[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

Sun Nov 26 04:40:06 UTC 2006

I, too, don't see Alphax's comments as anything other than
ill-conceived, rather than/as opposed to fully hateful.

On 11/25/06, Sean Barrett <sean at epoptic.com> wrote:
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> Jimmy Wales stated for the record:
> > Puppy wrote:
> >> I appreciate that, Fred. I am not concerned so much about the lack of
> >> response to my concerns, as I am about the lack of response to overt
> >> sexist attacks on this mailing list. I am well aware it is not
> >> Wikipedia. Most of the people on this list are the same people as on
> >> Wikipedia. If you call a black man a nigger in the field, you will at
> >> least /think/ he's a nigger in the house. And don't think the attitude
> >> doesn't bleed through, because it does.
> >
> > Can someone send me a link to the archive where these attacks took place?
> >
> > --Jimbo
>
> The attacks were an ill-considered remark from Alphax, and then my
> wondering why Alphax was being lynched for what was to me clearly a mere
> grumble rather than a truly hateful remark.  But wait!  My questioning
> of their lynching revealed that I too am a vicious misogynist!  From
> there, the script is playing out as usual -- there is of course no
> defense against a charge of misogyny; /any/ response whatsoever (other
> than immediate public self-abasement followed by a good long
> self-flagellation) proves the charge.
>
> - --
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