On 14 February 2011 16:23, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
Question: Are female participants discouraged by the hardcore pornographic or explicit content in certain topics or articles?
Do you find it offensive, degrading, discouraging?
That's a great question, George: I'm glad you're asking it :-)
Why don't we try this: let's ask every woman here to answer the question solely from her personal perspective. Let's refrain from speculating about what other women might think, and let's hold back on assessing or judging what anybody says. And let's take censorship/intervention/etc. off the table --- all we're doing here is information-gathering, we're not talking about implications.
(Oh, and we should also be aware that the women here may be unrepresentative of the general population on this issue. If explicit imagery on the Wikimedia projects _were_ a major factor in the gender gap then women who currently edit would be unusual, in that they had NOT been deterred.)
So the question is: female editors, have you come across explicit material on the Wikimedia projects that you find offensive, degrading or discouraging?
Thanks, Sue