On 7/19/2013 2:35 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Sarah. As a parting note. You mention how women dislike confrontation.
And yet I find your email incredibly confrontational.
So colour me unconvinced. Ive met plenty of people of either sex who hate confrontation. And vice versa.
For me I don't view the world divided by gender in the way many on this list have done.
Which is why I am bowing out because THAT is the true casual sexism we need to combat.
Tom
Study the concept of overlapping Bell Curves, with more women on the less confrontational side and more men on the more confrontational side. (Though men on the less confrontational side are probably called nasty names less than women on the more confrontation side are.)
Even as a quite assertive woman (except for brief periods when I've been really beaten down for it and retreat to heal) it took me two years on wikipedia before I went to just a regular noticeboard with an issue and another year or two before took anyone to ANI. And those are big steps up from just defending an edit on a talk page against 2 or 3 highly partisan and/or aggressive editors, which a lot of women (and men) prefer not to do.
And even I have now decided that articles where there's a lot of conflict (or gameplayers who noticeboards just don't deal with properly) aren't worth my time and energy any more and I've unwatched almost all of them...
CM