Is that still going on? I'm against sexism and all for improving coverage of women on Wikipedia. I've helped to encourage events toward that end, and they've turned out pretty well. We now have quite a few more articles, for example, on women involved as pioneers in outdoor sports and activities because of them.
But I'm unsure how asking the question "Is it wise to offer money in exchange for creating large numbers of articles without consideration of quality?" or "Will this effort have the intended result?" is sexist. The same question would apply if the proposed articles were about Russian literature or asteroids. It is not sexist to ask the question just because of what the subject happens to be. I think that needs to be discussed, not sidetracked by calling people sexists. If people really were making sexist statements, I'd be all for shutting that crap down. But I've seen not one such statement in this thread. Todd On Oct 16, 2017 10:28 AM, "Robert Fernandez" <[email protected]> wrote: > So those who call out sexism are the real sexists, amirite? > > I am fed up with this double standard in the way we talk about these > issues. Some people are allowed to make broad, unsupported, sweeping > generalizations about the motives and actions of others and that's > considered just fine, but if you call them out in even the gentlest tones > it's treated as some horrific personal attack, and censure and apologies > are demanded. We've culturally internalized sexism so much that even the > way we talk about sexism is sexist. > > On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Vi to <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > But just a note: using the same behavior of phenomena you're trying to > > contast is, per se, a clear defeat. > > To be more clear, blind -because you obviously don't know *nothing* about > > their backgrounds- vilification of other's opinions is, incidentally, one > > the of the main instruments of "cultural" sexism. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
