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The topic my group wanted to focus on was intersex and this is my post straight from the discussion:
After reading the frequently asked questions about the Intersex Society of North America and Anne Sterlings "Of Gender and Genitals" one thing that really caught my eye was how common intersex is. In one answer on the FAQ's it stated that intersex is as common as "1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births" and in "Of Gender and Genitals" it stated that albino births "occur less frequently than intersexual births". I found it interesting how rare both human traits are and I wouldve thought albino births would be more common. I also read that so many male's are born with their "meatus" or "pee-hole" located in many different locations, rather than at the tip where it's supposed to be located, and so "many never knew they'd be urinating from the wrong place their entire lives." I found this as a perfect example of why I thought albino births would be more common and it's because when a person is albino its a feature that you can notice on sight but you could see a dozen humans that fit into the term intersex and never even know it.
I edited this discussion and took out any I's my's we's and any opinions, added citations and transformed the text into something that would hopefully not be taken down on wikipedia. So far the section I added (see below) hasn't been taken down.
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I also wanted to contribute to the topic of the Norplant birth control method. This is my text straight from the discussion board:
When reading chapter 3 in Dorthy Roberts, Killing the Black Body I developed mixed feelings about the Norplant drug. When it described norplant as the "ideal contraceptive-long acting, effective, convenient,." and backed up that claim with reasons like "there is no need to remember to take it daily, as with the pill" and "Women do not have to interrupt sex to use it...nor do women need their partners cooperation, as with condoms." it sounded like a cool new product for women to use if they wanted to. I mean hey a 5 year guarantee for what a 10-15 minute process? Sounds great for someone if they CHOSE to get it. But once it got into about how they would FORCE women to use it to curb the birthrate of poor blackkwomen I couldn't agree anymore. It also talked about how "millions of people are unqualified for parenthood and should remain childless." Although it may be true that not everyone who has a child is necesarrily ready to be a parent, is it okay to take that right of giving birth away from a person?
I had to edit this post a lot because it had a lot of my opinions and how I felt about Norplant but not facts that I could post on the actual Norplant page. So instead of just copying and pasting I had to rewrite it entirely. When I was finally ready to post it onto the Norplant page it turns out that someone beat to the punch and most of what I had ready to post had already been posted by another user, I'm assuming a classmate. Instead of just giving up on the topic entirely I decided to find a way to contribute my text to a different page that still related to the topic. I searched a number of phrases that would hopefully lead me to a page that I could contribute to and I somehow wound up at the Poverty reduction page. As you can see below I posted to the "other approaches" section.
My Contributions
My First Contribution
- I added this paragraph to the
Intersex Society of North America page:
The frequently asked questions about the Intersex Society of North America and biologist Anne Fausto-Sterlings "Of Gender and Genitals" both note how common intersex is. In one answer on the FAQ's it states that intersex is as common as "1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births"[9] and in "Of Gender and Genitals" it states that albino births "occur less frequently than intersexual births".[10] According to Anne Sterling, many male's are born with their "meatus" or "pee-hole" located in many different locations, rather than at the tip where it's supposed to be located, and so "many never knew they'd be urinating from the wrong place their entire lives."[11] This as an example of why some would think albino births are more common than intersex births, because when a person is albino its a feature that you can notice on sight but you could see a dozen humans that fit into the term intersex and never even know it.
My Second Contribution
- I added these two sentences to the Statistics section of the
Women in science page:
Women, in the United States and many European countries, who succeed in science tend to be graduates of single-sex schools. [56] Women earn 54% of all bachelor's degrees in the United States and 50% of those in science and only 9% of U.S. physicists are women. [57]
My Third Contribution
- I added this paragraph to the section "other approaches" on the
Poverty reduction page:
Also one approach to reduce poverty was with Norplant, a form of birth control, which was approved in the United States onDecember 10th, 1990. Norplant prevents pregnancy for up to five years by gradually releasing a low dose of the hormone into the bloodstream.[84] In an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer entitled "Poverty and Norplant: Can Contraception Reduce the Underclass?", deputy editorial-page editor Donald Kimelman proposed Norplant as a solution to inner-city poverty, arguing that "the main reason black children are living in poverty is that people having the most children are the ones least capable of supporting them.[85] Kimelman claimed in his article "it's very tough to undo the damage of being born into a dysfunctional family. So why not make a major effort to reduce the number of children, of any race, born into such circumstances?" According to Dorothy Roberts book "Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty", within two years of Norplant being approved thirteen state legislatures had proposed some twenty measures to implant poor women with Norplant and a number of these bills would pressure women on welfare to use the device either by requiring implantation as a condition of receiving benefits or by offering them a financial bonus. Every state made Norplant available to women for free through Medicaid or other forms of public assistance and to teenage girls through school programs that presented Norplant as the most reasonable option. Efforts were also made to provide Norplant to women without Medicaid. As Roberts sated, "California governor Pete Wilson allocated an extra $5 million to reimburse state-funded clinics for Norplant going to women without Medicaid or Medi-Cal coverage." See full Norplant page.
My Fourth Contribution
- I added this sentence to the "controversy" section of the
Norplant page:
The new contraceptive was instantly embraced by policymakers, legislators, and social pundits as a way of curbing the birthrate of poor Black women.
""My Peer Reviews""
Peer review for group midgeholland: Really great job on the research done for you guys' topic. It's not hard to tell that you guys each put in a lot of effort and didn't throw it together over night. I found it really interesting that instead of adding to the page women in science you created an entirely different page and really put the information needed to keep it up on the site. You guys did a very good job on formatting the pages you created like a typical Wikipedia page. You hit all of the aspects of the project including both the group and individual work. Great Job!
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/info/en/?search=User:Sjm594/sandbox
Peer review for user sjm594: You used a lot of outside sources, which really shows how much research you put into the project. In your contribution to the sexism section you mention the book “NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRANIOLOGY: THE STUDY OF THE FEMALE SKULL” in all caps but when you cite it it’s not in all caps. If the book isn’t officially titles in all capitals then I don’t think you should capitalize it. Or if you’re going to capitalize it, capitalize it both in the contribution and when you cite it. That was about the only thing that caught my attention that needed changing. Other than that you did a great job!
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The topic my group wanted to focus on was intersex and this is my post straight from the discussion:
After reading the frequently asked questions about the Intersex Society of North America and Anne Sterlings "Of Gender and Genitals" one thing that really caught my eye was how common intersex is. In one answer on the FAQ's it stated that intersex is as common as "1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births" and in "Of Gender and Genitals" it stated that albino births "occur less frequently than intersexual births". I found it interesting how rare both human traits are and I wouldve thought albino births would be more common. I also read that so many male's are born with their "meatus" or "pee-hole" located in many different locations, rather than at the tip where it's supposed to be located, and so "many never knew they'd be urinating from the wrong place their entire lives." I found this as a perfect example of why I thought albino births would be more common and it's because when a person is albino its a feature that you can notice on sight but you could see a dozen humans that fit into the term intersex and never even know it.
I edited this discussion and took out any I's my's we's and any opinions, added citations and transformed the text into something that would hopefully not be taken down on wikipedia. So far the section I added (see below) hasn't been taken down.
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I also wanted to contribute to the topic of the Norplant birth control method. This is my text straight from the discussion board:
When reading chapter 3 in Dorthy Roberts, Killing the Black Body I developed mixed feelings about the Norplant drug. When it described norplant as the "ideal contraceptive-long acting, effective, convenient,." and backed up that claim with reasons like "there is no need to remember to take it daily, as with the pill" and "Women do not have to interrupt sex to use it...nor do women need their partners cooperation, as with condoms." it sounded like a cool new product for women to use if they wanted to. I mean hey a 5 year guarantee for what a 10-15 minute process? Sounds great for someone if they CHOSE to get it. But once it got into about how they would FORCE women to use it to curb the birthrate of poor blackkwomen I couldn't agree anymore. It also talked about how "millions of people are unqualified for parenthood and should remain childless." Although it may be true that not everyone who has a child is necesarrily ready to be a parent, is it okay to take that right of giving birth away from a person?
I had to edit this post a lot because it had a lot of my opinions and how I felt about Norplant but not facts that I could post on the actual Norplant page. So instead of just copying and pasting I had to rewrite it entirely. When I was finally ready to post it onto the Norplant page it turns out that someone beat to the punch and most of what I had ready to post had already been posted by another user, I'm assuming a classmate. Instead of just giving up on the topic entirely I decided to find a way to contribute my text to a different page that still related to the topic. I searched a number of phrases that would hopefully lead me to a page that I could contribute to and I somehow wound up at the Poverty reduction page. As you can see below I posted to the "other approaches" section.
My Contributions
My First Contribution
- I added this paragraph to the
Intersex Society of North America page:
The frequently asked questions about the Intersex Society of North America and biologist Anne Fausto-Sterlings "Of Gender and Genitals" both note how common intersex is. In one answer on the FAQ's it states that intersex is as common as "1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births"[9] and in "Of Gender and Genitals" it states that albino births "occur less frequently than intersexual births".[10] According to Anne Sterling, many male's are born with their "meatus" or "pee-hole" located in many different locations, rather than at the tip where it's supposed to be located, and so "many never knew they'd be urinating from the wrong place their entire lives."[11] This as an example of why some would think albino births are more common than intersex births, because when a person is albino its a feature that you can notice on sight but you could see a dozen humans that fit into the term intersex and never even know it.
My Second Contribution
- I added these two sentences to the Statistics section of the
Women in science page:
Women, in the United States and many European countries, who succeed in science tend to be graduates of single-sex schools. [56] Women earn 54% of all bachelor's degrees in the United States and 50% of those in science and only 9% of U.S. physicists are women. [57]
My Third Contribution
- I added this paragraph to the section "other approaches" on the
Poverty reduction page:
Also one approach to reduce poverty was with Norplant, a form of birth control, which was approved in the United States onDecember 10th, 1990. Norplant prevents pregnancy for up to five years by gradually releasing a low dose of the hormone into the bloodstream.[84] In an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer entitled "Poverty and Norplant: Can Contraception Reduce the Underclass?", deputy editorial-page editor Donald Kimelman proposed Norplant as a solution to inner-city poverty, arguing that "the main reason black children are living in poverty is that people having the most children are the ones least capable of supporting them.[85] Kimelman claimed in his article "it's very tough to undo the damage of being born into a dysfunctional family. So why not make a major effort to reduce the number of children, of any race, born into such circumstances?" According to Dorothy Roberts book "Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty", within two years of Norplant being approved thirteen state legislatures had proposed some twenty measures to implant poor women with Norplant and a number of these bills would pressure women on welfare to use the device either by requiring implantation as a condition of receiving benefits or by offering them a financial bonus. Every state made Norplant available to women for free through Medicaid or other forms of public assistance and to teenage girls through school programs that presented Norplant as the most reasonable option. Efforts were also made to provide Norplant to women without Medicaid. As Roberts sated, "California governor Pete Wilson allocated an extra $5 million to reimburse state-funded clinics for Norplant going to women without Medicaid or Medi-Cal coverage." See full Norplant page.
My Fourth Contribution
- I added this sentence to the "controversy" section of the
Norplant page:
The new contraceptive was instantly embraced by policymakers, legislators, and social pundits as a way of curbing the birthrate of poor Black women.
""My Peer Reviews""
Peer review for group midgeholland: Really great job on the research done for you guys' topic. It's not hard to tell that you guys each put in a lot of effort and didn't throw it together over night. I found it really interesting that instead of adding to the page women in science you created an entirely different page and really put the information needed to keep it up on the site. You guys did a very good job on formatting the pages you created like a typical Wikipedia page. You hit all of the aspects of the project including both the group and individual work. Great Job!
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/info/en/?search=User:Sjm594/sandbox
Peer review for user sjm594: You used a lot of outside sources, which really shows how much research you put into the project. In your contribution to the sexism section you mention the book “NINETEENTH-CENTURY CRANIOLOGY: THE STUDY OF THE FEMALE SKULL” in all caps but when you cite it it’s not in all caps. If the book isn’t officially titles in all capitals then I don’t think you should capitalize it. Or if you’re going to capitalize it, capitalize it both in the contribution and when you cite it. That was about the only thing that caught my attention that needed changing. Other than that you did a great job!