[Gendergap] Answer: How do German women feel about the image filter?

[Anneke Wolf]

Hello everybody,

let me introduce myself to you. I'm a female editor and long time  
volunteer in the german wikipedia. To answer your question: I voted  
against the image filter and I didn't have a problem with the vulva  
picture on the front page (Ok, I saw better pictures on the front page  
over the years, but I was not shocked and did not think this was such  
a big thing).
As far as I can overlook the recent discussions on the german  
wikipedia, the german blogosphere, facebook and a lot of personal  
talks I had to other female editors in the last weeks most of them  
thinks exactly the same. Why that? I don't know. Maybe because filters  
aren't very popular in germany at all, maybe it's because we have  
state schools with a curriculum in sexual education and you can see  
those pictures in your school books.

Maybe that wasn't the answer you expected but I had the feeling I had  
to answer to this.

Kind regards
Anneke (Kellerkind)

P.S. And, no, I'm not to shy to post on foundation-l but I'm not  
interested in subscribing _to_much_ mailinglists, so I'm happy to read  
the web-archives (And I will do exactly the same with this list after  
this post).