On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 9:57 PM, patricia morales < mariadelcarmenpatricia@yahoo.com> wrote:
Everyone is very welcome! I would like to explain what I trying to say. The idea was only to emphasise the participatory role of women in this process. There are several historical gaps (black people, women, young people, "underdeveloped" countries, ea.) and suddenly people want to solve them, and at the same time exclude the group to be benefited in the process.
Patricia
I don't think anyone was suggesting excluding the benefited group (nor,
really, is there any evidence *young people* is an area we lack contribution from :P). At no point was saying "women can't get involved in this process" discussed - that'd be counterproductive. Your idea of having dedicated female-friendly areas seems contradictory. 1) it segregates the community, 2) if the main community isn't female-friendly, we should be tackling that, not trying to shield people from the issues and 3) if the main community isn't female friendly, bringing potential female editors into a "female-friendly" niche environment and then dropping them in the main community seems rather akin to the story of itsy-bitsy spider and his waterspout.