[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sat Nov 25 03:57:01 UTC 2006

On Nov 24, 2006, at 8:50 PM, Puppy wrote:

> 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."

None of that is acceptable.

Fred