Hi Ryan,
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:49:58 -0700
Ryan Kaldari <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
If people are concerned about sexism in Wikipedia
categories they should
be drawing attention to edits like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Gillies&curid=1968…
While the rest of the world is moving away from gender-specific job
names (like policeman and actress), Wikipedia is moving in the opposite
direction. That seems like a much worse problem than categorizing women
as women.
One should note that the obsession of having a gender-neutral way to refer to
both men and women is a peculiarity of the English language, after several
centuries of erosion, and European languages such as French, German, Italian,
Spanish, and Semitic languages such as Hebrew or Arabic have compulsory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender (male, female, and sometimes
also neuter), including for inanimate objects. So it's not the "rest of the
world" - it's only the American English-speaking Feminist-influenced media.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Ryan Kaldari
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