I wrote... > I did not say sexism was ok. To which toby replied... >That is, indeed, the message you are sending
No. It is not. It is what you are saying that I intend. And not that I have to explain myself.... but historically when anyone posts something I'd like to curb, I generally do it off-list. There are exceptions - which is my discretion. I did not yet get a chance to respond to it as I normally do that during the evenings. But I have always said that the biggest way to get in trouble here is personal attacks. And if you don't think that evan's post was a personal attack, then I just don't know what I can tell you. I saw that and jumped on it first. > On a technical list with adults, I believe that when someone posts something > on-topic which has portions you do not personally like that perhaps the adult > thing is to take the points that are in-common and expand on them, leaving > the points behind that you find offensive or inappropriate. The rest will be > dealt with off-list, as I have done in the past. *Did* you, in this instance? Because when somebody posts such vile, wrong, offensive and harmful essentialist hogwash, as Rod did, on a public list, I would be expecting swift action from the moderator, in private and/or in public. If you had given prompt notice of doing so, then readers wouldn't have had to censure it themselves. So... what you're saying is... I have to report to you and the list, give you prompt notice of what I do/decide and what private emails I send OR ELSE you get to decide? That is not how it works. J
