On 21 February 2016 at 18:42, Robert Fernandez <wikigamaliel@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 10:39 AM, Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:
Is it a double standard? If that page hadn't been written by Keilana, would it have been published as is?

I'm curious what you mean by this exactly. Do you mean you think I published it because I know Emily personally and would not have published it as a submission from an unknown author? Or are you saying I might not have published a similar article by a male author?

(For what it's worth, I re-published an article by a male academic in the Signpost last year that had the phrase "asshole consensus" in the title. )

If it had been written by editors who are known to regularly use profanity, to the considerable consternation of some members of the community, would you publish it? I mean...it just gave me plenty of warning not to bother participating in the edit-a-thon I usually go to each spring, since it is now apparently considered a net positive to report on new articles about women in such a derogatory way. That's fine. It made it clear that The Signpost would rather be sensationalistic than informative. That's fine too, I can take it off my watchlist again.

No, it's pretty obvious that the profanity-laden article was published because it was profanity-laden, not because it was any good.

Risker/Anne