[Gendergap] User blocked for sexist comment, many disagree - it wasn't sexist.

[Fred Bauder]

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents#Block_review_for_Baseball_Bugs
>
> The first "unblock" statement shares the link to the joke and the
> reprimand
> by an admin on the users page telling them they can get blocked for
> ongoing
> comments like that. Fluffernutter points out that there is a "boyzone" in
> Wikipedia and that it's not right to mock a users gender. I do appreciate
> Fluffernuter speaking up about this, I know it's not always something
> that
> she likes to get mixed up with (so to say - as we talked about in IRC
> today).
>
> A dialogue takes place ranging from people thinking the joke wasn't
> sexist,
> to Fluffernutter is being "PC".
>
> I don't believe that the user the joke was directed at participates in
> the
> conversation - for all we know they might have not been offended - but,
> this
> is just another example of how people seem to be unclear about what
> "sexist"
> behavior is.
>
> Where I've worked and attended school, it was always very clear that
> behavior or comments like that were/are not prohibited, but more often
> than
> not, people don't speak up when people behave poorly (silent victims).
> Unlike on Wikipedia, where people generally do speak up - the shroud of
> the
> internet, I suppose.
>
> Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, an educational environment. And when people
> have to start questioning "Is this offensive or not? Is it sexist or
> not?"
> then clearly there is a problem with something in the culture and system.
>
> -Sarah Stierch

I'm just looking into this and am not happy. There was a great wind from
all quarters...

It gets complicated fast. What the hell is this:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous&diff=453620216&oldid=453618738

Fred