On 12/5/06, Guettarda guettarda@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/5/06, Bogdan Giusca liste@dapyx.com wrote:
Subscription request has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the following reason for rejecting your request:
"Hi Cunctator. We're only accepting women at this time. I suggest you comment on the existing Wikimedia lists instead. This presence of this list isn't meant to prevent men commening - which you can still do on wikien-l etc."
Maybe we should have a mailing list just for men, too! And a mailing
list
for British people where no Americans are allowed! Or a mailing list just for atheists where no Christians would be accepted!
Has a need for British-only or atheist-only lists been identified? I haven't noticed ay such discussion on this list. If such an issue has been identified and discussed, then it's worth considering. If it's just based on the fact that people feel excluded - sure, I don't like being excluded from things either. But the list was organised to avoid a specific problem
- women feeling uncomfortable posting to this male-dominated list where
explicitly sexist statements (even if they weren't meant seriously) are left unchallenged by a large number of people.
This is not, however, the proper way to deal with the issue. In effect, the editors who subscribe to wikichix have caved in to the intimidation by creating their own mailing list. Imagine if Rosa Parks, no matter how tired she was, caved in to intimidation that December day in 1955. Imagine if Marin Luther King had given in to intimidation and not called for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Caving in resolves nothing.
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