I think my note backfired. It was meant to BOTH say that the intention of the writer of the note was not /meant/ to be sexist and that this was actually a good place to question whether it was because we need safety to do that, but came across wrong. 

Lesson learned. 


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Nathan <nawrich@gmail.com> wrote:
It's interesting to note that the response to Flutternutter's
criticism has been generally negative, with the exception of Riskers
comments. Several other female editors have supported Drmies, or at
least not reacted well to the notion that his birthday note was
sexist. I can see Fluffernutter's point, of course (and find that part
of the birthday note at a minimum strange), but I wonder if there
aren't more obvious and serious examples with which to spend ones
time.

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