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/)
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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
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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/
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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
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I'm so glad there's been so much solidarity and push back against this post. Very unfortunate that some still do not see the problem.
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