Indeed: the ignorance of even the few tarnishes the image of the many, especially when that ignorance is allowed to fester.
On 11/25/06, Puppy puppy@killerchihuahua.com wrote:
James Hare wrote:
Separate mailing lists for women? What perfenander.
Guys, we're not going to be improving an encyclopedia/news site/dictionary/quote database/species directory/education wiki/series
of
textbooks/media repository/primary source library if we keep bickering.
Jimmy-Jimmy said it best: kick out the bad people.
Then get back to work.
That's a bit simplistic, IMHO. "Bad people"? Truly horrific cases, like the person who vandalized SlimVirgin's user page about a year ago, I have no problem calling "bad people" and banning. But the overall atmosphere, the lack of concern, that is not so clear cut. I just received yet /another/ email from a women, and I replied asking why she didn't post to this list? and she replied that /she was afraid of being attacked/ if she did. Now, obviously I don't suffer from the same intimidation - but it seems I am more an anomaly than I realized. I am concerned I sound like a rabid feminist, which I'm not - but the volume of email I am receiving tells me there is an issue. And simply "kicking out the bad people" won't work. The "bad people" is us.
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