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It is Charles you need to thank for that....
I can see exactly why people respond as such.
They're following the simple meta-principle that people shouldn't explicitly exclude people based on gender where the people they're talking to are working on the principle that explicitly excluding people based on gender is perfectly ok when meeting [set of criteria] for purposes of balancing things which probabalisticly or implicitly exclude people.
Both can be perfectly sensible.
It's a common response because it's an utterly consistent and reasonable one.
Mocking it by making a face while chanting "what about the menz" is just trolling and bringing the most toxic elements of twitter culture onto the list. I expected better of you mark.
I can see exactly why people respond as such.
They're following the simple meta-principle that people shouldn't explicitly exclude people based on gender where the people they're talking to are working on the principle that explicitly excluding people based on gender is perfectly ok when meeting [set of criteria] for purposes of balancing things which probabalisticly or implicitly exclude people.
Both can be perfectly sensible.
It's a common response because it's an utterly consistent and reasonable one.
Mocking it by making a face while chanting "what about the menz" is just trolling and bringing the most toxic elements of twitter culture onto the list. I expected better of you mark.
I would have replied (with more detail), but the two Nicks beat me to it.Unfortunately, "what about the menz" is an trivially easy response to make, and there's usually a few people on a list who haven't thought it through and end up derailing the conversation. It's also quite hard to moderate for currently, as we lack per-thread moderation.It'd be good to hear from Chanelle whether the request worked out.