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Shark Week has too many white men
Posted on 12/6/22 at 5:54 pm
Posted on 12/6/22 at 5:54 pm
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Lisa Whitenack loved sharks as a kid. She spent rainy days leafing through a guide to sharks in Reader’s Digest. Every summer, she would watch “Shark Week,” Discovery’s annual TV event that spotlights the ocean predator with seven days of dedicated programming.
But when the scientists appeared on her TV screen, she rarely saw any women she could look up to.
“Why would I know I could do that?” Whitenack said. “I don’t come from a family of scientists. I didn’t see very many people that looked like me on television.”
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The programming featured more White experts and commentators named “Mike” than women, said David Shiffman, a conservationist at Arizona State University who was a co-author of the study.
“When there are hundreds of people of color interested who work in this field, [and] when my field is more than half women, maybe it’s not an accident anymore that they’re only featuring White men,” Shiffman said.
Discovery did not respond to a request for comment on the study’s findings. The company told NBC Boston that it wouldn’t comment on a study “that has yet to pass any scientific approvals” after a preliminary version was presented 2021. It has since undergone a scientific review, Whitenack said.
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Whitenack’s study found that the trend persisted throughout almost all of the television event’s history. Over 90 percent of the 229 experts featured in 201 “Shark Week” episodes were White, the study found, and about 78 percent were men.
Carlee Bohannon, a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, praised the study for putting numbers to her and her colleagues’ long-standing concerns about diversity in both the media and shark science. When Bohannon founded her organization with three other Black scientists in 2020, it was the first time any of them had met other Black women in their field.
“We all grew up seeing one type of person on TV,” Bohannon said. “‘Shark Week’ was really the biggest thing, and it was always filled with White men.”
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Posted on 12/6/22 at 5:55 pm to stout
White men and some ladies are the only ones who want to get in the water with them I’m sure Australia and Sourh Africa are well represented
Posted on 12/6/22 at 5:56 pm to stout
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Shark Week has too many white men
Of course it does. How many brothas do they think are lining up to go dicker with sharks for funsies?
Hell, I'm just another white dude, and I ain't fricking with no shark, either!
Posted on 12/6/22 at 5:57 pm to stout
Shark conservationists are total grifters.
Posted on 12/6/22 at 5:58 pm to stout
I didn’t waste time reading the article, but if it’s what I think it is, I just wish these people would an hero.
Posted on 12/6/22 at 5:59 pm to stout
Damn white people and their *shuffles deck* damn shark week.
Btw,
Is it racist if a great white shark attacks a black man?
Nevermind, of course it is.
Posted on 12/6/22 at 6:01 pm to TutHillTiger
Didn't Shaq do shark week?
Posted on 12/6/22 at 6:02 pm to stout
She must have never heard of Ocean Ramsey.
Glad I have.
Glad I have.
Posted on 12/6/22 at 6:02 pm to stout
Wait until those frickers find out that NatGeo has a whole damn Shark Month.
Posted on 12/6/22 at 6:03 pm to chryso
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How about a BET shark week.
Special shark themed episodes of Damn Nature, You Scary
Posted on 12/6/22 at 6:04 pm to stout
I'm guessing the correlation between "oceanographers" and "people who know how to swim" is pretty high.
Let's get Chantrell in the kiddie pool without a floatation device before we start talking about shark cages.
Posted on 12/6/22 at 6:04 pm to stout
Commies angling for a fed. Marine biology grant for people who.will never set foot on a boat.
Posted on 12/6/22 at 6:05 pm to stout
quote:can't we just shorten this to colored
people of color
Posted on 12/6/22 at 6:10 pm to stout
quote:
didn’t see very many people that looked like me on television.”
Yes its impossible to look up to anyone that doesn't look like you.
Posted on 12/6/22 at 6:12 pm to stout
Get a life dude. It's pathetic.
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