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I don’t really know enough to rework that entry. My personal experience has been that many women, at least younger and less wise ones, want a penis so they can pee standing up. A few think it would be fun to play with all the time, but mostly it’s the whole waiting in line for the bathroom thing. 😉

Joking apart, that entry is a travesty – it’s a bit like someone explaining the Uncertainty Principle by saying that when things get really, really small you can’t see where they are until they move (and when they move you can’t see where they are any more! d’oh!). Unfortunately I haven’t got the Freudian chops to rewrite it either, but thanks for highlighting it – it reminds me of Larry Sanger’s critique of Wikipedia, which I wrote about in one of my first blog posts (all of six months ago).

What’s not there is any sense of the history of the concept … Wikipedia may actually lend itself to problems like these, by starting from the question “What does $FOO mean?”

Uncertainty Principle by saying that when things get really, really small you can’t see where they are until they move (and when they move you can’t see where they are any more! d’oh!). Unfortunately I haven’t got the Freudian chops to rewrite it either, but thanks for highlighting it – it reminds me of Larry Sanger’s critique of Wikipedia, which I wrote about in one of my first blog posts (all of six months ago).

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