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Rebecca Fitzgibbon // Journalist, editor, ghettotastic all-rounder // Arts, opinion, culture columnist for the Mercury newspaper, Tas, Aust // Writer, sub-editor for Warp music & arts mag.

Why The Washington Post's new lady blog is wrong for women

A good post by Jessica Valenti of Feministing.

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Here’s the thing: I will always want more women’s (and feminist) voices in the mainstream media, particularly in politics. There’s an overwhelming byline gender gap and that needs to change. But The Washington Post’s new lady blog, “She the People,” is not a step in the right direction….

There has been discussion this morning in Australia and by expats overseas about these same issues with the launch of Fairfax’s Daily Life (which Twitter critics have renamed #dailywife).

Yes, it’s got some intelligent writers on board, but as “a smart and irreverent take on the news designed for women”, one wonders why women can’t read the same smart and irreverent news as men.

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