This is a rather serious problem, and I regret that more hasn't been
done about it. On the one hand, you /could/ just ban everyone who acts
like this, but I don't think they'd particularly learn. For the most
part, these people just need to mature, and learn to think with their
brains rather than their sex organs. How one would educate these
individuals is another thing entirely, however.
~~Sean
There are some who would argue that there is no bias
against women in
internet contexts because they receive so much more attention and
everyone is all "omg grrls" (They're full of crap, btw). However, I'd
say on Wikipedia, I get more attention when I want something and
little to no attention when I'm saying something.
The attention I do receive in #wikipedia is often what I would
consider sexual harassment (I wholly understand that IRC is not
Wikipedia, but maybe 200 of our editors are there). In #uncyclopedia,
I kickban anyone that I feel isn't respecting me/my gender as they
should. However, there I am level 24, bureaucrat and sysop on wiki
and generally pull more weight. I am afraid to say anything about
feeling harassed on #wikipedia because it seems that I would be told
that they were just joking or I need to lighten up or that's not a
bannable offense. Not that I hate everyone who does it either, and I
don't even know if they know they're doing it, but it's a shame that
it's allowed and overlooked. Although I am part of the problem here
for not speaking up.
On-wiki the problem of gender discrimination is probably not as
pronounced because one often needs to look at the user page and find
the area where the user decides or declines to state their gender.
I'd be interested to know how well-known females are treated compared
to their well-known male counterparts (I mean admins, etc, those that
people know are female because they've heard of them), although it
would seem with the actions of Wikipedia Review, that the answer is
going to be "less well".
Anyhow, it'd seem that to be female and stick around Wikipedia IRC,
one has to have very thick skin. I don't know why females, in my
experience, feel more intimidated to edit Wikipedia or why they
aren't jumping on the editing bandwagon. They certainly /use/ it..
--Keitei, who's just typed more than she'd intended
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