[Foundation-l] Blog from Sue about censorship, editorial judgement, and image filters

Milos Rancic millosh at gmail.com
Fri Sep 30 21:56:17 UTC 2011


On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 21:12, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 30 September 2011 20:04, Michael Snow <wikipedia at frontier.com> wrote:
>> On this score, it seems likely that we are failing to live up to one of
>> our core principles, that of neutrality. I think we need significantly
>> better editorial judgment applied to many of these articles to address
>> it. That will be a challenge as long as we have a male-dominated
>> community that lacks much appreciation for the nature of the problem,
>> and often fails to recognize how diverse its manifestations are. But I
>> suspect that if we were substantially closer to a neutral approach in
>> our coverage of these topics, there might be much less pressure around
>> the principle of resistance to censorship.
>
> I have heard *many* laments about the quality of our coverage of
> feminist issues from women. This suggests even to my relatively
> privileged white male brain that there may be an actual problem here.
> Possibly a strike force of feminist academics, armed with print
> references out to *here*?q

I wanted to say the same. Hm. I'll talk with others from my
organization and see is it possible to mobilize a couple of European
feminist organizations to work on those articles.




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