Men are tool orietated. Most photography literature are tool orientated.
Ever seen a photography magazine that did not have camera ads in it?
Men talk about things, women talk about feelings. All you have to do is
thumb through a womans magazine and you will see the difference. If you
made your magazine totally woman orientated all you would do is lose
your male readershi, I doubt you would pick up a large following of
women. Most women are not interested in the nuts and boldt end of
things, even the nuts and bolts of making images.
Despite the politically correct crap, men and women are different. We do
have a half dozen or so women who are regular list contributers, and
there are another half dozen who come and go. Who knows how many lurkers
are female?
graywolf
http://www.graywolfphoto.com
"Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof"
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Bob Shell wrote:
On Nov 26, 2005, at 10:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I still felt a need to say it -- those part of my feminist
stripes have
not changed, although I am on a list that is 95-99% male. However,
if most of
the women on the list react similarly to a photograph that tells you
something
right there.
Mostly it tells me that we need more women on this list. On all
photo lists, for that matter. Camera sales are not 95% to men, but
most of the photo lists I have found have few, if any, women.
We had the same problem when I was Editor at Shutterbug magazine.
Our readership surveys showed us that our readership was about 95%
male. I tried to attract more women readers by featuring articles
about women photographers, and even started a monthly feature "Women
in Photography" and has Frances Schultz write it. She did a bangup
job. But even years later after this and other efforts, there was no
increase in women among the readership. We concluded that women like
to do photography, but not so much read about it or converse about it.
You can hang me for saying it, but I think that men tend to be more
visually oriented than women. This applies even more strongly to gay
men, in my experience.
Bob
