[Gendergap] Visible female faces for Wikim/pedia

[Carol Moore in DC]

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category_talk:Wikipe-tan
I started a debate here. Uh oh, sexual innuendo warning.

On 3/20/2011 1:54 PM, Juliana da Costa José wrote:
> Additional:
>
> I really love the first sentence here [1]:
>
> "Wikipe-tan is one of the personifications of Wikipedia."
>
> So if you see the following pictures (my favourites are this [2] and
> [3]) and see a child-eyed girl in french-roommade-dress and hold-ups
> cleaning so it says a lot about the picture of women a lot of
> Wikipedians (both genders!) accepted as normal.
>
> Very diagnostically conclusive for the picture of females in Wikipedia
> is this [4]
>
> But maybe I am just a comic-banause because I do not like funny mangas
> or animes. I am sorry about this...
> I worked very long in jobs women were just scored by optical an sexual
> clichees, maybe this made me a little bit touchy...
>
> J.
>
>
> 1 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipe-tan?uselang=de
>
> 2 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uncle_Wikipe-tan_%28show_some_WIKILOVE%29.png
>
> 3 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipe_tan_by_SigurdHosenfeld.png
>
> 4 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jimbo_and_Wikipe-tan.jpg?uselang=de
>
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