On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Well, let's be fair - there are men on both sides, and as most Wikipedia editors are male I don't think any conclusions can be drawn from the gender of the editors :-P
You're right, I should have qualified that a bit more. After all, I am a male on the other side of the issue. But a group of male editors are dismissing the documented accomplishments of a professional in a traditionally female-oriented occupation, insisting they are less important than her naked pictures. This could easily serve as a case study for a gender theorist. I don't think it's going too far to say that sexism, or at least male privilege and myopia, are in play here.