Kevin, I would like to thank you for this email. I think you expressed several things I was thinking a lot better than I would have been able to.
From, Emily On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all - > > I've been in a significant academic time crunch for the last several > weeks, and Sarah is currently AFK, which is why neither of us have > participated in this thread so far. One of us (Sarah, me, or Cindy,) > will probably have further comment on this thread in general and may > reach out to some of you individually in the near future, but I wanted > to send out a general note that the mods are reading this thread and > some sort of action is likely to be forthcoming. > > For now: > I agree with Fluffernutter that a lot of the behavior that has > occurred on this thread is not productive. I subscribe to this list > because I believe it should be a place where we can have important > discussions. I believe that the gendergap in Wikimedia projects has > significant real-world implications that need to be addressed to avoid > significant long term consequences. I believe that many of the > subscribers to this list, including many people who have participated > here, believe the same way. > > If you do believe the same way, I would ask that when you start to > type a post to this list, please consider whether or not your comment > will benefit our mutual goals, or whether it will harm them. If you > feel you can't make a comment that will be productive (or at least > neutral) at any given point, please hold off on sending your email for > a while - even if it's just for a few hours - to allow tensions and > feelings on all sides to de-escalate. > > Thanks, > Kevin Gorman > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap >
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