In my experience, except for alleged women coming to GGTF talk age and arbitration page, and a transwoman in Austrian economics, I only ran into one woman who was particularly insulting. And that was on the highly sensitive Death of Caylee Anthony article where tempers sometimes ran high. So anecdotes aren't too helpful.
What helps is to listen to all the women - and men - who have complained about the combative and hostile male-dominated editing culture to the point it's been mentioned repeatedly in research and articles. See the research, media, organizational and related links posted from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias...
CM
On 12/30/2014 10:15 AM, Risker wrote:
Carol....let's just deconstruct what you're saying here. If we were to take the words "female" and "male" and "women" and "men" out of it entirely, would it sum up one of the major issues in editor retention? I'm going to be honest, I've read a genuinely disproportionate number of insulting edits made by women (as a percentage of overall edits by editors I know to be women), and it's something that needs to be kept in mind; while the overwhelming majority of editors are male, I've not seen any evidence that a male editor is any more or less likely to behave badly than a female editor. It's just more obvious because they outnumber us 10 to 1. Risker/Anne