Thanks. It really makes me as a women expressing concerns about feeling
unsafe and unable to talk about issues in terms men on the list feel
unimportant and resolved because a man has said they do not care who
moderates. Clearly the fact that a man has stepped up to enforce civility
on women and other men do not care about the moderator's gender means my
concerns are over blown. Thank you. As a woman interested in the
gendergap, as one who feels like her voice is silenced by men, I am
ecstatic that you have spoken up on my behalf. I will now go silently sit
in my corner, because my voice and the voices of other women are clearly
being tended to by men.
On Monday, May 7, 2012, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
I don't care who is moderating, but it would be
nice to have more
civility on this list. When I resigned as moderator, I invited several
people to take my place (all women). They all declined citing the
contentious nature of the list, except for SlimVirgin. SlimVirgin,
unfortunately, was not able to moderate for very long due to health issues.
That leaves us with Sue, SarahS, and Kevin. Sue is far too busy to actually
moderate the list and SarahS often has a COI in moderating since she is
frequently the target of attacks. So that leaves Kevin. Now that SlimVirgin
has rejoined the list, perhaps she would be interested in helping to
moderate again?
Ryan Kaldari
On 5/6/12 2:16 PM, Laura Hale wrote:
On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Kevin Gorman <kgorman@gmail.com<javascript:_e({},
'cvml', 'kgorman(a)gmail.com');>
wrote:
Hi all -
Given this, I'm going to change how the moderation of this list is
handled a little bit moving forward. Previously, there has been no
hands-on moderation of this list. From now on, there will potentially
be some. It won't be draconian - and really, I hope it'll never be
used at all - but I think it's important to guarantee that the
atmosphere of this list remains friendly, and I wanted to announce how
I will be approaching it.
This really makes this place safe. Thank you very much. We've done an
excellent job resolving the leadership gendergap on WMF with male +1,
female +0.
Honestly though, I can tell you that while I am glad for a moderator,
having a male come in and tell me they will be making this a safe place,
given the historical problems of men making this feel UNSAFE on this list
and the increase in male participation, this makes me uncomfortable and
more like this will be an even more unsafe space. :( The first thing you,
as a male who knows there are issues with women who feel unsafe
participating in this list because of those problems, is make a declaration
of firm male leadership and less tolerance of this type of behavior. It
feels like a major disconnect, where the end result is women will feel MORE
silenced lest they offend you.
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