Excellent points.
On 11/24/06, Puppy puppy@killerchihuahua.com wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
On Nov 24, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Puppy wrote:
As to why it would rate a response, I was thinking Fred's assertion that "we should be on the lookout for bias or other bad behavior towards women editors and do what we can to mitigate its effects" might actually include discouraging blanket attacks on women.
It does. But especially to targeting people in the manner of Wikipedia Review.
Fred
So where is the limit, Fred? Attack women on the mailing list, ok. Call them a cunt, that's ok too. Say all women are idiots, that's ok. As long as we don't out their personal information? Where is your line for "bad behavior" drawn, precisely? There has been a thread for a couple of months about the imbalance of the ratio of men to women editors for months now, and I am saying attacking women /because they are women/ is, to put it mildly, off-putting. Its beyond uncivil. It is, as David Gerard's friend pointed out, "hopelessly patriarchally biased and useless to harmful."
-kc-
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