Bryan Derksen wrote:
This is all semantic quibbling. The basic
situation is simply this;
Wikimedia has a mailing list for the discussion of editing Wikipedia,
and I am not permitted to join this mailing list because I happen to be
male (a "condition" that has no affect whatsoever on my editing, and
which is only known because years back I decided to use my real name
instead of some uninformative pseudonym).
That is discrimination. Whether it's "reverse" of not is of no concern
to me, the effect is exactly the same.
Yawn. Sorry, you're not Rosa Parks. Do you barge into women's restrooms
and start declaiming about reverse discrimination there too?
If wikichix-l members develop a consensus decision about something that
actually affects WP, they'll have to present it more widely sooner or
later, which will give you plenty of opportunity to savage it.
When you wrote "savage it" I believe you misspelled "carefully consider
and
respectfully discuss it".