Oftentimes, the stuff that social justice warriors write can be indistinguishable from satire. You can easily be tricked into thinking an op-ed penned by a feminist or a gender studies professor is actually something out of The Onion.
But it isn’t. It’s just the wacky left at it again.
Case in point, London Mayor Sadiq Khan argued in The London Telegraph that there are two major problems plaguing Wikipedia: there aren’t enough biographies about women and there aren’t enough female editors.
“Why we need to close Wikipedia’s gender page gap,” he started.
“It’s the fifth most visited website in the world, and the first port of call for those of us in search of information about a famous person or historical event. But did you know that only 17 per cent of Wikipedia’s biographies are about women? It’s a woefully inaccurate reflection of women’s achievements—and it has to change,” Khan wrote.
“With 83 per cent of biographies on Wikipedia about men, you may not be surprised to learn that men also make up around 85 per cent of those who edit pages on the site. That is also something we want to see change—after all, anyone can be a Wikipedia editor if they want to, and this could go a huge way in leveling the playing field.”
He must have a lot of time on his hands to comb through more than 5.6 million pages on the English version of Wikipedia.
If so, that’s virtue signalling to the extreme!
So, when is Khan going to be writing all those female bios? If he doesn’t, then he’s just a part of the bigger problem: sexism.
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