Talk:Ruth Westheimer/Archive 1

Gay Icon Project
In my effort to merge the now-deleted list from the article Gay icon to the Gay icons category, I have added this page to the category. I engaged in this effort as a "human script", adding everyone from the list to the category, bypassing the fact-checking stage. That is what I am relying on you to do. Please check the article Gay icon and make a judgment as to whether this person or group fits the category. By distributing this task from the regular editors of one article to the regular editors of several articles, I believe that the task of fact-checking this information can be expedited. Thank you very much. Philwelch 22:20, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)

German Ancestory and Birth Place
Is there any evidence that she has German ancestory? I'm trying to remove all Austrian, Jewish and Swiss Americans from the German American category.

No, she is "fully" Jewish in ancestry. You should remove her from German-Americans if you want.Vulturell 09:02, 5 November 2005 (UTC)


 * No, you shouldn't, and someone has already reverted the removal of the category. Just because she's Jewish doesn't make her any less German. --Angr/undefined 00:02, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

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I have corrected her birth place. She was born by her grand parents in Karlstadt and later moved back to her parent's residence in Frankfurt.10:13, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * What do you mean she was born by her grandparents? She was born by her mother. Do I detect an non-English speaker? Do you perhaps mean she was born in the Karlstadt where her grandparents lived then was move by her parents to Frankfurt? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.32.113 (talk) 06:51, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Cat:Sex symbols
This seems a rather unlikely claim on the face of it, but perhaps if she'd given me my libido back, I'd think differently. Do we have a WP:CITEation for this? If we have a link per Reliable source that names her as a sex symbol, we've satisfied WP:V. - brenneman (t) (c)  22:09, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Cat:Snipers
I added her to the category: Snipers as per her biographical information. --Xiaou 02:49, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * That's an interesting claim but perhaps we should cite sources about her being a sniper?
 * There's a transcript of an interview where she talks (briefly) about it here. I can't get a transcript of it, but she also talks about it in this NPR interview (which you can listen to for free). --Athaler 03:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * She mentioned this also during an interview at an Israeli Day parade in New York City, which was televised some years back. She also said that she never got to practice her craft, because of the injury sustained; the one cited in the article. BubbleDine (talk) 19:33, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

Choice of photograph
I'm wondering why this dated picture of Dr. Ruth is used on this page. Dr. Ruth has aged since this photograph and this is not how the general populace would recognize her.

If there are no objections to this, I'll implement it next week if I remember. Sartan 23:59, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

I actually did ask around, and this is how people recognize Ruth ;) No changes will be put in.--Sartan 03:57, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

She sat next to us at a Lincoln Center restaurant a week ago, and I recognized her instantly. She did not look much older than she does in the photograph. Catwoman07076 (talk) 15:25, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

World War II
"During World War II, she was sent without her parents to Switzerland when she was ten years old." WWII only started when she was already eleven years old! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.224.31.42 (talk) 21:49, 14 May 2007 (UTC).

Media Career
This section seems to be appropriated, in media res, from another source. It begins abpruptly, referring to earlier material not included in this article. This ought to be cleaned up or rewritten. --Offchance (talk) 16:37, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

No mention of her appearance in the odd little film Une Femme ou Deux (A Woman or Two) with Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver? I believe it's the only film she's acted in. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.204.156.195 (talk) 02:03, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Education
In the Intoduction Westheimer is identified by the New York Times as a Sorbonne-trained psychologist. Then it's stated in the Background section that she studied and taught Psychology at the University of Paris and subsequently received an MA in Sociology from the New School and an Ed.D from Columbia.

Quoting from Ruth Westheimer's web site:

"She then moved to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne and taught kindergarten. She immigrated to the U.S. in 1956 where she obtained her Masters Degree in Sociology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School of Social Research. In 1970, she received a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in the Interdisciplinary Study of the Family from Columbia University Teacher's College."

So there are a number of issues: 1.) Clearly she did not "teach" Psychology at the University of Paris, she taught kindergarten in Paris; 2.) Sociology is not Psychology; 3.) An Ed.D does not qualify anyone to identify themselves professionally as a Psychologist; 4) Ruth Westheimer (on her web site) identifies herself as a psycho-sexual therapist not as a psychologist.

Since the Psychological profession mandates quite strict educational requirements in order to acquire a license to practice I draw the natural conclusion that Dr. Westheimer is not a "Psychologist." The article ought to be corrected to indicate that fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.5.32.113 (talk) 07:17, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Place of birth?
The text says she was born in Frankfurt am Main, the infobox says Wiesenfeld/Karlstadt. Where was she born? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.221.45.219 (talk) 10:55, 11 November 2012 (UTC)