Hi Ryan, On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:49:58 -0700 Ryan Kaldari <[email protected]> wrote:
> If people are concerned about sexism in Wikipedia categories they should > be drawing attention to edits like this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elizabeth_Gillies&curid=19682193&diff=536982107&oldid=536980531 > > While the rest of the world is moving away from gender-specific job > names (like policeman and actress), Wikipedia is moving in the opposite > direction. That seems like a much worse problem than categorizing women > as women. One should note that the obsession of having a gender-neutral way to refer to both men and women is a peculiarity of the English language, after several centuries of erosion, and European languages such as French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Semitic languages such as Hebrew or Arabic have compulsory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender (male, female, and sometimes also neuter), including for inanimate objects. So it's not the "rest of the world" - it's only the American English-speaking Feminist-influenced media. Regards, Shlomi Fish > > Ryan Kaldari > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Freecell Solver - http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ SGlau: Sounds really crazy. Are you sure you’re OK? SMG: No, I’m not. My secret for success was that I was never completely sane, heh. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
