Sarah wrote:
On 11/21/06, niht-hræfn nihthraefn@gmail.com wrote:
Most of the women I know spend one or two hours in the morning with a straightening iron and a blow dryer. Wikipedia has http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowdryer and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Hair_iron . These two articles are considerably out of date and do not begin to encompass the complexities of these appliances (and there is not even separate articles for straightening irons and curling irons!). Compare to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television , the two appliances I have known men to use most.
Keitel, your e-mail is itself a good example of bias. The women you know who spend two hours every morning with a straightening iron and a blowdryer need to find a good hairdresser. The cut is everything. :-)
Seriously, it's kind of disturbing to see that women should be editing [[Blowdryer]] while the men get to grips with [[Arab-Israeli conflict]].
Sarah _______________________________________________
Speaking as a woman who does not even own a blowdryer or curling iron, I concur with Sarah - the cut is everything. I also am closer to losing my temper than at any other time ever on Wikipedia. Keitel, your entire email is insulting in the extreme. No one is claiming women handle all the "serious" articles and men edit only Beer and NASCAR articles. You are taking one tiny stereotype and applying it across the board. I personally use a computer, I am a programmer by trade, and have not touched a curling iron in 30 years. I know men who won't touch a computer. If "most of the women" you know actually have more interest in their hair than in current events, history, the rise and fall of nations, influential novels, paradigms which have reshaped society, etc, all I can say to you is that you need to meet some new women.
--pissed puppy, who doesn't care for stereotypes