On vulvas and assholes, by Sue Gardner Options

[thekohser]

Sue Gardner actually talks some sense here, but I kind of choked when she (the one who refuses to say how much the WMF paid the consulting firm to handle the donors survey) noted:

we’ve become an echo chamber: we hear only voices like our own, expressing points of view we already agree with. People who believe other things fall silent or abandon the conversation or are reduced to impotent rage.

Disclose the amount paid to Q2 Consulting, Sue, and then we'll let you start taking credit for your cogent interpretations of what's going on all around you, on your watch.

[EricBarbour]

If that woman had any guts, she'd start by kicking David Gerard out of Wikipedia permanently.
Because here he is, trolling her.

David Gerard
September 28, 2011 at 11:29 PM

This post appears mostly to be the tone argument:

http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Tone_argument

- rather than address those opposed to the WMF (the body perceived to be abusing its power), you frame their arguments as badly-formed and that they should therefore be ignored.

This is somewhat problematic.

David Gerard
September 28, 2011 at 11:33 PM

I also find it odd that this post completely fails to mention the massive de:wp poll voting 85% against the imposition of the filtering system.

I note also that you fail to acknowledge this is an imposition.

This is a strange framing of the issue.

And he's far from the only one.