{"id":2025,"date":"2018-05-31T23:42:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T23:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.225.164.17\/~chronarchy\/balancing-out-voices\/"},"modified":"2018-05-31T23:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T23:42:11","slug":"balancing-out-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/67.225.164.17\/~chronarchy\/balancing-out-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Balancing Out Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things that I always hope to do is to provide equal space. As a guy, that usually means moderating myself as best I can, and listening when I fail to do so.<\/p>\n

One of the tools I use to check myself (and those around me) is a simple two-button tool called “AreMenTalkingTooMuch.Com.<\/a>” Sometimes I use it in meetings, discreetly, but recently I’ve been going through our DruidsInCars podcast<\/a>, as well as through 3CG videos on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For the podcast, I ran the app on our first episode. Not including intro and outro, Rev. Avende<\/a> spoke for 8:30, and I spoke for 5:48 (40% of the podcast had a male voice). I’ll likely do a later post on stats for the podcast once we have more data, but so far, we seem to be staying conscious and aware of what the episodes look like.<\/p>\n

So, for the most part, we do okay. We, like so many others, fall victim to too many dudes and not enough not-dudes, but after looking through stuff, it doesn’t seem like it’s too far off. And we’re getting better. We also push for less male-only content, or mitigate male-led content with female voices, and push for more not-male content where we can.<\/p>\n

I think this is really, really important, since we are actually serious about wanting more representation (it matters, yo<\/em>), and if we’re not checking ourselves objectively, we’re going to fall victim to our own biases and proclivities.<\/p>\n

Plus, it makes good sense: we always get higher readership, viewership, or listenership when we skew toward women… probably because most Pagan-themed stuff out there remains male-dominated. You can find a guy talking about magic just about anywhere. Finding spaces where men aren’t the primary voice is actually kind of hard.<\/p>\n

Not everything can fit the binary look of “is it a dude, or not a dude?” but there’s enough utility in the tool that it can help us recognize how much space we’re really<\/em> giving over to others.<\/p>\n

Thanks to a post by Jenn on FB that got me thinking about this again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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