Carrite posted my questions to GW. The answers reveal what I have suspected all along. She's checked out. Ironic, since relentless criticism and ceaseless undermining from the likes of Carrite is probably the reason why.
http://wikipediocracy.com/forum/viewtop ... 37#p224737Having previously been a significant force for change and an inspiring leader for others less powerful, albeit still hamstrung by the numbers and environment, she's just drifting around the wiki now, doing what she likes, just like every other drone. She claims she was not particularly offended by Kupdung's reaction to her reasonable request, which I doubt is the real truth.
She's not going to do anything about it, attempting to brush it off as just another time someone was rude to her on the internet, rather than a remarkable example of the ingrained hostile environment for women on Wikipedia, from a high profile editor who claims to be a feminist, no less. Oh, but she will say something if she sees him post misogynist comments again. But she won't be specifically following him.
The chances of him saying something similar seems remote. Not because he will have learnt from the experience and reflected, committed to changing his behaviour. Rather simply because it seems unlikely anyone else will even dare challenge him if he ever does something so obviously sexist again.
Hilariously, she says Kupdung seems to have dropped any issues he has with her, so that excuses her dropping the issue too. She must think people are blind, or stupid. We can see what he has done. Thrown a tantrum, claimed to be the victim of bullying, and gone off in a sulk, claiming to be too infirm and too afraid of having his block log ruined, to even think of challenging the "wild insinuations" he feels subjected to. All in the apparent hope the community decides who was in the right. As they appear to have done.
It's all so.......pathetic.
She objects to being cast as the token women of ArbCom, although I can see no other way to describe the fact that at the last election, despite all their admirable work, two women stood down, to be replaced by the only two women standing, like them getting a seat from a slate of eight viable candidates for eight women was even in doubt. The token quota stable, they are sadly looking even less willing or capable of changing Wikipedia, challenging the status quo.
As we've seen before, she justifies stepping down because she felt she had to prioritise her real life, as if history hasn't shown the Committee has no issue with having males on it who are unavailable for days at a time, or who simply go inactive with nobody having a clue if or when they will return. They clearly have no issue with people not having the time to properly study cases, indeed there is no such obligation to do so if you are not the drafter. Similarly, there is no obligation for emails to be responded to in a timely fashion, if at all. They have fifteen people precisely for that reason. It is a role with precisely zero specification laid out as to how much time you are expected to devote, or any other minimum performance criteria. Jesus Christ, they let Drmies do the job, and if you think he prioritised it at all, in any way, you clearly don't know the man.
Anyway, it's an answer. So now you know, women of Wikipedia. The situation is as it was many years ago - just keep your heads down and your opinions to yourself. Under no circumstances are you to make a male editor feel uncomfortable by pulling them up on their casual sexism, much less overt mysogyny. You definitely cannot criticise any powerful man who claims to be your friend and ally. Know. Your. Place.
It took 148 posts, but they got there in the end. No need to thank me Jake. You just keep on trying to persuade her she was in the wrong, give her tips on how to ensure people like Kupdung are not made to feel uncomfortable or on the defensive. We wouldn't want that, not us Wikipedia critics.
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