User talk:Small candles

Hi Small Candles,

I'm an anthropology student doing an online research project on wikipedians and their motivations and ideals for writing and editing wikipedia pages. I was wondering if you would be interested in answering a few questions I have - sort of like a small online interview.

Best Karoline Husbond (Student at University of Texas Austin) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karohusb (talk • contribs) 21:11, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Small candles,

I've noticed your contributions on the definition of woman page and have found them relevant to to an article I am editing. I am wondering what your perspective is on the Feminist Views on Transgender Topics page? Foggymaize (talk) 08:15, 5 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again,

Thanks for your comments on my talk page, and on the article itself. As you say, there is no neutral evaluation of feminist views (in summary: liberal feminism believes transwomen are women, radical feminists raise a number of safeguarding issues around self ID. Instead, contributors are obsessed with disagreeing with the feminist stances rather than just describing them which is what Wikipedia is for. Note that feminists aren't going onto trans movement pages and talking about all the ways they are wrong. In your first comment you suggested going to the original sources - but when I do (eg reporting the work of Kathryn Stock, a respected academic) it is immediately deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Foggymaize (talk • contribs) 04:35, 14 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

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