Posted on 09/07/2013 1:05:39 AM PDT by iowamark
Fifteen universities worldwide — including Yale University, Brown University, and Pennsylvania State University — will offer college credit to students who “write feminist thinking” into Wikipedia.
The program, “Storming Wikipedia,” will be part of the Dialogues on Feminism and Technology online course developed by FemTechNet, an organization of feminist educators and scholars.
Students will be given course credit if they contribute the "feminist thinking" article on Wikipedia.
Approximately 300 students are currently registered for the course, Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies at California's Pitzer College and one of the course facilitators, told Campus Reform Thursday.
“A woman's point of view or feminist point of view is not yet expressed in relationship to women in technology in Wikipedia,” she said. “We hope that people engage in this project in respect to other themes as well.”
FemTechNet alleges that many Wikipedia pages are "skewed now toward male participation," citing a 2011 study which found that fewer than 15 percent of Wikipedia contributors were females, according to an article in the Huffington Post.
It appears that "feminist thinking" is not currently an entry in Wikipedia at all, however there are entries for both "feminism" and "black feminism."
A goal of the course is “to advance feminist principles of social justice in creating educational models and pedagogies for the future,” according to a FemTechNet news release.
Other participating colleges include Bowling Green State University, California Polytechnic State University, Colby-Sawyer College, The City University of New York Graduate Center, Macaulay Honors College and Lehman College (CUNY), The New School, Ohio State University, Ontario College of Art and Design University, Pitzer College, Rutgers University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, according to the news release.
Feminist thinking: oxymoron or non-sequitur?
Imagine if Nazi Germany, fascist Japan or Soviet Russia had been around when the Internet came around. That’s not hard to do, is it?
Penn State: Where we employ Jerry Sandusky for decades but you damn well better use feminist speak!
I'm a female and this is so stupid. But you'll know when college kids attack Wikipedia because both grammar and writing will deteriorate, if that's possible.
Examples may include:
Iron my shirt, Bella Abzug
Hey Patricia Ireland, where's my beer?
One of these days, Naomi Wolf - POW - right in the kisser!
We now have on record 15 schools of propaganda.
One of the most pathetic things about this is that they have bought into their own propaganda to such an extent that they think this is something to be proud of and to advertise.
FEMINIST: An ugly female with a perpetual yeast infection and a hatred of males.
Warning: Don’t poke a stick at it!
"One of the most pathetic things about this is that they have bought into their own propaganda to such an extent that they think this is something to be proud of and to advertise."
No one has "bought in" to anything.
This is a planned attack against America which is an attack against freedom.
Everything about The USA is based on personal freedom ... the God given ability to make our own decisions and act accordingly.
Since I started paying attention ... somewhere in the 80's (yeah ... late bloomer ... ), I can look back and see the planning in the 60's war protests and the VN war itself .. IMO ... an attempt to get rid of educated middle class men.
Even back then I was made aware of lefty professors and such.
This is nothing new ... and I fear .. we are WAAYYY too far gone to reclaim MY America of the 50's
Others more older may have THEIR era ... the 50's were mine.
Hokey Smokes Mr. Peabody .... !!!!
“Feminist thinking” taught young women that a father’s influence was not necessary for a well developed offspring. “Feminist thinking” added to the misery of our young boys in public schools: if they did not sit down and act like girls they were prescribed Ritalin (which shrinks brains). “Feminist thinking” destroyed the family structure in this nation. Where is NOW now????
Feminism is not healthy for children and other living things.
Since Wikipedia entries can be contested by anyone, let these man-haters start slipping their misandrony in and men can very easily — and visibly — denounce it for the propaganda it is. They will end up defeating their own purpose.
So conservatives fingers are broken? Good Lord, some of us (me included) type all time into Free Republic.
Maybe we ought to spend some time putting truth into Wikipedia. Not over the top vitriol—that’ll be spotted and removed-—but plain old simple accurate truth. :)
I try never to use Wikipedia as a reference source in my FR posts. Here’s another reason not to do so.
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