I spent most of yesterday NOT looking at the news, making my husband turn
off the TV when the news came on, and not logging in to any online
experience where I was likely to run into video related to this. It is
what I do, as a matter of course, to make it through the day without
triggering the memories of terror I experienced as a result of being
involved in a very violent episode in the past.
This has nothing to do with Wikipedia, Wikimedia or the WMF. The fact that
this man killed both a male and a female former colleague strongly indicate
that his problem was not gender-driven, that it was driven by the fact that
these former colleagues had complained about him in the past. That people
with this sort of sociopathy use gender-specific descriptive nouns is
pretty much irrelevant, and I'm hard-pressed to understand why you think it
important to start a conversation about the utterings of someone this
mentally imbalanced to show that there is a gender gap *anywhere*, let
alone here. This guy was a powder keg, and he was striking out at anyone
whom he believed had caused him harm. I do not believe that his actions
were motivated by sexism.
Risker/Anne
On 27 August 2015 at 03:01, Neotarf <neotarf(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there any doubt what this kind of language is for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIdrUHKkG6Y
It's not for a collaborative environment, that's for sure.
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