On 6/22/2015 11:46 AM, Marie Earley wrote:
I'm not keen on the phrase "female-related content", I posted this transcript of an exchange I had with an editor https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2015-April/005670.html in April.

When I dared to suggest that women could be interested in topics other than the ones he suggested - "fashion, cookery, domestic affairs and childrearing" - he responded with this:
>"...the purpose of the task force was to increase the participation of women of all sorts, not just radical feminists like you apparently are."
and later:
>"... your comments seem to wilfully denigate the possibility that women could be interested in topics of "traditional" interest to women."

First, remember the Slate article was published back in December right after I and another editor of unknowledged sex got kicked off for minor snippiness  and the guys who were insulting and harassing us just got minor wrist slaps...

Marie's comments are spot on.  If I only had edited on such womanly topics and not dared mostly to edit in male dominated areas like politics, economics, war/peace, etc. I wouldn't not have so many males pissed off at me and stalking and harassing me when I later started to edit about and speak out on gender gap issues. 

Even though Lightbreather and I may have very different views on some economic/political/gender issues, we both were targeted by various individuals because we dared to be women asserting our views in areas where woman's input is considered a nuisance at best and a Wikicrime at worst.

And I'm glad the Arbitration Committee continues to keep editors' comments inside the editor's own section during Lightbreathers current "trial", which has greatly reduced the extreme harassment I was subjected to on the Arbitration talk pages.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Lightbreather/Proposed_decision

I am glad that after I knew I definitely was getting kicked off I wrote the "manchester gangbangers" comment on the Arbitration talk page in response to a longtime harasser who insulted me for the third or fourth time on that page.  And that's even though it is now portrayed as typical of things I wrote, which it was not.

I'm still trying to make time to fill in the blanks here: http://carolmoore.net/wikipedia/  Meanwhile I'm glad others are keeping up their good work.

CM