I agree with Oliver - a female-friendly space need not, and should not, be a
space with no males allowed. It should simply be one with everyone behaving
in a manner friendly to females, and there's nothing in that that says at
least some men are unwilling or unable to do that. If we start gating off
areas of the wiki, we're not doing women any favors.
-Karen
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Oliver Keyes <scire.facias(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:26 PM, patricia morales <
mariadelcarmenpatricia(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
It seems very interesting to create a
female-friend space for overcoming
gradually the gendergap. Some women would like to participate suggesting new
topics, their interests (for example more articles on the women´s role in
the African microeconomy, or female Nobel Awards, etc). They can provide
some opinions or suggestions on the undercovered male-oriented use of
language in articles or pictures of Wikipedia, etc.
I believe that the leadership of this process has to be in various female
hands, taking solidarity as a major principle. When we take a look at
history, we can see that women primarily avoid the use of violence and war.
Matriarcal peoples or ctonic religions (where there is an identification
between the Earth and the woman) are interesting examples.
The thing that worries me about this suggestion is that it's effectively
sectioning off and segregating a portion of wikipedia's community.
Solidarity is all well and good, but if the idea is to encourage more women
to get involved in the community, the answer can't be to disect that
community.
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