Hi everyone,
I'm sorry that my first post on the gender-gap list is a little mean. I'm a wikipedia-fr admin, active member of Wikimédia France chapter and a member of the OTRS team. Yet, since I've joined gender-gap a week early, I receive more mails from this list than all the other lists together. I'm also not a native English speaker, which means every mail takes me a little longer of my time.
I thought the goal of this list was to discuss about women on wikimedia projects and how to attract new ones. I don't think it is useful to point out every single piece of sexism from en-wikipedia, in articles and discussion pages, for that. Or start
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/en-wikipedia. I could point out sexism comments from fr-wikipedia every day, but I'm really not sure it is a constructive thing to do.
Caroline (User:Léna)
2011/12/25 Sarah Stierch
<sarah.stierch@gmail.com>
Hi everyone,
I'm doing a bit of fiddling with some articles related to sexuality
and came across an article about a madam [[Polly Adler]]. The word
"madam" was linked to [[pimp]]. While the article opens mentioning
that a woman who runs a brothel is called a madam, it's an extremely
male dominated article and focuses on the violent and sordid world
of "being a pimp," for lack of better words.
I, frankly, would
love to see madam have it's own article.
Perhaps we should discuss it on the "pimp" page or just BE BOLD. (I
don't have time to start a well fleshed out madam article, but, I'd
be interested in perhaps collaborating with others to do it.)
Thoughts?
-Sarah
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