On 7/19/13 1:35 AM, Thomas Morton wrote:
99.999% of the world, women included, would have read
that comment and
not considered it inappropriate, sexist...
At the risk of beating a dead horse, I'm afraid I just can't agree with
that. Commenting on a woman's body in an unexpected or inappropriate
context is a very common and straightforward form of sexism. This isn't
some obscure form of political correctness that only hardcore feminists
are going to understand. I also find it hard to believe that you think
Drmies would have been equally likely to make a comment about the beauty
of a male editor's body on the Administrator's noticeboard. There are
"blind spots" and then there's "putting one's head in the
sand". I have
to wonder which is the case here.
On a related note, I was also surprised that en.wiki chose not to
feature the George Zimmerman verdict on In The News, even though it was
topping U.S. headlines for a week, and many international news sources.
There was rioting here in Oakland, so clearly this was a culturally
significant event. I have to wonder how often our "NPOV" content
decisions are actually a result of Wikipedia's skewed demographics.
Ryan Kaldari