Women are inferior to men and exterminated like ants.
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Andrew Gray <andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk>wrote: > The recent discussion on this (which never really came to a clear > consensus): > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)/Archive_101#Actresses_categorization > > - Andrew > > On 27 April 2013 01:49, Ryan Kaldari <rkald...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > If people are concerned about sexism in Wikipedia categories they should > be > > drawing attention to edits like this: > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Gillies&curid=19682193&diff=536982107&oldid=536980531 > > > > While the rest of the world is moving away from gender-specific job names > > (like policeman and actress), Wikipedia is moving in the opposite > direction. > > That seems like a much worse problem than categorizing women as women. > > > > Ryan Kaldari > > > > > > On 4/25/13 11:34 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:56:39 -0400 > >> Sumana Harihareswara <suma...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> > >>> Wikimedia community member Liz Henry blogs here: > >>> http://bookmaniac.org/journalists-dont-understand-wikipedia-sometimes/ > >>> and does a little bit of digging into edit histories. > >>> > >>> "Just from these three samples, it does not seem that there is any > >>> particular movement among a group of Wikipedia editors to remove women > >>> from the “novelists” category and put them in a special women category > >>> instead. I would say that the general leaning, rather, is to stop > people > >>> who would like to label women writers as women writers *in addition* to > >>> labeling them as writers, claiming there is no need for Category: > >>> American women writers at all and that it is evidence of bias to > >>> identify them by gender. ... The sexist thing we > >>> should be up in arms about isn’t labelling women as women! It’s the > >>> efforts to delete entire categories (like Haitian women writers, for > >>> example) because someone has decided that that meta-information is > >>> unnecessary “ghettoization”..." > >> > >> Seems like good write-up and I tend to agree. It's too bad there was so > >> much > >> misunderstanding in the media about it. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Shlomi Fish > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gendergap mailing list > > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > > > -- > - Andrew Gray > andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > -- *AKHIL MULGAONKER *
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