Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Puppy wrote:
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How is Guettarda's email "malicious needling", yet Alphax's overt misogyny doesn't even rate a comment?
Trolling rarely rates a comment. I'm sorry that you took me seriously.
As I had asked for confirmation of your post, I feel rather strongly that at that point it was incumbent upon you to clarify matters if they were not as they appeared. As you chose rather to confirm that you were indeed insulting me (and indeed all females who post to the en mailing list), I took you at your word, and I do not see that is any poor reflection on any but you. In short: your defense of your uncivil and bigoted posts is now "Oh, I was just trolling"? Not seeing how this casts your posts in any better light, but so be it.
As to why it would rate a response, I was thinking Fred's assertion that "we should be on the lookout for bias or other bad behavior towards women editors and do what we can to mitigate its effects" might actually include discouraging blanket attacks on women.
-kc-