On Nov 24, 2006, at 5:42 PM, Puppy wrote:
When I first started contributing to this thread I received a number of emails, all from women, all thanking me and encouraging me, yet none of them posted to the list. Now I know why. There is no longer any question of whether there is gender bias on WP: it has been demonstrated here. Sean actually attacked Guettarda for calling bigotry what it is - now, if someone had made comments similar to Alphax's about a minority ethnic group, would anyone have kept quiet? Would Sean have called someone speaking up against it "malicious needling", as he characterized Guettarda's comments? How is Guettarda's email "malicious needling", yet Alphax's overt misogyny doesn't even rate a comment?
This is the mailing list, not Wikipedia. But yes, your reasonable concern was responded to poorly by several people.
Fred