On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:15 AM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Carol....let's just deconstruct what you're saying here. > > If we were to take the words "female" and "male" and "women" and "men" out > of it entirely, would it sum up one of the major issues in editor > retention? I'm going to be honest, I've read a genuinely disproportionate > number of insulting edits made by women (as a percentage of overall edits > by editors I know to be women), and it's something that needs to be kept in > mind; while the overwhelming majority of editors are male, I've not seen > any evidence that a male editor is any more or less likely to behave badly > than a female editor. It's just more obvious because they outnumber us 10 > to 1. > > On the subject of gender nomenclature, I continue to find it interesting when for some writers males are "males" and females are "women" in normal usage. Not just picking on Carol, because I've observed it on a semi-regular basis - but almost exclusively where feminist topics are being discussed.
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