How is asking someone to speak up more silencing them? |
If her English wasn’t native, OP has a greater responsibility to speak clearly and using correct grammar. Using a double negative to silence her and then making no effort to draw her out in the interview is unprofessional…and maybe even racist, we have no way to know. |
She didn’t— she told her “I don’t want to not hear you”. Say that quickly in your second language a few times and see how obvious the meaning is to you. The silencing came when she left most of what the researcher DID say out of the finished article in favor of her junior colleague. |
Saying "I don't want to not hear you" makes sense--I don't want our connection to be bad, I don't want to miss what you're saying, etc. This seems straightforward. |
It makes sense to you. A native speaker. Would it be equally clear in your second language? It wouldn’t be in mine, and it’s not grammatically correct in English. |
So your rec is op should start speaking slooooowly with extremely straightforward grammar when speaking with professionals whose first language isn’t English? Should go great! |
No, my recommendation is that she use grammatically accurate English, know the job title and role of the person she’s interviewing, and make an effort when someone is reticent to be sure she hasn’t done something to make it harder for her to be heard like let the loud male colleague take up all the air in the room. All of these are things someone in a college marketing internship would be expected to manage just fine. But my impression is that OP doesn’t actually care about either the quality of her work or the damage she did to her subject, she only cares that the subject 1. Interpreted that damage in a way that wasn’t favorable to her and 2. Had the nerve to report it. |
i'm still very curious why the lead author didn't say gender bias only racial bias. |
Let chatGPT do your job. |
The Asian woman was "victimized?" I can see that her co-author was rude and/or obtuse. But let's not overstate things. |
The WHITE MALE co-author was "articulate" but they talk "OVER EACH OTHER". That's can't be true. She was struggling in sharing with you her part of the contribution probably as the lead role in that project. You ignored her during the interview with a seemingly fair request for "hearing you both", and not citing her in your report. Who is the victim? Asian American women are often ignored, and face racial and gender discriminations in America. |
Did the university OK the release before it went out? I would think they would flag the lead/co-author issue and ask for revisions. |
+2 Honestly, the article itself is the biggest issue. If you didn't get enough quotes from the other (female) author, you did not give her enough air space during the interview. Or, you could have asked for a follow-up with her alone to make your piece more balanced. |
+1000 Even if the lead author wasn't a woman of color, not representing the LEAD AUTHOR in the piece was a big misstep. Even if the lead author had been a soft spoken white man this would be a problem. Some people (of all races) have different styles - may not be as immediately quotable off the cuff. A follow-up email or interview, or whatever was needed to make it a more balanced pieces seems like it would have been a good idea. OP should learn from this. |
OP said they were described to her as co-authors. I don't know enough about that space to know if OP had a responsibility to figure out who was who, but she didn't know the woman was the lead author. But I do agree that this is a learning experience. Your mistake was that you let the white man do all the talking and get all the quotes. |