I left poetryetc a while back, when it was a much larger list, and recently
rejoined.
WOMPO was founded when POETICS was a discussion, rather than announcements,
listserv, and women were, in fact, treated as unequal members of the
conversation.
I am also a member of another listserv which is all women -- at an
intervening point, WOMPO voted to allow men to participate which in fact is
very problematic on that list -- this other list allows no men. Early in
this new list, several boys tried to get on under women's names, but were
shut out. Unfortunately, even that list has allowed men to participate on
its blog, again by vote (except in this case, the list founders were very
vocal about wanting to include men in some way, and this swayed the vote).
Trying as all this is, it seems that somewhere in this lack of female
participation in discussions purportedly about poetry (but rarely about
poetry) lurks the answer as to why art communication by women is so
comparatively rare, so rarely called good, so unadvocated. Dunno, it has
been about 14 years of this sort of thing for me, and I'm still trying to
figure it out.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Judy Prince
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> I'm on 4 poetry lists, Alison, and WOMPO is the only one on which more than
> a couple females participate regularly.
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> Judy
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> On 20 May 2010 21:33, Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > I am curious to know why so few women participate in discussion on this
> > list.
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> > xA
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All best,
Catherine Daly
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