[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sat Nov 25 04:22:31 UTC 2006

On Nov 24, 2006, at 9:14 PM, Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:

> Fred Bauder wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> So what should we do about it?

Do better personally and not tolerate such behavior from others.  
However, we cannot, by taking thought on it, cause more women to  
edit. We can only encourage and support.

Fred