[WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.

Wed May 12 11:03:34 UTC 2004

How can we ever know if the majority of the world finds something
offensive? All we ever get to hear about are the vocal minority. I think
it's pretty easy to make a pronouncement on body parts, saying that male
and female parts should be treated in the same way on wikipedia. If you
are worried about it we could just take a vote. All those in favor of
treating the penis and clit photos the same say eye.

Theresa

-----Original Message-----
From: Delirium [mailto:delirium at hackish.org] 
Sent: 12 May 2004 11:58
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: troubled.

Anthere wrote:

> I expect that female genitals have the same right of display than male

> genitals.
>
> Either hidden, or visible.
>
> But that equal standards are respected between women and men.

I personally agree they're approximately equal, and think both should be

a link.  But I don't see how we can make that pronouncement.  If the 
majority of the world happens to be more offended by one than the other 
(which seems to be the case), we're not really moral arbiters that are 
here to say they're wrong.  Principles such as "the offensiveness of 
female and male genitalia should be equal" might make for an interesting

discussion for a philosophy of media class, or a journal of feminist 
theory, but I don't think we should really be in the business of putting

forth new standards for what people should find offensive and what they 
shouldn't find offensive.  If it's easy to keep them consistent then 
fine, but if people find one much more offensive than the other, then 
that's a matter to debate using some other tool than Wikipedia.

-Mark

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