Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Masculinity

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The result of the debate was keep, merge is moderately suppported. --Tony Sidaway Talk 00:19, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Masculinity
"Feminity" redirects to Gender role; article is mostly covered by Gender role &hearts;purplefeltangel 01:12, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge if there is anything not covered in Gender role. Zeimusu | Talk page 01:22, 2005 August 24 (UTC)
 * Comment; There are articles for Feminism and Masculinism while Feminity and Masculinity are (requested) redirected to gender role. Am I the only one who is loosing track of the definitions here? Celcius 01:25, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect works. The -isms are allegedly cultural/political activities and ideologies, while the -ities are aspects of culturally defined identity and so are covered by Gender role.  Geogre 01:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: According to masculinity, the term contrasts to effeminacy, which is not a redirect. Martg76 01:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: The present article is badly written and confusing, but Martg76 makes an interesting point. In common usage 'masculinity' is the opposite of 'effeminacy', and 'virile' is the opposite of 'feminine'.   OTOH, 'virile' and 'feminine' are still largely terms of admiration, not of abuse.  They correlate not only to sexual attractiveness but to positive characteristics of individuals. Cspalletta 18:04, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, if we need to merge content, do it, no need to bring it here. Trollderella 21:15, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, agree with above. Piecraft 22:54, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, for consistency. Radiant_ &gt;|&lt; 13:56, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as above Rich Farmbrough 20:34, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: article could use a rewrite? merge would be ideal
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.