A bold statement, I know, but it explains so much, including why all the women who ran for the leadership were overlooked in favour of Jeremy Corbyn. It wasn’t malicious; they just couldn’t be seen. Obviously, it might not just be the men of the Labour Party to whom women are invisible, which would explain why you’ve heard of Watson and Crick but not Rosalind Franklin. Obviously, she was there identifying the structure of DNA but no one could see her.
I stumbled upon this revelation on Twitter this morning when I saw that both Alastair Campbell and David Lammy had retweeted James Cleverly’s photo of Boris Johnson at hustings in Essex, with a quote about women not being allowed.
It was clearly a dog whistle to stir up some anger but it was ridiculous. If they had commented on the lack of undercthirties or the predominance of white skin they might have had a point. People noticed how silly it was but even men who could see women struggled to see all of them.
I’m currently reading (dipping in and out of) Invisible Women by Caroline Credo Perez, which is a book about how women aren’t included in data and how the world assumes a human is a man. I’m sure when she started to study the phenomenon she didn’t reealise that women were actually invisible.
However, invisibility is a superpower. We just need to learn how to use it wisely.
I stumbled upon this revelation on Twitter this morning when I saw that both Alastair Campbell and David Lammy had retweeted James Cleverly’s photo of Boris Johnson at hustings in Essex, with a quote about women not being allowed.
It was clearly a dog whistle to stir up some anger but it was ridiculous. If they had commented on the lack of undercthirties or the predominance of white skin they might have had a point. People noticed how silly it was but even men who could see women struggled to see all of them.
I’m currently reading (dipping in and out of) Invisible Women by Caroline Credo Perez, which is a book about how women aren’t included in data and how the world assumes a human is a man. I’m sure when she started to study the phenomenon she didn’t reealise that women were actually invisible.
However, invisibility is a superpower. We just need to learn how to use it wisely.
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