<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">--- On </font><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Sun, 6/2/11, Sarah Stierch <i><sarah@sarahstierch.com></i></b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"> wrote:</font><br><blockquote style="border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br>From: Sarah Stierch <sarah@sarahstierch.com><br>Subject: Re: [Gendergap] Hello and a (small!) manifesto<br>To: "Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects" <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org><br>Date: Sunday, 6 February, 2011, 17:26<br><br><div id="yiv849118449">
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Hi Andreas! Welcome to the list.<br>
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<pre>I think women react differently to incidents like this. A bloke will dig his
heels in and on some level relish the pissing contest, and if need be waste
three hours online on it.
A woman will think, "I can't be bothered to waste my time arguing with that
ignorant twerp", and go and do something else – and remember that WP ain't
worth her time. In this way, enthusiasm is killed very quickly.
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I totally agree! This is what happened to me when I first started
editing. I originally just gave up and say "Screw this" and moved
along. <br>
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:D <br>
Sarah</div><div id="yiv849118449"><br></div></blockquote><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">:)</font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial" size="2">Andreas</font></div></td></tr></table><br>