[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax at gmail.com
Sat Nov 25 14:28:26 UTC 2006


Jim Schuler wrote:
> I find it sad that someone feels the need to have a separate mailing list
> for women.  Gender bias is an issue that touches all of us and should be
> discussed openly by *all of us.  *As KC noted, separate but equal is a
> farce: it is merely separate, not equal, for in the act of separation power
> is ceded to the majority, a majority that is often boorish and smug in its
> ignorance.
> 
> It is also sad that when some of the men here spoke out in defence of women,
> they were attacked for piling on (the offender had slinked off without so
> much as an apology)

Do you think I'm proud of what I said? Do you think I actually meant it?
Do you think that continuing to attack me would have helped the
situation? Do you think that there was any apology I could have give
that wouldn't have been just brushed off as insincere?

-- 
Alphax



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