Damn straight!
Shit stirrers unite :)
(And yes, until you've met Carol Moore in person you don't know the real
Carol Moore!! She's most epic and well worth it to go out of your way to
have a pint with her!).
-Sarah
[I've just shifted my shit starting back to GLAM stuff these days...]
On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Carol Moore dc <carolmooredc(a)verizon.net>
wrote:
On 11/26/2014 1:37 PM, Kevin Gorman wrote:
It's noteworthy that they are not
non-appealable blocks. I honestly
don't think this is beyond the scope of the list, although it's certainly a
depressing topic. Allowing severe gendered slurs to be bandied about with
essentially no penalty is likely something that is going to decrease the
participation of women on ENWP - which is not a good thing. I know there's
been some debate in the past about whether or not ENWP specific issues are
appropriate for this list, but I believe this is a large enough one to be.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
Since en.Wikipedia is the largest one and WMF in US, obviously large
developments
regarding the gender gap are relevant.
I was content for the first six years to be on my best behavior (except
for occasional outbursts when provoked) and work on topics of interest,
though I wasted a lot of time in BLP disputes with people out to trash
subjects of BLP.
But for almost the last two years I've had to deal with insulting editors
pulling outrageous numbers and no adults willing to tell them to cut it
out. This Arbitration is just the culmination of it. So I feel no desire
to associate with Wikipedia UNTIL the culture is changed so BLP violations
and insults and harassment are taken seriously. And I see no need to be a
well-behaved woman any more. If I'm ever allowed to edit my talk page
again, I'll tell them I do not apologize for using the terms gang banger
and gang rape to describe the goings on of the last six months. When I'm
allowed to come back despite saying that, I'll know the culture has changed.
Sitush said I'm a rabble rouser. All he did was pump up my ego and now I
really want to rouse some rabble. This isn't the place, and Wikipedia
certainly is not the prime target. However, as a former standup comic and
long term satirist, I will have to have my satisfaction by making sure
certain individuals and certain events go down in youtube history in song,
photographs and screenshots. Hope I don't change my mind when I get the
bees nest out of my sinuses. But then given my long history of exposes of
B.S., not likely. In fact, I've got a couple I should have published in
on-demand book form by now if I hadn't been messing around on Wikipedia.
Call me disruptive, Tim. Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn...
CM
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