Comments on: The Beat is right… http://www.djcoffman.com/tikibar/2008/04/10/the-beat-is-right/ "An honest man will never have any other." Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:13:29 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ray http://www.djcoffman.com/tikibar/2008/04/10/the-beat-is-right/comment-page-1/#comment-1144 Ray Fri, 11 Apr 2008 10:35:06 +0000 http://www.djcoffman.com/tikibar/2008/04/10/the-beat-is-right/#comment-1144 Unfortunately, women in any industry are still seen as a massive novelty. Surely they would have been better off with a few feminist writers as well as comic writers/artists than Jenna Jameson? In a lot of ways, <em>this</em> is the big barrier to women doing anything - we have these weird circuses where we parade women around and say "aren't you clever for trying to be as good as a man?". I, too, have a pain in my head now. Unfortunately, women in any industry are still seen as a massive novelty. Surely they would have been better off with a few feminist writers as well as comic writers/artists than Jenna Jameson?

In a lot of ways, this is the big barrier to women doing anything – we have these weird circuses where we parade women around and say “aren’t you clever for trying to be as good as a man?”.

I, too, have a pain in my head now.

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