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Let's be friendly to GIRLS

Name: Anonymous 2009-10-20 9:22

• Have a zero tolerance policy concerning online harrassment and enforce it.
• Don't allow sexist jokes. It's impossible for a woman to tell if you "really" mean it, and even if you don't it will be tedious and insulting for her to spend her time ignoring or humouring sexist jokes.
• Write all of your introductory material in such a way that a woman will recognise herself in it just as much as a man will. Use "she" to describe readers in various places, and use female names for some of your hypothetical examples when you have them.
• Unless your group has an explicitly sexual purpose, minimise the discussion of the sexual desires of participants. Many women (entirely justifiably) fear online harrassment in sexual contexts.
• Involve women in the creation and governance of your forum at every level.
• If there is an anti-feminist incident in your forum, apologise simply. Don't use phrasing that suggests that only women would have found the incident upsetting, or that you would have found the incident unproblematic if there weren't complaints. Don't tell women how they should feel about the incident: listen to them describe how they feel.
• Women are often placed in the role of "nanny" in forums. Don't leave the enforcement of social norms to the women members of the group.

Source: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Women-friendly_forums

Name: Anonymous 2009-10-20 13:40

>>1
+5, Funny

Preaching zero tolerance while demanding tolerance. "Waaah, I said zero tolerance FOR HARASSMENT!" There is, of course, a universal definition of harassment.

Women are apparently so sensitive (yet cannot see when men are joking), that jokes cannot be allowed and the problem is clearly not the women.

Women must have a position of power, but not a position where they must use it. Nannies are bad bad bad, even though that is a position of governance. Actually, this is the most contradictory thing in there.

Ignore them and go about your business. Feminism has long since stopped being about granting female rights, and has now expanded to actively oppressing anything that dares to oppose anything other than total female dominance. They cast themselves in the light of the victim every time, but nobody feels sorry for them and they should participate in active society just like normal women and men.

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