Puppy wrote

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.

I'll speak up, though I said something indirect earlier. I have no idea what Alphax was thinking he was doing, but I hope in future he'll do it in another forum, or, better, not at all. (If people don't pile on, it can be because 'don't feed the trolls' is sound advice.)

There is no longer any question of whether there is gender bias on WP: it has been demonstrated here.

Don't assume this is representative of Wikipedia.

Sean actually attacked Guettarda for calling bigotry what it is

I heartily disapproved of that, (a) because it was wrong, and (b) because it prolonged the discussion of inappropriate comments. By the way, all these posts are very public.

Charles

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