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Tell me what you think.

Lately, there have been many articles and discussions about what people should be putting in their articles. I was involved in a conversation where people where talking about stereotypically categorising genders and sexuality. E.g. Article- How to date a girl- People automatically think im not a boy so I shouldn’t go on there or obviously the article is aimed to boys. These are the things that we need to discuss so that we can work on editing and equality because in this example not all people agree in same sex marriage so please write in your opinion.

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As I mentioned to you earlier, I don’t think we should start a debate about this :) 

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@ WithGlitter

I never asked to debate I asked you to place your good point in because I have read over again rather thoroughly and I agree with it so may you respond to my discussion page description. 

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But now that you agree, there is nothing to solve :) 

P.S. Discussion pages are for receiving messages about your edits and work on wikiHow, so you don’t really want people to post their opinions on problems on it. I think that’s best saved for some kind of debating website. 

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Actually, talkpages are for that.:slight_smile:And debate is healthy, I support this discussion although I’m not entirely sure what is being asked. @Zachariah05 I’m realllyy confused about what you’re saying here. Are you asking people’s advice on how articles should handle gender stereotypes? Could you post some excerpts from what you think are controversial articles?

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@Marina I’ll try and explain what I think is going on:slight_smile:You may have seen my forum discussion ( http://forums.wikihow.com/discussion/20248/problems-with-dating-articles#latest ) on how some articles are gender stereotyped (e.g. some articles on finding a boyfriend assume that the reader is female). @Zachariah05 commented on it and said that if changed it may be offensive to anti-gay people or something like that.

So then we had a small debate and he asked me and others to post opinions on this forum and his talk page. I don’t really feel like there is anything to be debated since no one seems to be for anti-gay articles on wikiHow (and I’m not sure why anyone would be).

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I think that we should at least open the floor to any discussion.:slight_smile:I agree with you on this, but if he feels more discussion about this is needed, I think we should hear him out. @OP , I think you’re mistaking these articles to be “pro-gay” or “anti-gay” when wikiHow simply strives to be neutral in all regards. What are you reading that seems to be “pro gay”?

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That’s what I was saying @ Marina  . The articles could be edited so that they are neutral because people who are gay/bisexual/ lesbian to name a few may be offended but aiming it to them may offend the Christian religion who don’t accept that. This is why I asked him to post his opinion so that anyone who may have misunderstood will now have confirmation on what is right. And thank you for saying  that you should hear me out. @ WithGlitter  thinks that I am trying to start a debate. The reason why I have done this is because there will be people who are asking the same question and now we have confirmed an answer.

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@Zachariah05 The thing is, I thought that we already had a confirmed answer. I didn’t think that we needed to create another forum about the same thing when nobody had said it was wrong to neutralize genders. And I’m a she:slight_smile:

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Sorry I thought you were a he but its all good