[Commons-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Photo of the Day on Wikimedia Commons

[Fred Bauder]

> On 05/16/2011 11:57 AM, Chris McKenna wrote:
>
>> Nor is it the mission of Commons to pander to the sensibilitites, no
>> matter how common (and outside the US they really aren't at all)
>
> "Pander" is a word doesn't in the least bit describe what anyone is
> suggesting or in fact doing.  "(and outside the US they really aren't at
> all)" is a factual error.
>
> (Sensibilities are not common in Australia? Britain? Canada? Japan?
> China? India? Indonesia? Turkey? Egypt? ...? )
>
> Cary

Actually, he is using pander correctly to describe our exaggerated
attention to this matter at the demand of a small group of people.

The world wide audience is another matter.

Fred