Breastesses On WIRED Magazine Cover…Again
Here’s a blog post by regarding the lack of women & their more cerebral contributions to technology on the covers of Wired magazine. This one, by Cindy Royal, is worth your time.
What do you think? Boobs sell, right?
Or as Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired wrote in his comments: “This is an issue we wrestle with all the time, and it reflects a combination of things, ranging from not enough high-profile women in the tech industry who are recognizable to sell a cover (every month we cover test a list of names to see which ones people know well enough to want to read about them), to your sense that if we go outside the tech industry for women that this somehow doesn’t count.”
To be fair Anderson makes other points and appears open to discussion about how to balance the sexes in tech.
Read on here.
I’m glad somebody took Wired to task for that ridiculous cover. Was there really no other way to illustrate the subject matter of Begley’s article than with a close-up of an enormous pair of breasts? The inside photos and illustration were equally lame. How about showing us one of the women who has supposedly benefited from the breast reconstruction procedure described in the article, if it’s really so great? But then Wired would have had to show an ounce of imagination and integrity. And there were $$$ to be made.
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