[Gendergap] Breast cancer related information

2013-05-14 Thread Theo10011
Hi This news story is doing the rounds in the news but I don't know if everyone has seen the original NY times op-ed by Angelina Jolie[1]. She talks about her preemptive and precautionary double-mastectomy because she found out she was at a higher risk for breast cancer after genetic screening. I

Re: [Gendergap] Accidental Troll Policy - beyond gender gap

2013-05-12 Thread Theo10011
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 3:25 AM, Sylvia Ventura sylvia.vent...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Theo, thank you for documenting my experience on meta, clearly a rookie mistake on my part, I hadn't revisited that page since and just now saw Sarah S note. I'm not giving up but I'm still figuring out the best

Re: [Gendergap] Accidental Troll Policy - beyond gender gap

2013-05-10 Thread Theo10011
Hi Sylvia It seems the crux of your argument is against the nature of the Internet itself, rather than anything specific to Wikipedia. There is nothing unique about anonymity on Wikipedia. In fact, it could be argued that internet itself promotes anonymity - Internet protocol don't require any

Re: [Gendergap] Accidental Troll Policy - beyond gender gap

2013-05-10 Thread Theo10011
Hi Sylvia I share some of your concerns and agree with your insightful observations. My comments are inline- On Sat, May 11, 2013, Sylvia Ventura sylvia.vent...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Theo, thank you for the thorough response. You bring up very valid points, specially around privacy standards

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Theo10011
I wanted to ask a question to the members of the list- Is all pornography inherently bad, against women, perhaps, Anti-feminist but does it degrade women just by its sheer existence? Are there women who either a) don't have strong opinions on it b) are supportive of some form of it. For the

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: No. Record-keeping is required by law for images whose production involved actual people engaged in sexually explicit conduct, meaning actual or simulated—(i) sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital,

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: Theo, that is completely wrong. Record-keeping requirements only apply to images where models were required to engage in actual sexually explicit conduct, and moreover, it only applies to images created from 1990 onward.

Re: [Gendergap] Larry Sanger's blog post: Where is the pornography?

2012-05-31 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Outside prosecutors can not prosecute, or charge any editor based on their username, whether its User:someguy542 or User:Ladiesman232, there is no real

Re: [Gendergap] Article Cumshot in English and German Wikipedia

2012-04-27 Thread Theo10011
Hi Andreas Some observations- On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@gmail.com wrote: A Google image search for gay cumshot indicates there are 37.8 million results. Cumshot -gay has 44 million. If these numbers are correct, then gay and non-gay cumshots are almost equally

Re: [Gendergap] He/she vs. she/he

2011-12-29 Thread Theo10011
with them. :P On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:20 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: And I defended the reverting editor. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk%3AGender-neutral_languageaction=historysubmitdiff=468184170oldid=468179760 ). [...] I'm sure Dominic can

Re: [Gendergap] He/she vs. she/he

2011-12-28 Thread Theo10011
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Ryan Kaldari rkald...@wikimedia.orgwrote: ** Yes, the traditional usage has been predominantly masculine, but in modern usage, they is the dominant form. See my reply at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Gender-neutral_language#She_before_he.3F

Re: [Gendergap] Editing Girl Talk

2011-12-22 Thread Theo10011
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:47 AM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stie...@gmail.comwrote: Max, a campus ambassador, voices his thoughts about women, Wikimedia and campus ambassadors. Who's Max? sbm ;) Theo ___ Gendergap mailing list

Re: [Gendergap] study about gendered names and IRC

2011-12-14 Thread Theo10011
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:00 PM, ChaoticFluffy chaoticflu...@gmail.comwrote: Hmmm, interesting. I've often wondered whether I would have had a less pleasant experience fitting into the wiki(p|m)edia IRC channels if I had an obviously-gendered nick. As it is, I get maybe one random pm a month,

Re: [Gendergap] Fwd: [Ticket#2011100710013059] Pictorial Depictions

2011-10-07 Thread Theo10011
Hi Why is an OTRS ticket being discussed on a public mailing list? Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the ticket info and address were supposed to be private, unless otherwise noted, no? Regards Theo On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 1:59 AM, leilah ozaibi email.lei...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, and a

Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap Digest, Vol 9, Issue 5

2011-10-01 Thread Theo10011
Hi I am mostly active on other ML and signed on to Gender gap list solely to respond to Maggie and Sarah. Let me be clear, Rupert thruner and Pete are both right, you were not nice at all in your previous response and border-line uncivil, Maggie. And you are not blunt, maybe slightly misinformed.

Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap Digest, Vol 9, Issue 6

2011-10-01 Thread Theo10011
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Maggie rockerre...@gmail.com wrote: Also, Peter, when a person is offended by something someone else has said and you don't understand it---it's probably best not to comment on it. I am offended by something you said, somewhere, please don't comment on it.

Re: [Gendergap] Gendergap Digest, Vol 9, Issue 5

2011-10-01 Thread Theo10011
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Andreas Kolbe jayen...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On *Sat, 1/10/11, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com* wrote: Sarah, I am not sure what you've been trying to say lately[2]. Rest assured that it made perfect sense to others. ;) Wonderful, now I can finally sleep