Re: [Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

2013-04-27 Thread keilanaw...@gmail.com
No, I'm 100% with you. It's not sexist to recognize that women are studied separately, hell, we have a whole field dedicated to women and gender. I think its incredibly helpful to have women in a separate category to assess our level of coverage for women in that field; knowing where our coverag

Re: [Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

2013-04-27 Thread Sarah Stierch
Regardless...I'm beginning to feel like I'm the only person on earth who feels having a category for "Women foo" is a good idea for the sake of women's studies and feminist studies. I find immense value in categories based around gender and ethnicity - it makes my writing and work a lot easie

Re: [Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

2013-04-27 Thread Akhil Mulgaonker
Women are inferior to men and exterminated like ants. On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 7:17 AM, Andrew Gray 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 > >

Re: [Gendergap] Liz Henry on women novelists, English Wikipedia, and labelling

2013-04-27 Thread Andrew Gray
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 wrote: > If people are concerned about sexism in Wikipedia categories th