annaholmes:

(A shorter version of this piece appears in today’s Washington Post. Photo of Google executive and engineer Marisa Mayer via. Headline via.)

Let’s say I was designing a new piece of software to make my life as a writer a little easier. First, I’d program it count how many characters I’d typed out and in what amount of time, in order to document my productivity on any given day. Then I’d ask it to compare words, phrases, sentences and entire paragraphs from one draft to the next, in order to calculate how much of what I’d written had changed…or stayed the same.

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This is so fucking good! It’s a really practical-minded and smart way of describing the ways that structural inequalities actually affect reality, because epistemology is ontology; ie, the ways we talk about (and therefore know) phenomena constitute those phenomena, and the shutting out of women (and people of color) from various discourses does not have to be an insidious plan, scheme, or plot in order to be dreadfully effective at keeping them predominately male and/or white