Comments on: The Atlantic settles for less http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/ Reading and writing in the heart of Virginia Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:34:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Elizabeth http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8677 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:17:47 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8677 Men *are* better chefs.

]]> By: Gary Glass http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8676 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:15:05 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8676 Clearly men are better authors. Clearly men are better soldiers. Clearly men are better presidents. Clearly men are better fathers. Clearly men are better CEOs. Clearly men are better computer programmers. Clearly men are better cobblers. Clearly men are better jerks. Clearly men are better murderers. Clearly men are better surgeons. Clearly men are better architects. Clearly men are better at practically everything. Except. Maybe. Motherhood. Maybe. And once we get this cloning thing figured out, we’ll be better at THAT too. Nyah!

]]> By: Catherine http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8675 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:51:20 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8675 Also from Albert Greco’s BOOK PUBLISHING INDUSTRY (Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates):

“some relatively available data suggest that women hold a sizable number of jobs in this industry; however, the vast majority of them are in lower and middle managerial tiers (with corresponding wage scales).”

]]> By: Catherine http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8674 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 17:36:46 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8674 “Men are simply better authors”? Did you really mean to say that out loud?

]]> By: imani http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8671 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:17:52 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8671 “Going by strict analysis of raw numbers” based on literary prizes, the truly objective, sure fire way to discover the best being published in literature today! As I’m sure you’d agree, having won tons and tons.

Gosh, Cliff, you’re so transparent. Someone needs a testosterone fuelled, man strengthening hug.

]]> By: Cliff Burns http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8670 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:58:15 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8670 From Albert Greco’s BOOK PUBLISHING INDUSTRY (Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates):

“By the early 1970′s females held half of all editorial positions, reaching the 66% range by the early 1990′s”.

I wonder what the numbers is today…

]]> By: Cliff Burns http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8669 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:36:42 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8669 Men win more awards than women? Wouldn’t this seem to indicate men are simply better authors? I mean, just going by strict analysis of raw numbers? Which is why, perhaps, there are prizes devoted to ONLY female writers; since they can’t compete on a level playing field…etc. Or maybe there’s this cabal of males who meet in secret to choose the winners and…

To quote one of your previous post-ers: “You can wave statistics around until the cows come home but until you can show any real, substantial, significant causation you’re just flagging a pet issue like every other politically correct nonny with a favourite hobby horse.”

Experience has shown me one reality, you folks another. So be it.

]]> By: patiomensch http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8668 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:35:50 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8668 Pwned

]]> By: Catherine http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8667 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:34:43 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8667 21st century book award winners—male:female author
Bram Stoker Awards (novel) 3:0
Caldecott Medal 9:0
Edgar Awards (novel) 5:1
Hugo Awards (novel) 4:3
Man Booker Prize 5:3
National Book Awards (fiction) 4:4
National Book Critics Circle Awards (fiction) 4:2
Nebula Awards (novel) 2:3
Newbery Medal 3:6
PEN/Faulkner Award 6:2
Philip K. Dick Award 4:0
Pulitzer Prize 6:2
Spur Awards (novel) 6:2

current Amazon contemp lit/fict top 100 61:39

Sorry, I didn’t break them down by race, but you can be certain that white men still rule.

]]> By: On the up side « The Books of My Numberless Dreams http://cvillewords.com/2008/02/13/the-atlantic-settles-for-less/#comment-8665 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:55:27 +0000 http://cvillewords.wordpress.com/?p=781#comment-8665 [...] don’t take a turn for straightforward hilarity until one reads the comment section over at Charlottesville.  One struggling rebel writer/martyr used the opportunity to make an [...]

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