On 7/19/2013 2:31 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
That's an incredibly extreme interpretation of it.
If one has led an incredibly sheltered life, it might seem so. But in the real world today...
And it only takes 1 out of 20 users getting their jollies from it to lead to 1 out of 5 of them acting out on it - so you are encouraging 1% of editors to be sexual harassers. (Or maybe 4 or 5%?) Now how many thousands of editors is that? So every time an editor thinks twice and does NOT make a post that can be misinterpreted, it lessens the chance of giving that 1% "permission" to act out.
Again, talking about possible double standards as to what is considered "untoward".
The one time I got blocked it was because (after incredible harassment on one article for sticking to policy when several editors were pushing OR) I lost my temper at another editor who was giving me a hard time at a noticeboard thread about the topic. I asked at his/her user page if the fact that s/he was being so aggressive with me was related to the fact most of the articles s/he dealt with were related to various forms of women in bondage. (I also posted it on the feminism wikia.com which I incorrectly thought was part of wikipedia; this was pre-Gender gap activism. The editor soon quit Wikipedia claiming something like it was not a safe place to edit.)
When s/he complained at ANI, did an admin just pooh pooh it as no big deal? As the editor having an extreme interpretation of what is a personal attack? Or did I get a six month block? .
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. I won't keep you guessing; a six month block brought down to one week after I realized that asking questions based on editing habits was not right and apologized. Plus a bunch of editors said the fact I was being harassed and Wikiquette complaints had not stopped it were mitigating circumstances.
However, in a 30-40% women wikipedia world the harassment might have ended sooner - and it might not be considered untoward to ask that editor what the heck s/he was up to and ask for opinions here...
CM