On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I'm not thrilled about Wikipe-Tan, but the
one that I identified
specifically ("Gothic Lolita") is particularly troublesome because of the
implications of the term "Lolita", which has a definite sexual meaning of
the type that Wikipedia probably doesn't want itself associated, even
indirectly. And no, I don't think that's age-specific; even young people
know that's a loaded term.
While I don't disagree that this may be perceived as having
unfortunate implications, I'd like to point everyone toward
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Lolita_fashion
which may be enlightening. Whether a gothic lolita Wikipe-tan is a
good thing for the project or not may be up for debate, but I hope
that no one gets the impression that whoever created that image was
intending it to be sexual--I sincerely doubt there was ever that sort
of intention.
--
Tracy Poff