[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sat Nov 25 07:05:21 UTC 2006

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?

Where has anyone done those things?  The simple answer is: kick the bad 
people out, end of story.

--Jimbo