Today's wiki page: Fighting is boring.

When this headline on Pandagon pops up in your feedreader, you get the sort of feeling a parent might have when the principal calls. I wrote a long and typo-ridden comment. (I gotta stop linking back to that same entry.)

Come to think of it, that’s kind of the same feeling I have every time Andrew Suffield sends something to a mailing list that users and/or the general public read...

On most technical forums, and even when IRC is not being technical, I tend to hold off on volunteering opinions because I don’t want to seem, I suppose, arrogant, and because someone else probably knows better what they’re talking about. (Of course, sometimes they don’t, and I get mad, but I try not to e.g. splatter it all over Planet.)

I’ve kind of kept at this thing (9 years and counting...) despite that making me feel like I do not even remotely fit in. School is a similar environment it this country. I never spoke up in class, but at least I had the privilege to do so without someone saying “oh, what could they possibly know, they’re a girl.” But that attitude’s still around, and our term papers aren’t still going to be due if we wasted all our time being loud obnoxious pricks. The smaller the stakes, the more energy you can waste picking on people who are different.

Perhaps we don’t do this because we’re sexist; perhaps we’re sexist because we do this.

This is wonderful. (via Amaya.)

Also, I really need to do something about my aggregator situation. Gendergeek is on my list and it’s gotten so lost in the flood that I haven’t clicked through to it in forever. Sometimes I just go to a few of the sites I care about directly. This has to stop.

Evan thinks about the nature of the commons.