[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Puppy wrote:
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> This is not to say that improving and expanding such articles is not
> desirable - after all, we wish to be the premier source of general
> information on everything - but it is not due to gender bias, and to
> imply that it is to me is reinforcing the 
> "woman-as-empty-headed-shallow-person".

Actually, your argument here is serving /that/ purpose quite well.

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