It's more of that damnable White Privilege.
Or something.
Recently, in a series of articles, the semi-satirical journal Proceedings of the Natural Institute of Science conducted a thorough statistical analysis of a very important topic: New Yorker cartoons.
Okay, so the basic idea of analyzing these alternately beloved and mocked cartoons is admittedly a little tongue-in-cheek in the first place.
But Matt J. Michel and the series' other authors actually looked at real data — they coded every cartoon the magazine published in 2014 — and they came to some pretty depressing findings about the portrayal of nonwhite dudes in one of the country's most liberal magazines.
Women and minorities are way underrepresented in these cartoons
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Again, though, there were some depressing trends to be found when it came to the representation of nonwhite male characters.
Women disproportionately filled the roles of "parent," "assistant," and "spouse." They were far less likely to be portrayed as "scientists," "literary figures," "coaches," or "police."
In fact, when it comes to many of these occupations, it's a good bet that New Yorker cartoons are far behind the real-world numbers: about 10 percent of the lawyers in the cartoons were women, whereas about 33 percent of American Bar Association members are in reality.
http://www.vox.com/2015/5/25/8646533/new-yorker-cartoons (emphasis in original)
Examples of this dastardly plot to marginalize women and minorities, along with a bunch of neat, scientific looking graphs, can be had at the link. And to think this is occurring in a magazine designed for a sophisticated and urbane readership in one of America's foremost Liberal
cesspools, er, centers. Racism and male chauvinism: they are everywhere.
