On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Carol....let's just deconstruct what you're
saying here.
If we were to take the words "female" and "male" and
"women" and "men" out
of it entirely, would it sum up one of the major issues in editor
retention? I'm going to be honest, I've read a genuinely disproportionate
number of insulting edits made by women (as a percentage of overall edits
by editors I know to be women), and it's something that needs to be kept in
mind; while the overwhelming majority of editors are male, I've not seen
any evidence that a male editor is any more or less likely to behave badly
than a female editor. It's just more obvious because they outnumber us 10
to 1.
On the subject of gender nomenclature, I continue to find it interesting
when for some writers males are "males" and females are "women" in
normal
usage. Not just picking on Carol, because I've observed it on a
semi-regular basis - but almost exclusively where feminist topics are being
discussed.