Welcome, Neotarf! Just want to note that right now GGTF is almost
exclusively guys who don't like the project.
They are trying to "divide and conquor" by having one GGTF wikiproject
to deal only with more articles about women (something already done by
several wikiprojects!!) and the other Wikiproject about the behavioral
issues that drive women away. I'm sure that will end up at
Miscellaneous for Deletion in no time!
But all this just makes it clear progress isn't going to happen soon ON
wikipedia....
And I agree the ArbCom decision was atrocious and corrupt. We should
have gotten the same wrist slaps and warnings as the other guys.
CM
On 12/13/2014 1:13 AM, Neotarf Betacancri wrote:
Greeting all, it looks like I'm late for the
party, but since I am
being hung as Gender Gap, I may as well join the mailing list.
I may not know much about Gender, but I do know that using slurs based
on gender, race, or sexual orientation is not cute, or "just
swearing". It is bigotry, and it is deeply offensive. This is
identity politics, pure and simple, and it has no place on Wikipedia.
I am indebted to Kevin Gorman for his statement
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/gendergap/2014-November/004945.html>,
"Neotarf is being topic-banned from a project they were a productive
contributor to on a handful of flimsy
diffs." I have always been one of the Arbitration committee's biggest
fans, but this decision is disturbing on a number of levels.
A WikiProject operating under the professed aims of the Foundation has
been subjected to unprecedented harassment, again and again. So, did
the Arbcom tell the bullies that the Gender Gap project's talk page
was not the right venue to discuss/ad nauseum/ whether the project
should exist or not, as they would have with any other project or
article page? No. The bullies are told to please be nice very nicely
and this time we really mean it. The targets of the bullying have had
their fragile and emerging leadership destroyed and discredited, and
their workspace salted with discretionary sanctions. The harshest
treatment of all was reserved for someone who was passing by and tried
to help. It is yet to be seen what effect this will have on any
potential "allies" programs that may be in the works.
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