Non-fiction post

Article:

Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists

            The article was basically about how women writers are now being put in a different category on Wikipedia. Like for example: before on Wikipedia, Harper Lee would have been in the "American Novelists" section. Now she's in the "american women novelists".  When asked, Wikipedia said the American Novelists list " is too long, and therefore the novelists have to be put in subcategories whenever possible." Also, Wikipedia is doing this alphabetically so women authors with names later in the alphabet have not yet been bumped down to being on the women's list.

                By the way this was written, I think the author wants me to feel angry or upset. The author wants me to think that this is really unfair and sexist and that something should be done. The author also makes a lot of craft moves to show their feelings on the issue. Like for example in one line the author says " too bad there isn't a subcategory for American Men Novelists". I can tell she's being sarcastic and seems upset about the fact that only women have to be put in a subcategory because the main list is too long, while the men don't. The author also says  "It’s probably small, easily fixable things like this that make it harder and slower for women to gain equality in the literary world." Which shows her feelings. Something else: I found it clever to add in the article that the author is both a woman and a writer. This surprised me because it made me feel concerned about her because she herself might have experienced being put in a subcategory herself. So adding that little sentence at the end made the article made it feel much more personal.

                       I've learned  a lot from reading this article. I was completely unaware that this was going on on Wikipedia. I've been on it recently, it just hasn't crossed my mind that only women are being put in the subcategory. But now that I know about it, I kind of agree with the author in a way. It's completely unfair, but then again- everything in life is unfair so is this really the biggest problem we have? I'd also like to know if Wikipedia only started changing this because there was a complaint, or if they really understood how unfair they were being.