[WikiEN-l] Systemic bias wrt gender

[Jim Schuler]

Excellent points.

On 11/24/06, Puppy <puppy at killerchihuahua.com> wrote:
>
> Fred Bauder wrote:
> > On Nov 24, 2006, at 8:39 PM, Puppy wrote:
> >
> >
> >> As to why it would rate a response, I was thinking Fred's assertion
> >> that
> >> "we should be on the lookout
> >> for bias or other bad behavior towards women editors and do what we
> >> can
> >> to mitigate its effects" might actually include discouraging blanket
> >> attacks on women.
> >>
> >
> > It does. But especially to targeting people in the manner of
> > Wikipedia Review.
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> So where is the limit, Fred? Attack women on the mailing list, ok. Call
> them a cunt, that's ok too. Say all women are idiots, that's ok. As long
> as we don't out their personal information? Where is your line for "bad
> behavior" drawn, precisely? There has been a thread for a couple of
> months about the imbalance of the ratio of men to women editors for
> months now, and I am saying attacking women /because they are women/ is,
> to put it mildly, off-putting. Its beyond uncivil. It is, as David
> Gerard's friend pointed out, "hopelessly patriarchally biased and
> useless to harmful."
>
> -kc-
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Jim
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