User talk:Rainbowofpeace
Antisemitism Usage
The quote from the Encyclopedia Brittanica on antisemitism is from the articles lede. Ít concerns precisely the problems with modern usage. To say that "The addition is not neutral." is to suggest the entire EB article is not neutral. I am not at liberty to "rephrase [it] in a neutral fashion".
Are you not showing intolerance for alternative views?
Discrimination sidebar
Linking to those templates is an interesting idea, although the direct links to the templates are more intended for designers, particlularly once documentation has been added. There are already links to high level articles Religious intolerance and Xenophobia. These more-or-less duplicate the issues dealt with by the two templates. In each case a well-written top-level article including the relevant navbox should render the direct template link unnecessary. Perhaps you can consider how best to accomplish that if the articles are not currently suitable? --Mirokado (talk) 16:00, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
It used to be that the forms of anti-ethnic and anti-religious articles were listed after the specific forms. This however has fallen out of practice so to make these articles easily accessible for those studying discrimination and to keep the articles like anti-christian sentiment and anti-americanism in a relevent area I linked them as new templates connected to the discrimination templete. However, if you wish to bring it back to the old way I am more than willing to help but think that it would be unreasonable and would only fill up the template.-Rainbowofpeace (talk) 06:40, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
: Thanks for the response. The template links do not seem to be worrying anybody so I suggest we leave well alone. --Mirokado (talk) 20:54, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
Merge discussion for [[Pangender ]]
25px An article that you have been involved in editing, Pangender , has been proposed for a merge with another article. If you are interested in the merge discussion, please participate by going {{ #if:Talk:Genderqueer#Merge proposal |here|to the article and clicking on the (Discuss) link at the top of the article}}, and adding your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. April Arcus (talk) 07:26, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
Anti-cultural sentiment
I'm having to move this template again for various technical and manual-of-style reasons (see the edit summary.) It will take a little while to finish all the necessary related changes. --Mirokado (talk) 17:27, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
I have moved this template again for various reasons, please see Template_talk:Anti-cultural_sentiment#Anti-cultural_sentiment. Sorry I didn't notice the previous discussion first. --Mirokado (talk) 18:11, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
Hi there
Hi. I just suppressed an edit that you made to your userpage, on request from another user via OTRS. While it's self-disclosure and technically, I can't really mandate that you not put it there, I highly recommend that you do not add personally-identifiable information to your Wikipedia userpage again. It can be used against you in a myriad of ways and, once out, is very hard to put back in. Best regards - Alison ❤ 03:37, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
Your recent moves
Hello, regarding your recent moves: can you please file a move request for these articles instead of moving them without prior talk page discussion? The reason I ask is that the articles in question are the subject of a prior move request, so they are potentially controversial moves per Wikipedia's definition. Potentially controversial moves require a move discussion to reach consensus for a new name. Directions for requesting a move are available at Wikipedia:RM#Requesting controversial and potentially controversial moves. Thanks and regards. --Muchness (talk) 10:02, 16 February 2011 (UTC)
Holocaust Memorial Badges
Discrimination sidebar
See Template_talk:Discrimination_sidebar#Persistent_addition_of_unsourced_material and please stop doing this. Your latest edit was a breach of Wikipedia etiquette for the reasons stated in the link. --Mirokado (talk) 23:33, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
Heterosexism edit
Thanks for helping out! I got tired of repeating the very same edit and explaining unfortunately overshadowed difference. --CJ Withers (talk) 20:28, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
I came to your talk page to thank you for this edit, as well. It's ridiculous (and offensive) how conflated and forced together homosexuality and transgenderism are here on Wikipedia. I'm heartened at least a few editors understand they're distinct phenomena. I recently made a secton on the LGBT project talk page discussing the conflation on that project itself and in articles. 75.132.142.26 (talk) 03:24, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
Why I undid your good-faith edit to [[:Racism]]
A racist is obsessed by the bogus concept of "race" (however they define it), even if what they are obsessing over is comething you or I might classify more accurately as ethnicity or nationality. Your edit obscured that fact. --Orange Mike | Talk 13:22, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
Come hang out with us!
Hi! I just wanted to let you know that we have created an [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC IRC] channel for "countering systemic bias one new editor at a time", aka closing the gender gap! Come hang out at [irc://chat.freenode.net/wikimedia-gendergap #wikimedia-gendergap]. We hope this channel can serve as a safe haven to hang out, talk Wiki, closing the gender gap, women in Wikimedia, article alerts and foster friendships. I hope you join us! (And if you need any IRC help, just let me know!) See you there! SarahStierch (talk) 01:39, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
Thank you for inviting me. I would love to be a part of your group unfortunately the link isn't working very well. Anyway. I'll keep trying.-Rainbowofpeace (talk) 09:33, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Survey
Hi Rainbowofpeace!
I have put together a survey for female editors of Wikipedia (and related projects) in order to explore, in greater detail, women's experiences and roles within the Wikimedia movement. It'd be wonderful if you could participate!
It's an independent survey, done by me, as a fellow volunteer Wikimedian. It is not being done on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation. I hope you'll participate!
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDR3a3JfaTd0aVBiMW1xd2phNXE2R3c6MQ#gid=0 Just click this link to participate!]
Any questions or concerns, feel free to email me or stop by my user talk page. I appreciate your contributions - to the survey and to Wikipedia! Thank you! SarahStierch (talk) 04:30, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
Etymology, "homophobia", all that jazz
Hi, RoP! Thanks for the invite! As I said, I had an off-topic comment, which is this: I wish "pedophilia" (which, I agree, would better be spelled "pediaphilia") didn't mean what it means, because etymologically, if I'm understanding the roots correctly, the word expresses something very useful to me. I've heard in sermons that "philia" (also "phileo") refers, at least in the NT, to the sort of love that a friend has for a friend. Lately, I've discovered that I have an intense desire to be friends with children, because I find them to be fun and interesting. I like to do a lot of what they do. I like to read with them. I like to hear what they say about the world. I like to let them lead me into their own adventures, e.g., when I had the privilege of riding with a little boy on our bicycles and following his lead as he showed me various points of local interest that I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. Maybe it was a mistake that I never had kids of my own, because in this paranoid world, opportunities for a middle-aged non-father to have fellowship with kids are quite rare. Last year, I did get that privilege briefly, and I heard a beautiful girl say to me how much she likes it when adults are friends to children; I'll never forget how my heart soared in joyous affirmation when I heard that. It was a true "Aha!" moment, because from then on, that's how I think of it, I love it when I get to be friends with children and walk miles and miles in their shoes. If I could be the Lord Of Meaning for a day, I'd rip the word "pedophile"/"pedophilia"/"pedia-" right out of the hands of psychiatrists and prosecutors, and I'd put it into this benign schema I've just described. "Pedophile, properly Pediaphile: (n) Person who loves being friends with children".
As for homophobia and prejudice, come to think of it, if I were biased in either direction, it would be pro-homosexual! Yep! I once found a booklet that purported to give the correct interpretation of all those Bible verses that seem to condemn homosexual acts. I was very interested and open-minded about it. In fact, for a while I bought it whole, because I have a difference in sexual orientation myself, so I wanted that booklet to be right! Years later, I was in a Bible study group, and we were having a dialogue with a homosexual guy who was presenting that sort of material. A number of the verses did seem to "fall by the wayside". But there were a couple of stubborn verses remaining. At the close of the session, the pastor decided, and I agreed, that those couple of verses really couldn't be explained away, and that the Bible does condemn homosexual behavior. I really was open to being convinced otherwise. Really! I wanted to be convinced otherwise. There was a time in my life when I was candidly exploring the possibility that I might be gay or bi! (Finally, an honest man came out and said the obvious, "You're not gay", not even partly.) How can I hate homosexuals? I empathize with homosexuals! (I wish I could say more about my difference in orientation, but my wife keeps me in the closet about that. I'm not gay or bi, but I'm not very hetero, either.) PaulSank (talk) 05:02, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
The parts of the bible that can't be explained away almost always as said before involve homosexual acts only and not homosexual love between two people. It would be incredibly difficult to explain away the love between two people. As far as I know the most commonly cited biblical prohibition againist homosexuals is in Leviticus "Thou shalt not lie with a man as thou does with a woman". That gets complicated because it could in the most conservative view condemn all homosexual sex in the most liberal view could be a prohibition from creating a scientific way for a man to have sex with a man in the same way as he does with a woman but there still as of yet not one biblical verse I have found that condemns homosexual love between two people.-Rainbowofpeace (talk) 05:21, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
:Maybe it's because it's after 2am where I am, but your message seems somewhat garbled and I'm having a hard time getting what you mean here. And I'm not well enough informed to be much of a debater on these topics anyway. If I'm going to get involved in debates with activists, I should undergo some sort of training or study first. All I really wanted to do was challenge the neutrality of the article, and I've done that to my satisfaction. Also, I want to stop people from condemning me as a bigot just because I have a belief that activists don't agree with; from the latest reply I got on this point, I can see that I will always be subject to such attacks. Some homosexuals will always absolutely refuse to recognize that I don't hate them. Some of the people who preach tolerance seem to be quite intolerant themselves. Sooner or later, if I live long enough, I suppose I will be imprisoned, executed, or lynched as a "hate criminal". PaulSank (talk) 06:32, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Human taxonomies
Noticing your interest in human taxonomy, I've poked around in that area myself from time to time:
Have you looked at temperament? E.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers-Briggs_Type_Indicator]. Briggs-Myers, Keirsey and Bates, are some names to look up; me, I'm classed as an INFP.
Have you looked at occupational interest? E.g. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland_Codes]
and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Interest_Inventory] I'm an ASI.
Both these taxonomies have been very helpful to me.
There have also been attempts to classify folks according to their "spiritual gifts". E.g. [http://www.kodachrome.org/spiritgift/] PaulSank (talk) 06:59, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
Startup article
Hi, can i get your opinion on this article User talk:Jenova20/Homophobia in the media.
It's still in it's infancy and i saw how well you handled things on the Homophobia talk page recently.
Thanks!
...for removing this [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Dayewalker&diff=next&oldid=457391391] on my talk page. Yeah, that sort of stuff needs to go ASAP. That's a sock of a banned user who always comes back to try and stir things up on the Chaz Bono page. It's been his MO for years. It's pretty sad, really. Thanks for looking out for my take page, though, take care! Dayewalker (talk) 23:15, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
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