User talk:Ejdep5

May 2023

Hello. This is a message to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions, such as the edit(s) you made to Andrea Long Chu, did not appear to be constructive and have been reverted. Please take some time to familiarise yourself with our policies and guidelines. You can find information about these at our welcome page which also provides further information about contributing constructively to this encyclopedia. If you only meant to make test edits, please use your sandbox for that. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you may leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Isabelle Belato ^🏳‍🌈 20:32, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

This is unacceptable. Wikipedia is a website that seeks to educate its users with accurate information that does not twist the truth in order to support any one political belief system. The page on Andrea Long Chu would give the reader the impression that Chu is a non-controversial figure in feminism, rather than the reality, which is that Chu's writings are highly controversial, and contain content that many feminists find dehumanizing hate speech towards women. If a writer had come under fire for racist comments, that information would be allowed to be included in their Wiki page so that readers understand the whole scope of who this person is as an individual and professional. Women are a protected class in the United States of America. Why is Chu's own highly controversial writing about women "not constructive" to add to the page? My contributions have quoted Chu's own words about her transition and perception of womanhood from an essay she wrote describing her girlfriend in sexist and racist terms, and in her seminal book Females which contains controversial descriptions of womanhood and femaleness that she defines as the essence of sexual submission, rather than the state of being the female sex. This interpretation of women and femaleness is crucial to forming an accurate understanding of this individual as a writer and self-identified feminist. I request that my edits be reinstated, or that I am allowed to add a separate category to Chu's page entitled "Controversies" that include the aforementioned quotations of her own writing on women from Females and her writing on asian women in her 2013 Duke student newspaper essay. I look forward to your reply. Emily. Ejdep5 (talk) 21:34, 13 May 2023 (UTC)