Comments on: Man as the Default, Woman as the Other: Fox News’ Ridiculously Pointless Sexism http://viewfromll2.com/2010/02/25/man-as-the-default-woman-as-the-other-fox-news-ridiculously-pointless-sexism/ Thoughts on law, economics, and all things slightly geeky. Thu, 31 May 2012 07:01:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Susan Simpson http://viewfromll2.com/2010/02/25/man-as-the-default-woman-as-the-other-fox-news-ridiculously-pointless-sexism/#comment-396 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:48:17 +0000 http://viewfromll2.com/?p=1273#comment-396 Yeah, I need to see if I can fiddle with the comment settings — as far as I can tell, if a single link is included in a comment, it automatically goes to moderation.

And I heart Sociological Images. It’s on the blogroll here, partially because I am in awe of how they manage to post about a gazillion times a day.

]]> By: Joe T. http://viewfromll2.com/2010/02/25/man-as-the-default-woman-as-the-other-fox-news-ridiculously-pointless-sexism/#comment-395 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:15:27 +0000 http://viewfromll2.com/?p=1273#comment-395 The blog software keeps eating my comments, so I’ll just tell you to go to Sociological Images and search for the following phrases:

“Facebook’s neutral avatar”
“default avatars”
“stick figures who parent”
“the neutral and the marked”
“gendering online degree programs”

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[Edit by SMS: The original comment, eaten by the spambot, is here:

There is a blog called Sociological Images that has addressed this tendency for (usually white) males to be the default, women and nonwhites to be “other”, and child care always to be associated with women rather than men.

http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/04/15/who-is-facebook/

http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/05/04/default-avatars-a-collection/

http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/05/18/stick-figures-and-stick-figures-who-parent/

http://contexts.org/socimages/2008/04/01/the-neutral-and-the-marked-a-primer-for-your-kids/

http://contexts.org/socimages/2010/01/04/gendering-online-degree-programs/ ]

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