On 12/5/06, Guettarda <guettarda(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/5/06, Bogdan Giusca <liste(a)dapyx.com> wrote:
Subscription request
has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the
following reason for rejecting your request:
"Hi Cunctator. We're only accepting
women at this time. I suggest you
comment on the existing Wikimedia lists instead. This presence of this
list isn't meant to prevent men commening - which you can still do on
wikien-l etc."
Maybe we should have a mailing list just for men, too! And a mailing
list
for British people where no Americans are
allowed! Or a mailing list
just for atheists where no Christians would be accepted!
Has a need for British-only or atheist-only lists been identified? I
haven't noticed ay such discussion on this list. If such an issue has
been
identified and discussed, then it's worth considering. If it's just based
on the fact that people feel excluded - sure, I don't like being excluded
from things either. But the list was organised to avoid a specific
problem
- women feeling uncomfortable posting to this male-dominated list where
explicitly sexist statements (even if they weren't meant seriously) are
left
unchallenged by a large number of people.
This is not, however, the proper way to deal with the issue. In effect, the
editors who subscribe to wikichix have caved in to the intimidation by
creating their own mailing list. Imagine if Rosa Parks, no matter how tired
she was, caved in to intimidation that December day in 1955. Imagine if
Marin Luther King had given in to intimidation and not called for the
Montgomery Bus Boycott. Caving in resolves nothing.
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