[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Wed Nov 22 01:00:26 UTC 2006

On Nov 21, 2006, at 19:39, Sarah wrote:

> On 11/21/06, niht-hræfn <nihthraefn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Most of the
>> women I know spend one or two hours in the morning with a
>> straightening iron and a blow dryer. Wikipedia has http://
>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowdryer and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
>> Hair_iron . These two articles are considerably out of date and do
>> not begin to encompass the complexities of these appliances (and
>> there is not even separate articles for straightening irons and
>> curling irons!). Compare to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer and
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television , the two appliances I have
>> known men to use most.
>
> Keitel, your e-mail is itself a good example of bias. The women you
> know who spend two hours every morning with a straightening iron and a
> blowdryer need to find a good hairdresser. The cut is everything. :-)
>
> Seriously, it's kind of disturbing to see that women should be editing
> [[Blowdryer]] while the men get to grips with [[Arab-Israeli
> conflict]].
>
> Sarah

Or some self-esteem. :] I don't think women /should/ be editing  
[[Blowdryer]], just that even I who cares nothing for such products  
could easily list a few manufacturers and the people I know who  
actually use them could supply so much more information.  
Additionally, those who have them could add pictures that aren't from  
a few decades ago. :] It probably wasn't the best example ever, but I  
remembered being pissed about [[Conair Corporation]] not existing  
some time ago...

--Keitei