Videosift Hero Lara Logan interview for GOOD magazine.

CBS News chief foreign correspondent talks about being a woman in the male-dominated world of war reporting. She's intelligent, competent, well-spoken, easy on the eyes and she's entirely comfortable with that. She's also very gracious with the obviously inexperienced interviewer.
8727says...

it might get more violent in certain small areas, but as a whole it's been shown in studies that we are becoming less violent (see TEDtalks).

thepinkysays...

Upvote for the feminism.

At the risk of being melodramatic: When she was talking about the sexism she encounters, I was reminded of some of the comments made to me on the sift when I still had a photo of myself for my avatar. People accused me of "knowing that I was cute" and "using it to get ahead" and "trying to make people like me," etc. Even other women said that if I wanted to be a real feminist I should change my avatar. These comments surprised me because I was using that picture for the simple reason that while I was quickly creating a profile a friend suggested, "Why don't you use such-and-such picture? That would be perfect." (i.e. it was the right size, a closeup, and the facial expression was a good representation of me.) I wasn't trying to use my looks to get anything from anyone, and it is pretty insulting when people assume that a woman is intentionally using her appearance for personal gain. (Well, I suppose we all want to look good for selfish reasons, but you know what I mean, right?)

Maybe only my weird mind sees the parallel. Of course, Lara Logan as a journalist has it much worse than me on VideoSift.

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