Hi everyone,
I'm sorry that my first post on the gender-gap list is a little mean. I'm a wikipedia-fr admin, active member of Wikimédia France chapter and a member of the OTRS team. Yet, since I've joined gender-gap a week early, I receive more mails from this list than all the other lists together. I'm also not a native English speaker, which means every mail takes me a little longer of my time.
I thought the goal of this list was to discuss about women on wikimedia projects and how to attract new ones. I don't think it is useful to point out every single piece of sexism from en-wikipedia, in articles and discussion pages, for that. Or start http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap/en-wikipedia. I could point out sexism comments from fr-wikipedia every day, but I'm really not sure it is a constructive thing to do.
To come back to Madam vs Pimp, I think you either should start the discussion there : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Sexology_and_sexuali..., or stop asking permission to create articles. If it bothers someone, she will ask for a fusion.
Caroline (User:Léna)
2011/12/25 Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com
Hi everyone,
I'm doing a bit of fiddling with some articles related to sexuality and came across an article about a madam [[Polly Adler]]. The word "madam" was linked to [[pimp]]. While the article opens mentioning that a woman who runs a brothel is called a madam, it's an extremely male dominated article and focuses on the violent and sordid world of "being a pimp," for lack of better words.
I, frankly, would *love* to see madam have it's own article. Perhaps we should discuss it on the "pimp" page or just BE BOLD. (I don't have time to start a well fleshed out madam article, but, I'd be interested in perhaps collaborating with others to do it.)
Thoughts?
-Sarah
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