On 9/5/15, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > Oliver Keyes wrote: >>On the general subject of codes of conduct and what they bring (or >>don't bring) in terms of user safety and a sense of inclusion, I >>recently encountered http://wp.me/p11Aax-4aq on Twitter - it's an >>interesting read and brings up a couple of points definitely worth >>thinking about, namely that the intent behind a CoC is not to be the >>be-all and end-all of user safety but instead to set a very minimum bound >>of what is acceptable. > > Am I supposed to know what a manfeeling is? It seems weird to me that the > push (perhaps a movement, who knows) to implement codes of conduct has > become so enmeshed with the ultra-liberal feminist movement. I think there > are people who sympathize with and even support efforts to have codes of > conduct in technical spaces, but who don't want to feel demonized for > being male. There's a dark irony in sites such as Geek Feminism Wiki > feeling the need to prominently answer "Are men welcome here?" in their > FAQ (<http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki_FAQ>). > > This isn't to say that there aren't good ideas and good people behind some > of this content, but I can see a lot potential allies to the code of > conduct cause being put off by the militant feminist language and > overeager citations of feminist theory. > > MZMcBride > >
I'm not sure what the phrase "ultra-liberal feminist movement" means, but if what you're trying to say is that all the "You're either with us- or you're an evil scumbag" rhetoric is getting annoying (and probably backfiring on those employing it), then I agree 100%. -- bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
