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Woman-Friendly Barbelith - commentary and analysis

 
  

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:15 / 14.08.06
It's not your gender, Granny, it's your age. I'm sorry, but there it is.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
19:35 / 14.08.06
I can still do the Foxtrot with the best of them, young man!
 
 
Tom Coates
07:10 / 15.08.06
I have to say, at a cursory level of thinking, I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a women-only thread on Barbelith being enforceable, for a range of reasons including that it seems to me to be quite unfair to potentially be talking about other board members in the particular or general sense without giving them a space to respond or a place to critique the argument from. I'm also not sure that I believe that minority voices on the board are generally suppressed, although I'm prepared to be persuaded otherwise. I'd rather Barbelith talked about problems with Barbelith. This may be a naive view.
 
 
Lurid Archive
15:40 / 15.08.06
I'm not sure I'm comfortable with a women-only thread on Barbelith being enforceable

My position on this - just mine, btw, as I haven't discussed it with other policy mods - is that I'm acting as though there is a consensus about the nature of the women only thread, which policy mods are mildly enforcing, and male identified posters are largely respecting. However, I also think it is up for grabs if anyone wants to seriously contest it. But as I have no problem with the way it is at the moment, no one seems particularly upset by it and some posters clearly want such a space to exist, I'm happy to leave it as it is.
 
 
Ticker
16:50 / 15.08.06
Er, I thought the F-I only thread 'sploded in a flaming bit of not sustainable anyway?

As well as the idea not being about enforcement at all but rather self elected removal of one group to allow another group some rolled-up-sleeves collective discussion?
 
  

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