective on the world, and arguably a big part of the reason he's so popular is because he doesn't really challenge the perspectives of his audience.
  - Happos 4y ago
    Hey Joe, we can’t release last week’s episode yet because focus group #12 is running behind.
  - mantas 4y ago
    Yes and no. We have a wide variety of media outlets to expose experience of different groups. That fulfils what you're looking for. You can find opinions of pretty much any group no matter what. What your proposal would do, most groups wouldn't get a chance to translate their experiences. Biggest and/or loudest group would dominate the narrative. Everyone else would be tuned out to bigger or smaller degree. Actually, we already had your solution. Back in TV-dominated era. Only vetted content would make it to the public. With marginal groups silenced. Well, those marginal groups just started tiny podcasts to tell their stories :) What do you think would happen if you take those tiny podcasts and force them to act like big media of the old days? Can you silence some dude streaming from his kitchen?