I really like this idea. It wouldn't even have to be a drawing -- you could use pictures of men and women editing, discussing and appearing in panels together at Wikimania and other wiki conferences/meetups.
- Nicole/Elocina On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > --- On Sun, 20/3/11, [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Come up with male and female wikipe-tans and put those up. > > Thinking out loud here: > > Having images that contain both a female and a male figure might actually > be useful for young men, on a subliminal level. > > Having the two figures drawn in similar ways makes it more difficult to > objectify the image, because there would be a natural tendency for men to > identify with the male image. It's harder psychologically to objectify and > identify with an image at the same time. To the extent that the viewer > identifies with the image, they then also identify with the female figure > in the image somewhat; the message becomes one of sameness and shared > characteristics. > > I am obviously not talking about romantic depictions here. And it would > help > if the female figure weren't dressed like a maid. ;) > > If it's well done, it might convey an implication of comradeship, and a > reminder that this is a joint effort involving both sexes. > > Wikipe-tan is pure objectification. For the male viewer, she is "other". > The ones showing knickers and so on are in grossly poor taste. Males > viewing > those images are not encouraged to picture women working side by side with > them, doing the same job they are doing. The whole vibe is of a boys-only > environment, where the (falsely assumed) lack of actual female presence > is compensated with a stereotypical fantasy girl. (That may also carry > through into article illustration preferences sometimes.) > > It's good for men to be aware that they are in mixed-gender company. As the > study on collective intelligence posted by Joseph the other day suggested, > social behaviour and group intelligence generally tend to improve somewhat. > > Andreas >
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