Andre Engels wrote:
2006/12/5, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
You are absolutely right that what is damaging to the community should not be allowed. What you fail to do is show why and how the community is damaged. It is far easier to show how our community will be strengthened by the Wikichicks. Assumptions are the mother of all fuck-ups.
Our community is strengthened by having the Wikichicks be part of it, tell everyone their opinions and help on Wikipedia and the other sites along with the others. It is not strengthened by putting them on a separate list so they hear noone and noone hears them. Having them do their thing and us do ours is an option. But it's a much worse option than actively working together.
If a man makes a sexist remark on a mailing list but there are no women to hear it, is he still a misogynist?