Re: [activities] Nomination: Michael Chesterton

Melissa.

I find your seemingly pro-fem-activist approach to every comment that
comes out of anyone's mouth that has anything to do with the opposite
gender in general to be proportionally inappropriate and completely
unnecessary.
I have witnessed on a few occasions times where you have completely
(and un-provoked) come out of your usual idle status to rip people
apart and in some cases make them feel uncomfortable being in SLUG at
all.
These occasions more-often-than otherwise did not involve you or any
sexual connotations or innuendos  thereon.

At some point, you decided you'd be the judge of what is and is not
humorous, and what is and is not appropriate. You've also stepped in
on 2 members of the opposite sex having a laugh and liturally diverged
the situation ti to a sexual discrimination matter and proceeded to
drive them from the channel. This was just awe-inspiring.

 I feel you have taken it upon yourself to be the community Hyena and
I find this completely counter productive to the spirit of the team. I
also find the manner in which you so vocally force-promote your
maturity to be extremely aggressive and at the best of times
offensive, despite the fact you're supposedly trying to be some kind
of role model for females or some such (utter) junk.

I personally know several members of the community that have the same
thoughts but for the sake of peace have kept quiet, but when someone
else's progression as a human or otherwise is exploited by someone
else community influence I think it's time to say something.

Riding the wave of legitimate past sexism for the purpose of present
discrimination is exploitative and spitefull to an almost sociopathic
degree.

T.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:15 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 2009/3/9 Harrison Conlin <[email protected]>:
>>> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Lindsay Holmwood
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I enjoy passive-aggressiveness as much as the next person, but could
> you please enumerate your concerns?
>>> Sure. In IRC, he regularly shouts out the name of male genitalia, and
> frequently makes sexual innuendos. Also, last month he was removed from
> the channel for doing an action of patting a female on the rear in a
> sexist manner.
>>
>> I wasn't going to say anything, but since the topic was raised...
>>
>> It wasn't the rear, it was the front :(
>
> For those who do not know the context of this, the term used was 'fanny'.
>
> The interpretation of that word depends greatly where you take your
> reference from:
>
> * The definition I grew up with, which I believe has en-gb heritage, does
> mean the front [0].
>
> * However, if using the en-us definition (which due to Americanisation now
> appears the predominantly accepted definition in .au), it is the rear [1].
>
> In my experience, most people in .au do know both definitions of the word.
> I find that those who choose to use it do so in ambiguous situations for
> maximum shock/confusion/insult value -- with the intent on claiming the US
> definition as their defense.
>
> I am choosing to take the stance of 'assuming stupidity rather than
> malice' in this instance, and hoping that Chesty merely meant the poor
> girl's rear...
>
> ... which is *still* inappropriate, and should not be tolerated. At all.
>
>>
>> Honestly, given the efforts we've been making in terms of addressing
> gender imbalance issues in the past couple of years, I think it would be
> a massive step backwards if such behaviour was rewarded.
>>
>
> I agree wholeheartedly with this.
>
> I'd also like to point out that *everyone* can provide assistance to SLUG
> and helping does not require Committee membership [2].
>
>
> --
> [0] Sorry, no link since I'm at work, and my desk is alongside the main
> thoroughfare. I did try search 'nomenclature fanny' but the results did
> not seem SFW, although the text for them might provide insight. Feel free
> to Google for yourself though.
>
> [1] My mother has an amusing story from a seminar she attended many many
> moons ago, where the speaker was an US American who complained how sore
> his 'fanny' was from the longhaul flight.
>
> --
> Melissa Draper
>
> w: http://meldraweb.com & http://geekosophical.net
> p: +61 4 0359 5395
>
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