Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
Jim Schuler wrote:
I find it sad that someone feels the need to have a separate mailing list for women. Gender bias is an issue that touches all of us and should be discussed openly by *all of us. *As KC noted, separate but equal is a farce: it is merely separate, not equal, for in the act of separation power is ceded to the majority, a majority that is often boorish and smug in its ignorance.
It is also sad that when some of the men here spoke out in defence of women, they were attacked for piling on (the offender had slinked off without so much as an apology)
Do you think I'm proud of what I said? Do you think I actually meant it? Do you think that continuing to attack me would have helped the situation? Do you think that there was any apology I could have give that wouldn't have been just brushed off as insincere?
Speaking strictly for myself, I would have accepted a simple "That was inappropriate. I apologize."
So far as I can tell, you (Alphax) and I are dialogueing with no continuing recriminations or incivility, and I have no wish to pursue the incident any further, with the exception that the general lack of response to the remark has become a secondary, yet larger, issue.
-kc-