Sarah wrote:
On 11/21/06, niht-hræfn
<nihthraefn(a)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 These two articles are considerably out of date and do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
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Speaking as a woman who does not even own a blowdryer or curling iron, I
concur with Sarah - the cut is everything. I also am closer to losing my
temper than at any other time ever on Wikipedia. Keitel, your entire
email is insulting in the extreme. No one is claiming women handle all
the "serious" articles and men edit only Beer and NASCAR articles. You
are taking one tiny stereotype and applying it across the board. I
personally use a computer, I am a programmer by trade, and have not
touched a curling iron in 30 years. I know men who won't touch a
computer. If "most of the women" you know actually have more interest in
their hair than in current events, history, the rise and fall of
nations, influential novels, paradigms which have reshaped society, etc,
all I can say to you is that you need to meet some new women.
--pissed puppy, who doesn't care for stereotypes
Now you see what happens when I don't have a preview button. Apologies
to all for getting irritated...
-puppy, chastised by self