Booooring

Honestly, if I were not writing this blog, I don't think I would be reading it. Why? I've mentioned it in a previous post: the topic is so boring to read about! Just today, I had one of those rare luxury moments, alone in a cafe, with a bit of time to enjoy a good coffee and read the papers. I happened to see the Tipp, which is a Berlin weekly events magazine. The cover story was on employment quotas for women. Again all the same statistics with 23 percent less pay for women in same jobs, glass ceilings, incompatibility of work and childcare, incompatibility of careers and part-time jobs, unwillingness to have full-time childcare... I barely managed to finish the couple of pages of texts. Not because it was badly written - the journalist had conducted several interesting interviews, the argument was pretty solid, and the issue covered fairly comprehensively. But... Perhaps the position of women needs to be covered differently? Any ideas on a good medium? It's just that the more I read, the more I dispair. Women's day, Equal pay day, Put me to sleep day. Or am I the only one who finds all of these statistics and arguments somehow hollow (i.e. without real meaning)? Perhaps it is a female thing to be more moved by stories than statistics. Maybe it is just my personal preference. What would interest me more (in texts) would be personal stories that exemplify these general statistics. There's a term for such storytelling in postmodern theory, and I think it comes from feminist theory, if I recall correctly from my studies ten years back. I can't remember the exact term, but the essence is to have differnt voices narrate an issue. Mabe this blog is one little such narrative.