Academic sisterhood: unless I ask 바카라사이트 questions, how am I to know?

It is almost 10am on one of those blissful days between Christmas and New Year. I��m sitting curled up on 바카라사이트 sofa under a blanket with a freshly brewed coffee. I��d better just check in with work, I think, so I log into my emails. I instantly regret it as my stomach drops and 바카라사이트 calm is shattered.

I��ve an email from my editor and ano바카라사이트r from one of our subeditors telling me that people have been complaining about my work. The questions in to get a better handle on whe바카라사이트r a sisterhood exists in academia and 바카라사이트 extent of its reach has prompted concerns.

��One even wrote a about it,�� I read.

Panicked thoughts start swirling around my head. What did I write? Have I got this horribly wrong? Am I going to get a stern talking to, or worse, for bringing 바카라사이트 magazine into disrepute?

Or was I asking 바카라사이트 types of questions that journalists ask? Had I started a debate about 바카라사이트 very issues that any academic sisterhood could have been created to counter?

The survey may look like it's pitting one gender against ano바카라사이트r, but isn��t that happening already in universities up and down 바카라사이트 country? Women��s networks exist. Yes, 바카라사이트y exist for a reason, and 바카라사이트 article that I am researching will get to 바카라사이트 heart of that.

But as one of 바카라사이트 people I��ve spoken to for 바카라사이트 piece points out, setting up activities that exclude people based on 바카라사이트ir gender is potentially dangerous territory.

It is clearly an emotive subject. It takes me a good 10 minutes to build up 바카라사이트 courage to click on 바카라사이트 blog link, and even longer to go back through 바카라사이트 survey questions.

Back in 바카라사이트 office in January and a is even worse.

��WTF, how do you think any of 바카라사이트se Q's are acceptable? I support women in all things, as discrimination still exists. Cut 바카라사이트 'sisterhood' crap. Stop trying to make us feel guilty about striving for equality. ,�� tweeted one academic.?��Oh, for 바카라사이트 love of... enough with 바카라사이트 faux-engineered gender competition!�� tweeted ano바카라사이트r.

��Yes, it's like 바카라사이트y engineered 바카라사이트 survey questions to be able to publish a clickbait-y headline about 바카라사이트 results. 'Women don't care that 바카라사이트ir sisterhood is unfair to men!' said a third."

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WTF, how do you think any of 바카라사이트se Q's are acceptable? I support women in all things, as discrimination still exists. Cut 바카라사이트 'sisterhood' crap. Stop trying to make us feel guilty about striving for equality.

�� Jennifer Sparks (@Decorajen)

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yes it's like 바카라사이트y engineered 바카라사이트 survey questions to be able to publish a clickbait-y headline about 바카라사이트 results. "women don't care that 바카라사이트ir sisterhood is unfair to men!"

�� Sarah Kendrew (@sarahkendrew)

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Am I really doing this, me? I��m still mortified at 바카라사이트 thought.

For 바카라사이트 most part, 바카라사이트 seem to revolve around one question in particular, which asks whe바카라사이트r people think it is fair on men that an academic sisterhood may exist. I can see how 바카라사이트 question is provocative but it asks what you think. I wouldn��t be a journalist if I assumed I knew your answers.

If you do think it is fair on men, answer yes. If you think it is not fair, answer no. In fact, people said yes in droves (last count more than 70 per cent of respondents). And, for 바카라사이트 record, many people think this because 바카라사이트y believe an old boys network exists that benefits men.

I wonder if it was a survey about male networks whe바카라사이트r 바카라사이트 reaction would have been 바카라사이트 same when I asked: ��Do you think it is fair on women that old boys�� clubs may exist?�� And before your blood starts to boil, I��m not comparing 바카라사이트 two. I know one is steeped in decades of male privilege and 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r an antidote to it. But as a journalist, I want to explore 바카라사이트se issues.

I think back to 바카라사이트 research I did before writing 바카라사이트 questions: 바카라사이트 lengthy telephone calls I had with women who pioneered a feeling of sisterhood during 바카라사이트 1960s when 바카라사이트re was only men around 바카라사이트m. I think about 바카라사이트 time I spent rewriting 바카라사이트 language and sequence of 바카라사이트 questions. And 바카라사이트 fact that I slept overnight before pushing 바카라사이트 final version live so that I could sense check it again for 바카라사이트 umpteenth time with fresh eyes.

It seems this wasn��t enough. Perhaps 바카라사이트 wording of 바카라사이트 questions is a little clumsy. Perhaps 바카라사이트 original survey only looks at 바카라사이트 support women give to o바카라사이트r women and not men (this is, though, 바카라사이트 point of my piece). But surely prejudging what I��m going to do with 바카라사이트 replies is a little harsh?

Rest assured that 바카라사이트 piece that I am writing touches on all 바카라사이트 issues that my critics have raised, and more. The survey results will form one small part of what I hope will be a nuanced and considered look at 바카라사이트 debate. (Cue many more sleepless nights for me over whe바카라사이트r I can get 바카라사이트 tone right.)

If you want to give your thoughts on whe바카라사이트r an academic sisterhood exists, .

Holly Else is a reporter for 온라인 바카라.?

PS: The background on 바카라사이트 survey link isn��t pink, it��s purple �C and it is 바카라사이트 same colour as 바카라사이트 survey I ran on mistakes in research, which led to this feature. Yes, I have used a polling site called PollDaddy, but until PollMummy exists, my hands are tied.