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Yesterday @fp2p wrote a post on a lecture by Stephan Dercon. It’s a bit gushy: Dercon is “brilliant, witty & waspish”, the summary was “wonderful”, “quick, funny & accessible”, “hard to beat”. Duncan did note at the end that few women or people from the South were mentioned (1/)
When @KingsCollegeLon lecturer @_alice_evans (and others) called this out, Duncan challenged her to write an ‘alternative top 10’, chiding her preemptively not to make it a hagiography 
(2/)https://twitter.com/_alice_evans/status/951042983989862400 …
So Alice took time out to write a post for Duncan’s blog. Its thought-provoking well-argued, accessible, & educational. It breaks out of the ‘Top of the Pops’ mould to highlight five big issues. http://oxfamblogs.org/fp2p/the-perils-of-male-bias-alice-evans-replies-to-yesterdays-sausagefest/ … (3/)
It is also gracious and generous. (Why when a woman point’s out a mess is the response to give her a mop and ask her to sort it out? ) https://twitter.com/_alice_evans/status/951149835033464833 …) (4/)
Here is how Duncan presents Alice. She gets no professional introduction. She’s “put together this corrective account” as a response to ‘perceived’ male bias in “Stephan Dercon’s post” (no, Duncan wrote the post). At the end he asks “go on then, who’s she forgotten?” (5/)pic.twitter.com/DOQeBG5SqB
Stefan IS brilliant & witty etc, but I wonder why the adjective cupboard was empty for Alice? Why did Duncan present Stefan’s picks as ‘10 top thinkers’, but the male bias as “perceived”? Why are additional suggestions a sign of Alice’s forgetfulness? https://twitter.com/_alice_evans/status/951357829142798336 … 6/
They are all little things, but they reflect the broader pattern we are talking: of ‘great men’, (and young men that therefore look like they may be on the pathway to greatness) being described, celebrated and thought about in a way that (young) women are not. 7/7
Great thread Maya. Just what I was thinking when I read yesterday's responses.
Thanks Rachel
Thanks for this Maya
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