On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 15:34, Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
The behavior you describe is all too common on
Wikipedia (and even worse
on Commons). I could quote some much more blatant examples than the one
you cite, but I'll spare everyone the groans. I think the problem is
that most guys do not understand that creating an unwanted sexualized
environment is a form of sexism and an abuse of male privilege (and that
it has a real effect on women's participation in the project). Indeed, I
imagine some do not even comprehend the concept of "unwanted sexualized
environment". Perhaps it would be helpful to point them to:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment
This reminds me of my unsuccessful attempt to get WP:HOTTIE deleted :(
For the long term, we should think about trying to get wording added to
either the Civility policy or the Harassment policy about offensive
verbal comments and sexual innuendo.
Ryan, thanks for the link to the "sexualized environment" page.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment Perhaps the
best thing to do when we see these comments is just add a link to that
page.
I'd like to try to add something to the civility policy about sexual
innuendo. I think so long as it's low key we could manage that fairly
easily (famous last words).
Sarah