‘It’s not about diversity it’s about humanity’: Cindy Gallop fires warning to ‘all-white male’ exec teams
Businesses that embrace diversity are set to make a “goddam shit-tonne of money” but “if you start any business today with an all-white male leadership team you will never own the future”, equality campaigner Cindy Gallop has warned the industry.
Opening the Mumbrella360 conference in Sydney today, Gallop, a former senior executive with ad agency BBH, counselled agency bosses: “Working with women and people of colour is uncomfortable because we are ‘other’. But out of that will come extraordinary insights and perspectives.”
https://youtu.be/yQbmVWpcUWw
The white male cops it again.
How sadly predictable.
Snore.
Do you wonder why this topic is predicable?
Because nothing has changed. Which is why it is still discussed in these forums and hopefully will continue to be discussed until something does change.
Sorry it’s boring for you.
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Do you wonder why this topic is predicable?
Because nothing has changed. Which is why it is still discussed in these forums and hopefully will continue to be discussed until something does change.
Sorry it’s boring for you.
Bloke named ‘Robbo’ turned off by diversity discussion. How sadly predictable.
Congrats Mumbrella on a quality keynote.
Which I totally agree with and confess we have been guilty from time to time of Aus male cliche humour in our work, usually when we are talking to young aussie males. It’s an easy trap to fall into.
We are on the look out for talented female creative candidates who have a passion for content and those from multi cultural backgrounds. Some of the best content work in the world is coming from non english speaking counties, so anyone interested drop me an email.
About 75% of what Cindy says is just about correct, however, she blocks/kills off reasonable debate with the 25% that is false-dilemma, fallacious or flat-earth feminism.
One of the best keynotes I have seen in years. I do hope Mumbrella will post the full keynote after the conference as the article, while comprehensive, doesn’t do Cindy or the topic justice.
So much of the message is best expressed by Cindy’s delivery. It should be required viewing for all staff in agency, technology or business fields that are either all male, all female dominated or lack the perspective of ethnic diversity. Her message is about equality or humanity as she states. It’s not about male bashing or ball breaking feminism. It’s about respect and equality for both genders.
If you are bored or find it predictable, congratulations on identifying yourself as the problem she articulately defines in her keynote. Prepare to be made obsolete in the near future because the world is changing. Men and women who embrace the change will be the beneficiaries and as Cindy says, “Make a shit ton of money”.
In a warped and ever increasingly crazy word, where it is all too often considered racist to mention any other person’s ethnicity or gender, when posing an argument, it leaves only white males, at which to safely aim your warning shots. Imagine an argument boldly headed “X fires a warning shot at all – black male executive teams.” or all-white female executive teams.”
It simply reflects the level of grandstanding with which people will allow themselves to become involved. Many men think they have an automatic right to denigrate, or to set their personal ideas forward as fact, but I haven’t noticed women shying away from the practice either.
I agree broadly with all this, and yes the industry needs to fix it. But can some one talk to me a bout the fact that many of the most visible and powerful female figures out there that young girls look up to – say Beyonce – completely encourage the idea that ‘sex sells’. The message is pretty clear its, at least in part, how they got where they are. Magazines with largely female editorial staff also encourage the idea that it’s all about how you look – and how you look to men – that matters. Movies and TV shows written by women encourage the idea that it’s funny when women are materialistic insufferable people that only care about expensive handbags and sex. I could go on….
Yes, but then Sex does sell; not because it is of interest only (or even primarily) to men, as so many would like to pretend, but that it is part of a great driving force which is greater and far more powerful than politics, or capitalism, or come to think of it, almost anything.
The Male V Female schlock has been going on in a massive range of kaleidoscopic frameworks for millennia,
I don’t know where we should be without politics, but without sex we would be non existent.
This is all based on an ideology in which society is viewed through the lens of a privilege hierarchy and the constant, mostly imagined, oppression that is exercised from above. If one looked at actual evidence, middle-class white women would arguably be at the top, but there’s surprisingly little interest in this view.
I’d encourage you to check out The Fiamengo Files and The Factual Feminist on YouTube (two old-school feminists who uses evidence to argue against the current third wave instalment) for a more balanced perspective on these issues.
But I know you won’t because you’ve made up your minds. Men bad. Women good. Urghh.