I've added "sexual innuendo" to the en:WP civility policy, under "other uncivil behaviours":
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ACivility&action=hi...
Andreas
--- On Fri, 18/3/11, Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com wrote:
From: Sarah slimvirgin@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Gendergap] What to do about sexism when we see it on WP? To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Friday, 18 March, 2011, 13:53 On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 15:34, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@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
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