Fred Bauder wrote:
As I said earlier, women obviously are doing something else which they find more worthwhile. We should continue to have a welcoming attitude, which I maintain we have as is shown by our enthusiasm in advancing women to leadership positions. We should be on the lookout for bias or other bad behavior towards women editors and do what we can to mitigate its effects.
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Fred
Would our "welcoming attitude" to women and "being on the lookout for bad behavior and mitigating its effects" include chastising men who make overtly sexist and insulting remarks? Alphax made such remarks, and thus far two people have spoken up - Mindspillage, a female; and Guettarda.
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?
-kc-