(2016/02/26) Who gets a seat at the table (Culture) (Repost)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 September 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Edition #994
Today we take a look at the narratives and stories that fill and influence our lives, whose stories get told and why and how that effects the way we see the world
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
00:00:37 Ch. 2: Act 1: Mansplaining: The Science - @Upworthy - Air Date: 03-10-15
Ch. 3: Song 1: Words Are Seeds - My Gay Banjo
00:02:35 Ch. 4: Act 2: The Racial Politics of Disney Animals - Popaganda from @BitchMedia - Air Date 8-28-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: I Wan'na Be Like You (The Monkey Song) - Louis Prima, Phil Harris & Bruce Reitherman
00:16:47 Ch. 6: Act 3: Broad Politics in the Obama Administration - @DecodeDC - Air Date 1-28-16
Ch. 7: Song 3: Seat at the Table - Crystal Lewis
00:22:53 Ch. 8: Act 4: #OscarsSoWhite: Black Filmmakers Call Out Hollywood Racism, Exclusion as Calls for Boycott Grow - @democracynow - Air Date: 01-25-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Gatekeepers - Sharrie Williams
00:30:54 Ch. 10: Act 5: $pread, For and By Sex Workers - @onthemedia - Air Date: 5-1-15
Ch. 11: Song 5: Power of Words - iamuuri
00:40:10 Ch. 12: Act 6: Worst Oscar responses to #OscarsSoWhite - Backtalk from @BitchMedia - Air Date 2-18-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Bedtime Stories - Chris Reed
00:57:01 Ch. 14: Act 7: #OscarsSoWhite; Watch #JusticeForFlint Instead via @UnitedBlackout — Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 15: Song 7: Right to Complain - Trombone Shorty & Marc Broussard
01:00:18 Ch. 16: Act 8: An inclusion crisis in the entertainment industry - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 2-26-16
Activism: #OscarsSoWhite; Watch #JusticeForFlint Instead via @UnitedBlackout
Take Action:
#JusticeForFlint from Blackout for Human Rights
Additional Activism/Resources:
"How to help people hurt by the poisoned water in Flint” via Mashable
Sources/further reading:
”Meet April Reign, the Black Woman Behind #OscarsSoWhite"
"The 17 Biggest Surprises Of This Year’s Oscar Nominations — #OscarsSoWhiteTheSequel” via Buzzfeed
"These 10 Actors, Directors & Executives Can Reverse #OscarsSoWhite” at RevoltTV
"Creed Is The Rocky Film 21st-Century America Needs” at The Establishment
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Katie Klabusich
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:26.4 | Papaganda, DECO DC, Democracy Now on the Media, Backtalk and Counter-Spin. |
| 0:37.7 | I'm a guy, I know why these guys do this. The bottom line is this lady. |
| 0:41.3 | I'm sorry, go ahead. I'm calm down a bit here, Kelly. |
| 0:44.0 | If it's a legitimate race. I'm going to let you finish. But Beyonce have one of the best videos of all. |
| 0:47.9 | You've probably seen some of these cringe-worthy moments before. They spend from politics to |
| 0:52.4 | pop culture, but they have one thing in common. A wildly overconfident man interrupting, |
| 0:57.6 | shushing and holding forth on a topic that he might not be the most qualified spokesman for. |
| 1:02.4 | This phenomenon has become known as men's planning. It's the word that's launched a thousand |
| 1:08.0 | think pieces, including a few that are clearly over it. But we wondered, what does the science |
| 1:13.4 | have to say about it? Back in 1984, a study observed that female doctors were more than twice as |
| 1:18.2 | likely to be interrupted by patients than their male counterparts. A 2004 study found that |
| 1:23.0 | men at Harvard Law were more than 50% more likely to comment in class and 144% more likely to speak up |
| 1:28.7 | more than twice. And it happens in the workplace. A 2012 study found that when tasked with a |
| 1:33.3 | group decision by majority, though, women spoke less than 75% as much as men. The media is not much |
| 1:39.0 | better. A 2012 study found that men write 80% of traditional opinion pieces and 67% of them online. |
| 1:45.6 | And the data shows that while there are fewer men than women on Twitter, men are retweeted more |
| 1:51.6 | than twice as often. With the science shows that mansmaning isn't an overused word flaming the |
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