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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

wikipedia cutting out women?

13 replies

TruthOnTrial · 26/07/2019 09:59

I have just been reading up on PMDD.

I noticed how, amongst some search results appeared this:

Referencing 'People who menstruate' totally excluding 'women' as the only group out of the group 'people' that menstruate. Noone else in the group of 'people' do.

Well they just denied their own existence as a place purporting to deliver knowledge (supposedly accurate)

wikipedia cutting out women?
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JaneJeffer · 26/07/2019 10:01

Edit it!

TurboTeddy · 26/07/2019 10:11

Oh FFS. Sorry I have nothing more constructive to say.

SarahTancredi · 26/07/2019 10:14

Oh just f* off. Seriously.

You know who we are when you wanna get laid on a friday night.

You know who to yell out your van windows to.

But you now want to make our medical conditions "inclusive" Hmm

donquixotedelamancha · 26/07/2019 13:26

It's menstruating women on Wikipedia now, changed 3 days ago (presumably OP?).

The change from women was made in April by a fella named Adam.

Can't see any evidence of similar nonsense in articles on women's health, so it seems like Adam was just being a muppet, rather than any wholesale policy.

TruthOnTrial · 26/07/2019 14:25

Oh good!

As anyone can edit, as jane suggested, it did make me wonder whether there is an effort [by some, who knows] to reword wiki's references to sex related info, and what wiki's policy is on that, maybe its wiki thats changed it back to 'women'

If so, awesome Wikipedia!

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AlwaysComingHome · 26/07/2019 14:39

Wikipedia has also purging articles on women scientists recently. Sorry, can’t find the tweet about it.

TruthOnTrial · 26/07/2019 14:51

Really?! Who's driving that? Thats a lot of a worry!

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GirlDownUnder · 26/07/2019 15:05

Maybe don't read this thread then 😬

Wikipedia definitions of Woman and Transwoman

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3645989-Wikipedia-definitions-of-Woman-and-Transwoman

2BthatUnnoticed · 26/07/2019 21:33

Unfortunately Wiki has gone full TRA (I saw screenshots of them discussing how to phase out “anyone terfy” from their records without people noticing). Safer to google an actual dictionary!

GirlDownUnder · 26/07/2019 23:41

Cheers to that Wine 2B Smile

DpWm · 27/07/2019 00:02

Reads like this now? I hope it stays and no one gets banned for being "terfy"

wikipedia cutting out women?
TruthOnTrial · 27/07/2019 12:31

Yes, wise words,

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BlazeAway · 27/07/2019 14:37

Always here's an article about that.

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