On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Tarc, I felt your "lipstick on a pig" comment about a transexual was not just disgusting, but was a key example of why we needed a WM-LGBT user group to both highlight and gradually improve a hostile culture on Wikimedia projects that appeared to allow blatantly anti-LGBT attitudes and language on its projects under the guise of "being a joke" or "teasing".
I stopped following any of the crap related to your defamatory language, so if you apologised I missed it. If you did apologize, could you give a link to it, or if not then maybe a thread here or Wikimedia-l might be a good way of building some bridges with members of minority groups that you took part in driving away from Wikipedia through comments like this?
Thanks, Fae
Hi Fae, Tarc wrote during or after the Chelsea Manning case that his
comments had been a false-flag operation, intended to shine a spotlight on transphobia. He acknowledged that this was not a good way to do it, and as I recall he apologized.
Sarah