[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sat Nov 25 03:50:31 UTC 2006

Fred Bauder wrote:
> On Nov 24, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Puppy wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> It does. But especially to targeting people in the manner of  
> Wikipedia Review.
>
> Fred
>
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So where is the limit, Fred? Attack women on the mailing list, ok. Call 
them a cunt, that's ok too. Say all women are idiots, that's ok. As long 
as we don't out their personal information? Where is your line for "bad 
behavior" drawn, precisely? There has been a thread for a couple of 
months about the imbalance of the ratio of men to women editors for 
months now, and I am saying attacking women /because they are women/ is, 
to put it mildly, off-putting. Its beyond uncivil. It is, as David 
Gerard's friend pointed out, "hopelessly patriarchally biased and 
useless to harmful."

-kc-