> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Block_review_for_Baseball_Bugs > > The first "unblock" statement shares the link to the joke and the > reprimand > by an admin on the users page telling them they can get blocked for > ongoing > comments like that. Fluffernutter points out that there is a "boyzone" in > Wikipedia and that it's not right to mock a users gender. I do appreciate > Fluffernuter speaking up about this, I know it's not always something > that > she likes to get mixed up with (so to say - as we talked about in IRC > today). > > A dialogue takes place ranging from people thinking the joke wasn't > sexist, > to Fluffernutter is being "PC". > > I don't believe that the user the joke was directed at participates in > the > conversation - for all we know they might have not been offended - but, > this > is just another example of how people seem to be unclear about what > "sexist" > behavior is. > > Where I've worked and attended school, it was always very clear that > behavior or comments like that were/are not prohibited, but more often > than > not, people don't speak up when people behave poorly (silent victims). > Unlike on Wikipedia, where people generally do speak up - the shroud of > the > internet, I suppose. > > Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, an educational environment. And when people > have to start questioning "Is this offensive or not? Is it sexist or > not?" > then clearly there is a problem with something in the culture and system. > > -Sarah Stierch
I'm just looking into this and am not happy. There was a great wind from all quarters... It gets complicated fast. What the hell is this: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous&diff=453620216&oldid=453618738 Fred _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap