http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incide…
The first "unblock" statement shares the link to the joke and the
reprimand
by an admin on the users page telling them they can get blocked for
ongoing
comments like that. Fluffernutter points out that there is a "boyzone" in
Wikipedia and that it's not right to mock a users gender. I do appreciate
Fluffernuter speaking up about this, I know it's not always something
that
she likes to get mixed up with (so to say - as we talked about in IRC
today).
A dialogue takes place ranging from people thinking the joke wasn't
sexist,
to Fluffernutter is being "PC".
I don't believe that the user the joke was directed at participates in
the
conversation - for all we know they might have not been offended - but,
this
is just another example of how people seem to be unclear about what
"sexist"
behavior is.
Where I've worked and attended school, it was always very clear that
behavior or comments like that were/are not prohibited, but more often
than
not, people don't speak up when people behave poorly (silent victims).
Unlike on Wikipedia, where people generally do speak up - the shroud of
the
internet, I suppose.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, an educational environment. And when people
have to start questioning "Is this offensive or not? Is it sexist or
not?"
then clearly there is a problem with something in the culture and system.
-Sarah Stierch
I'm just looking into this and am not happy. There was a great wind from
all quarters...
It gets complicated fast. What the hell is this: