Re: [Gendergap] Well done, feminism. Now men are afraid to help women at work

2015-10-03 Thread Carol Moore dc
The relevance is that some wikipedia editors would like to shut us all up about harassment and civility and have made or will increase making these kinds of arguments... Already made: "I'm a serious contributor with 100 contributions a day and I shouldn't have to put up with petty nonsense abo

Re: [Gendergap] Well done, feminism. Now men are afraid to help women at work

2015-10-03 Thread Daniel and Elizabeth Case
From having looked only at the headlines: 1) I really don't see the direct relevance of these to this list. 2) Consider the sources: a British newspaper so notorious for its sympathies to the Conservative Party and its associated politics that it's known informally as the Torygraph, and an Ame

Re: [Gendergap] Well done, feminism. Now men are afraid to help women at work

2015-10-03 Thread Carol Moore dc
These articles do look highly exaggerated. And, of course, for some guys saying they are afraid of being accused of harassment is just a new excuse for cutting women out of the loop. However, there is a real problem of people being overly sensitized to the issue due to over-regulation. This i