Sue Gardner's Blog edit
- Nine Reasons Women Don’t Edit Wikipedia (in their own words) February 19, 2011
1) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because the editing interface isn’t sufficiently user-friendly.
2) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because they are too busy.
3) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because they aren’t sufficiently self-confident, and editing Wikipedia requires a lot of self-confidence.
4) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because they are conflict-averse and don’t like Wikipedia’s sometimes-fighty culture.
5) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because the information they bring to Wikipedia is too likely to be reverted or deleted.
6) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because they find its overall atmosphere misogynist.
7) Some women find Wikipedia culture to be sexual in ways they find off-putting.
8) Some women whose primary language has grammatical gender find being addressed by Wikipedia as male off-putting.
9) Some women don’t edit Wikipedia because social relationships and a welcoming tone are important to them, and Wikipedia offers fewer opportunities for that than other sites.
- The Guardian---Who thinks about the consequences of online racism article...see notes
- disturbing
- The election of Barack Obama broke the white monopoly on the presidency and on residency in the WHITE House.
- the number of white supremists that joined the tea party swelled in 2008 after the election.
- me, us, we = white people
- generic racism
- not to far under the radar
- the Supreme Court has decided that racism does not exist in the US
- disrespectful assertion
- not unexpected
- Aversive racism
- "There's a black man in the WHITE house"
- Racism lives!
- Supreme Court, Clive Bundy, Donald Sterling, Category:African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)|the various Civil Rights Acts, U.S. Prisons, Michigan, Affirmative Action, Voting Rights Act of 1965, Racism, Michael Dunn, Barack Obama
- If we are proper and we say "African Americans in the White House" then we would be discussing the slaves that built and worked in the White House, or the rare Af-Amer visitor to the White House.
- Government House or Mansion, Executive Residence or House or Mansion, The President's House or Palace or Mansion. WE can explain it away with references to White House (plantation), in Virginia, where Martha Washington lived b4 George. or Teddy using white paint, or FDR, but its all speculation.