[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sat Nov 25 01:02:05 UTC 2006

On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Puppy wrote:

> I appreciate that, Fred. I am not concerned so much about the lack of
> response to my concerns, as I am about the lack of response to overt
> sexist attacks on this mailing list. I am well aware it is not
> Wikipedia. Most of the people on this list are the same people as on
> Wikipedia. If you call a black man a nigger in the field, you will at
> least /think/ he's a nigger in the house. And don't think the attitude
> doesn't bleed through, because it does.

Actually, some active mailing list participants have only minimal  
connection with Wikipedia and their posts are often not read.

Fred