On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 15:34, Ryan Kaldari rkaldari@wikimedia.org wrote:
The behavior you describe is all too common on Wikipedia (and even worse on Commons). I could quote some much more blatant examples than the one you cite, but I'll spare everyone the groans. I think the problem is that most guys do not understand that creating an unwanted sexualized environment is a form of sexism and an abuse of male privilege (and that it has a real effect on women's participation in the project). Indeed, I imagine some do not even comprehend the concept of "unwanted sexualized environment". Perhaps it would be helpful to point them to: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment
This reminds me of my unsuccessful attempt to get WP:HOTTIE deleted :(
For the long term, we should think about trying to get wording added to either the Civility policy or the Harassment policy about offensive verbal comments and sexual innuendo.
Ryan, thanks for the link to the "sexualized environment" page. http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment Perhaps the best thing to do when we see these comments is just add a link to that page.
I'd like to try to add something to the civility policy about sexual innuendo. I think so long as it's low key we could manage that fairly easily (famous last words).
Sarah