I feel *exactly* the same way, and I'm a Commons admin :( This speaks for me, too.
-- Allie
On May 12, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Katherine Casey <fluffernutter.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Alas no, I'm not up to your challenge. I'm
subject to quite enough aggression and strange sexualization of situations on enwp; I
don't have the energy to dive headfirst into an even worse atmosphere of those things
on Commons. I'm much more comfortable speaking here, in an environment of respect and
support, than I would ever be there, in an environment where my right to my opinions would
be challenged and I'd be shouting into a void while thinking that at any moment
someone was going to ask me to show my "tits".
Not everyone has unlimited tolerance for doing things that make them very uncomfortable;
as someone whose tolerance for that is perhaps lower than some other people's, my hope
is that my voice here, where I am comfortable speaking, will be heard - as it seems to be,
given this thread and the inroads that have been made on Commons as a result of it - and
that my speaking here it will provide support to the people who are willing to brave that
environment.
-Fluff