Michael, I have to say that I find your comment offensive. NOBODY expects to be denigrated on Wikipedia, and being "privileged" is no excuse for doing so. This is EXACTLY the kind of behaviour this list was created to try to modify.
Risker/Anne
How so? I would have said the same thing, for the same reason, if the author had been male. The evidence is that a lot of what she complains about is the EXACT SAME THING that happens to anybody who comes into Wikipedia and
attacks editors: some morons act like morons, and a few other cynics start looking to see whether the complainant's hands are clean. Sadly, our morons acted like sexist morons, thus confirming all the worst assumptions of those who don't know how a wiki works. That doesn't give her a free pass from the same constant attention to which all of us, editors and outside critics alike, are subject.
And damned if I'll be told to shut up when I point out that an ordinary working writer would be less likely to get an op-ed in the N.Y. Times than one of the heirs to a profitable publishing company which might easily be viewed as an obvious purchaser of the moribund N.Y. Times company, for what amounts to Hachette's pocket change.
But of course, it's vulgar (meaning "of the common people") to point out when class privilege takes place. How offensive of me.
Now could we go back to working on substantive matters instead of slanging at each other?
-- Michael J. "Orange Mike" Lowrey vulgar common peasant with dirt farmers in his close family
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes."
-- Desiderius Erasmus