[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sat Nov 25 03:39:47 UTC 2006

Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
> Puppy wrote:
> <snip>
>   
>> How is Guettarda's email "malicious needling", yet Alphax's overt
>> misogyny doesn't even rate a comment?
>>
>>     
>
> Trolling rarely rates a comment. I'm sorry that you took me seriously.
>   
As I had asked for confirmation of your post, I feel rather strongly 
that at that point it was incumbent upon you to clarify matters if they 
were not as they appeared. As you chose rather to confirm that you were 
indeed insulting me (and indeed all females who post to the en mailing 
list), I took you at your word, and I do not see that is any poor 
reflection on any but you. In short: your defense of your uncivil and 
bigoted posts is now "Oh, I was just trolling"? Not seeing how this 
casts your posts in any better light, but so be it.

As to why it would rate a response, I was thinking Fred's assertion that 
"we should be on the lookout 
for bias or other bad behavior towards women editors and do what we can 
to mitigate its effects" might actually include discouraging blanket 
attacks on women.

-kc-