Would it surprise you to learn that Wikipedia used to be exactly the same way? I don't know the full story outside of my own personal experiences, but apparently the dominance of men and male-gendered concerns on the Wikipedia editorial forums was so strong that in 2014 several organizations (like the Fembot Collective, which is hosted out of the University of Oregon) started organizing "write-ins" not only to create article stubs for notable female figures but also to mob the forums in order to ensure that these articles were not immediately deleted for not being important enough.
I wish someone would do the same thing for TV Tropes, which is actually a fantastic resource and brilliantly put-together website, but... Bitches got to have priorities.
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Date: 2017-08-25 05:03 pm (UTC)Would it surprise you to learn that Wikipedia used to be exactly the same way? I don't know the full story outside of my own personal experiences, but apparently the dominance of men and male-gendered concerns on the Wikipedia editorial forums was so strong that in 2014 several organizations (like the Fembot Collective, which is hosted out of the University of Oregon) started organizing "write-ins" not only to create article stubs for notable female figures but also to mob the forums in order to ensure that these articles were not immediately deleted for not being important enough.
I wish someone would do the same thing for TV Tropes, which is actually a fantastic resource and brilliantly put-together website, but... Bitches got to have priorities.