[Gendergap] Proposal: Forking gendergap: Main list for women and transgender, sublist for male supporters

[Brandon Harris]

On 3/16/11 1:48 PM, Laura Hale wrote:


> If you and Erik want to belong, that's great.  It should be purely in
> support roles: Women say they are doing this project and need help.  WMF
> officials step in and say we can help this way.  If this was the general
> mode of male participation on the list, of specific support offered in
> response to specific requests, male involvement would be less problematic.

	I'm not sure that relegating the anyone to "support roles" based on 
gender is the wisest course of action.  Isn't that mindset one aspect of 
the problem at hand?