--- Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> wrote:
For what it's worth, I think they should both be
put on a separate
page,
prominently linked, but not displayed inline.
I don't like the idea of us telling people that
they are wrong to
be
more offended by one than by the other though. Changing that, if
you
believe it needs to be changed, is a debate for somewhere
else---Wikipedia shouldn't be a tool to promote particular
ideologies
about media, apart from the very basic one that we support GFDL'd
material.
No, but Wikipedia does strongly promote NPOV. This is what is at
stake here.
I don't think most of the world has women hide
their hair, though I
could be wrong.
You could be.
A sizable minority does though.
300 million americans, 300 million europeans, minus 200 million
europeas who really do not, and 50 million americans who do not
(italian neighborhoods etc), and that leaves you with 5%, at best.
Besides, America and Europe do not _have_ women hide their hair as a
matter of fact. It is fashion, and women generally do it by
themselves, to be more beautiful, attractive, etc, and there's really
very little pressure. It's not like an american woman will be flogged
at the post if she did not shave her legs.
I would not think
we
should put pictures of women's hair in a particular language's
Wikipedia
if a large majority of that language's speakers found it offensive
(I
don't know if this is the case for any actual languages, so that's
hypothetical). Our goal should be to produce a free encyclopedia,
not
to force people to look at images they find offensive simply
because we,
as the moral arbiters of the world in a somewhat
western-imperialist
fashion, have deemed that people who are offended by them are wrong
and
should adopt our (much better, of course) political and ethical
beliefs
instead.
Tell that to the 3000+ chinese editors. They would really enjoy
telling you how little regard they have for western-imperialism.
Besides, don't you think your behavior is somewhat condescending?
Moral-arbiters? Yeah, that's us. The Britney Generation. Moral
arbiters of the world. I laugh! Ahahahah!!! I choke!!! Arrgghhh!!!
Thump.
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