On 3/16/11 1:48 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
If you and Erik want to belong, that's great. It
should be purely in
support roles: Women say they are doing this project and need help. WMF
officials step in and say we can help this way. If this was the general
mode of male participation on the list, of specific support offered in
response to specific requests, male involvement would be less problematic.
I'm not sure that relegating the anyone to "support roles" based on
gender is the wisest course of action. Isn't that mindset one aspect of
the problem at hand?