{"id":5784,"date":"2014-02-03T16:31:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T23:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5784"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T23:31:45","slug":"feminists-take-on-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5784","title":{"rendered":"Feminists Take On Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia is just too slanted to the male perspective, or so say feminists who want to fix it through extensive editing. They&#8217;ll be holding editing-a-thons across the country over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Being a man, of course, I can&#8217;t fathom their specific issues. I expect they&#8217;ll be changing the third person singular from &#8220;he&#8221; to &#8220;she&#8221; all over the place. You can&#8217;t do that in Chinese or Latin or other languages. And maybe references to a ship as &#8220;she&#8221; will go down the tubes. I know a ship is a &#8220;she&#8221; in Italian. Can&#8217;t change that one, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, English is so sexist!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/02\/02\/wikipedia-is-very-masculine-so-feminists-pledge-to-fix-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia is just too slanted to the male perspective, or so say feminists who want to fix it through extensive editing. They&#8217;ll be holding editing-a-thons across the country over the next few weeks. Being a man, of course, I can&#8217;t fathom their specific issues. I expect they&#8217;ll be changing the third person singular from &#8220;he&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5785,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions\/5785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}