[Gendergap] Hello and a (small!) manifesto

Joseph Reagle joseph.2008 at reagle.org
Thu Feb 3 12:44:10 UTC 2011


On Wednesday, February 02, 2011, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> K> our "mascot"? An overtly sexualized, large-breasted woman who people
> K> regularly draw in bikinis and maid costumes? I mean, I know
> K> Wikipe-tan is not actually The Problem. But she's the most egregious
> K> example I think we have of the sort of unconscious "boyzone" culture
> 
> Ah, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipe-tan .

I had never seen that, and now that I have I find it embarrassing for Wikipedia.




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