Re: Things to notice (was Re: [GENERAL] Code of Conduct: Is it time?, broken thread I hope)

2016-01-11 Thread Gavin Flower
On 11/01/16 15:00, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Someone (never mind who, this isn't intended to be a blame-game message) wrote: Am I, as a mere male […] :-) It was me. The phrase "Mere Male" was title of a column I read in NZ Women's Weekly that my mother bought when I was a teenager. >>> An

Re: Things to notice (was Re: [GENERAL] Code of Conduct: Is it time?, broken thread I hope)

2016-01-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Hi, On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 10:10:23PM +1300, Gavin Flower wrote: > The phrase "Mere Male" was title of a column I read in NZ Women's Weekly > that my mother bought when I was a teenager. That's nice. I still found it offensive enough in the context to think it worthy of note. (I'm not really

Things to notice (was Re: [GENERAL] Code of Conduct: Is it time?, broken thread I hope)

2016-01-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Someone (never mind who, this isn't intended to be a blame-game message) wrote: > Am I, as a mere male […] :-) Even with the smiley, _this_ is the sort of thing that causes discussions to wander into hopeless weeds from which projects cannot emerge. I _know_ it is tempting to make this kind of