On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 12:09 PM, FRED BAUDER fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
On Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:29:57 +0100 Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
As this thread demonstrates, what discussions about the massive gender imbalance in Wikimedia editorship need is more men discussing why it might or might not be important.
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Radical feminist notions that men should reduce editing or participation are counter-productive. The solution is OR not NOT; anyone should be able to edit without struggle.
I'm not quite sure what you're aiming at here, but Liam's point was that it was somewhere between unhelpful and downright harmful to have discussions about the Wikimedia gender gap conducted entirely between men. (It's a bit like having a discussion about Wikipedia conducted entirely by people who've never used the internet.)
I would describe this as "common sense" rather than "radical feminism".
Chris