[Gendergap] Gender Gap brouhaha at en.Talk WP:ANI

2014-07-27 Thread Carol Moore dc
It ranges all over the place on various issues. Wikipedia_talk:Administrators'_noticeboard#Where_and_how_to_request_a_Civility_board I'm now trying to use it for a definitive ruling as to whether the Gender Gap task force main page/subpage/essay can list particularly obnoxious examples of

Re: [Gendergap] Gender Gap brouhaha at en.Talk WP:ANI

2014-07-27 Thread Pine W
That discussion seems to have fragmented badly away from the original topic of a civility board, and I'm not sure that listing grievances, even legitimate ones, is likely to produce any good outcomes in that discussion. Might be better to start a new discussion with a narrow focus and specific

Re: [Gendergap] Gender Gap brouhaha at en.Talk WP:ANI

2014-07-27 Thread Carol Moore dc
On 7/27/2014 3:07 PM, Pine W wrote: That discussion seems to have fragmented badly away from the original topic of a civility board, and I'm not sure that listing grievances, even legitimate ones, is likely to produce any good outcomes in that discussion. Might be better to start a new

Re: [Gendergap] Rebirthing PAIN or something like it - and c*nt talk

2014-07-27 Thread Michael J. Lowrey
My British contacts insist that the term cunt as an insult is not sexist in usage or intent. Vulgar, but not sexist. On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 4:02 PM, LB lightbreath...@gmail.com wrote: One of my hurdles as an editor is incivility: a deficiency of it in others and, according to some of them,

[Gendergap] c*nt talk

2014-07-27 Thread Kathleen McCook
These words do cause concern..this is an interesting essay on Bill Maher's use of the word...and the author ends by stating: Someone as clever as Maher, who writes and talks for a living, also probably has other words in his vocabulary that he could use, if he needs to express his contempt for