[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sat Nov 25 14:40:45 UTC 2006

Actually, "I'm sorry I said that" would have worked nicely.  "I'm sorry that
you took me seriously" places the onus on the offended, not the offender.
In any case, the issue is much larger than you alone, it is at least as much
about the responses of those who leapt to the defense of something that is
indefensible.  As for "attacking" you, it was you who began the assault,
even if you did not mean it, and I and others who took issue with you
comments have every right to point out the foolhardiness of those comments.

On 11/25/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
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Jim
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