--- Delirium delirium@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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