[Wamvan] Q this morning

[E J]

Jill, thank you for sending them this email and also for bringing this to
our attention. I agree with everything you said.

Elyse


On Monday, December 15, 2014, Tami Starlight <tamistarlight at gmail.com>
wrote:

> one would think wab knew better, sadly, and obviously, he does not.
>
> this issue, and basically intersectionality is a huge mountain we all must
> climb together.
>
> --
> Hiy Hiy/Thank you/Merci
> *Tami M. Starlight*
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> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Lyn Cockburn <lyncockburn at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','lyncockburn at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>> Excellent! Wottinhell are these people thinking?
>>
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>>
>> On Dec 15, 2014, at 12:03 PM, Jill Goldberg <jygoldberg at hotmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jygoldberg at hotmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Wam-ers:
>>
>> This morning on Q, guest host Wab Kinew held an (appallingly poor)
>> interview about Bill Cosby (separating art from the artist); his guests
>> were two men.
>>
>> So, I sent Q a little email. It went like this:
>>
>> Dear Q:
>>
>>
>> I'm rather surprised - particularly given Q's recent history - that you
>> opted to hold a discussion about separating art from the artist in the case
>> of Bill Cosby WITHOUT the participation of any women. I actually felt
>> disgusted listening to three men discuss this as though there were no women
>> available to speak about what it might mean to them to consider Bill
>> Cosby's art. The absence of women in this conversation sends a rather
>> loud message about the importance of women's opinions on your show, and I
>> find this deeply troubling. Surely you must have learned something from the
>> Jian Ghomeshi debacle about the undervaluing of women's voices, and what
>> this actually does to women?
>>
>>
>> Next time you have a similar discussion, feel free to email me. I know
>> lots of women who would be more than competent and very happy to
>> participate.
>>
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>> Jill Goldberg
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> You can email Q, too at:  http://www.cbc.ca/q/contact/
>>
>> grrr!
>>
>> Jill
>>
>>
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