Hey folks,
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/6041397/Kiwi-women-are-slobs-Wikipe...
"According to Wikipedia women in New Zealand are unfeminine, wear masculine clothing and spend ''little time on makeup and personal grooming''."
Somebody might want to take a look at this -- the article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_New_Zealand.
This is the relevant paragraph:
"Lack of femininity: Women in New Zealand are supposedly unfeminine, for example wearing masculine clothing and spending little time on makeup and other forms of personal grooming. This can also be seen in a positive light; Kiwi women are portrayed as not being held back by ideas about being 'ladylike' and are therefore willing to take on 'masculine' tasks such as car maintenance and playing rugby. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark is often seen as an embodiment of this stereotype, for good and bad: critics point at her lack of children and her choice on one occasion to meet the Queen while wearing trousers; supporters like her passion for mountain climbing and ability to hold her own in parliamentary debates.[24]"
If nobody else has time to look at it I'll try to do it sometime in the next few days :-)
Thanks, Sue
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I just cleaned out the entire section. The citations used (except the book in the men's section I haven't looked at) DON'T mention "stereotype" in anyway. It's obviously someone with original research just throwing it out there based on personal opinion.
The section below also needs to be cleaned out.
I did a brief browsing online for "New Zealand stereotypes" (Wikipedia is the first hit) and found very little of quality material for sourcing.
I wonder how many other groups have stereotypes on their pages?
-Sarah
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hey folks,
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/6041397/Kiwi-women-are-slobs-Wikipe...
"According to Wikipedia women in New Zealand are unfeminine, wear masculine clothing and spend ''little time on makeup and personal grooming''."
Somebody might want to take a look at this -- the article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_New_Zealand.
This is the relevant paragraph:
"Lack of femininity: Women in New Zealand are supposedly unfeminine, for example wearing masculine clothing and spending little time on makeup and other forms of personal grooming. This can also be seen in a positive light; Kiwi women are portrayed as not being held back by ideas about being 'ladylike' and are therefore willing to take on 'masculine' tasks such as car maintenance and playing rugby. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark is often seen as an embodiment of this stereotype, for good and bad: critics point at her lack of children and her choice on one occasion to meet the Queen while wearing trousers; supporters like her passion for mountain climbing and ability to hold her own in parliamentary debates.[24]"
If nobody else has time to look at it I'll try to do it sometime in the next few days :-)
Thanks, Sue
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype#Stereotypes
There we go! Plenty of links to go around.
Here is my new favorite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurse_stereotypes
The worst part is it's probably one of the better stereotype articles in regards to citations!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_stereotype
This also has some content that needs to be looked at. I just removed a statement from [[Western stereotypes of West and Central Asians]] that stated: "Central Asia especially the Former Soviet-bloc, is often seen as a backwards region, where everyone lives on subsistence farming, and everyone has strange customs."
Uncited, of course.
-Sarah
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.comwrote:
I just cleaned out the entire section. The citations used (except the book in the men's section I haven't looked at) DON'T mention "stereotype" in anyway. It's obviously someone with original research just throwing it out there based on personal opinion.
The section below also needs to be cleaned out.
I did a brief browsing online for "New Zealand stereotypes" (Wikipedia is the first hit) and found very little of quality material for sourcing.
I wonder how many other groups have stereotypes on their pages?
-Sarah
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Sue Gardner sgardner@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hey folks,
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/6041397/Kiwi-women-are-slobs-Wikipe...
"According to Wikipedia women in New Zealand are unfeminine, wear masculine clothing and spend ''little time on makeup and personal grooming''."
Somebody might want to take a look at this -- the article is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_New_Zealand.
This is the relevant paragraph:
"Lack of femininity: Women in New Zealand are supposedly unfeminine, for example wearing masculine clothing and spending little time on makeup and other forms of personal grooming. This can also be seen in a positive light; Kiwi women are portrayed as not being held back by ideas about being 'ladylike' and are therefore willing to take on 'masculine' tasks such as car maintenance and playing rugby. Former Prime Minister Helen Clark is often seen as an embodiment of this stereotype, for good and bad: critics point at her lack of children and her choice on one occasion to meet the Queen while wearing trousers; supporters like her passion for mountain climbing and ability to hold her own in parliamentary debates.[24]"
If nobody else has time to look at it I'll try to do it sometime in the next few days :-)
Thanks, Sue
--
Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation
415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
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On 26 November 2011 08:55, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
I just cleaned out the entire section. The citations used (except the book in the men's section I haven't looked at) DON'T mention "stereotype" in anyway. It's obviously someone with original research just throwing it out there based on personal opinion.
Thanks Sarah! I didn't have time to look at the citation earlier, but I'm not surprised it didn't support the article text. I appreciate you cleaning that up :-)
Thanks, Sue
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