Fred Bauder wrote:
On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Puppy wrote:
When I first started contributing to this thread I received a number of emails, all from women, all thanking me and encouraging me, yet none of them posted to the list. Now I know why. There is no longer any question of whether there is gender bias on WP: it has been demonstrated here. Sean actually attacked Guettarda for calling bigotry what it is - now, if someone had made comments similar to Alphax's about a minority ethnic group, would anyone have kept quiet? Would Sean have called someone speaking up against it "malicious needling", as he characterized Guettarda's comments? How is Guettarda's email "malicious needling", yet Alphax's overt misogyny doesn't even rate a comment?
This is the mailing list, not Wikipedia. But yes, your reasonable concern was responded to poorly by several people.
Fred
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I appreciate that, Fred. I am not concerned so much about the lack of response to my concerns, as I am about the lack of response to overt sexist attacks on this mailing list. I am well aware it is not Wikipedia. Most of the people on this list are the same people as on Wikipedia. If you call a black man a nigger in the field, you will at least /think/ he's a nigger in the house. And don't think the attitude doesn't bleed through, because it does.
One puppy's opinion