The usual fare for Gender Desk. Behind the curve, jumps to conclusions not backed by the evidence, hopes for a world that will never exist in a million years, cannot ever bring herself to highlight the obvious - Bishonen is a women too. She is closer to the current idea of what a women Administrator on Wikipedia looks like, not Gorilla Warfare, who in her present capacity is stymied in her efforts far more by Bishonen's equivalent in the Committee, Opabina Regalis, rather than any of the men.
Opabina is the women who has magically just started playing on the fact she is not only a women, but a scientist, as if somehow that makes her bullshit smell any more sweeter. GEE, I wonder why that is? Could it be that with the help of Gender Desk et al, low rent third rate feminists, this has suddenly become wikicode for DON'T HIT ME, I'M A TINY LITTLE WOMEN, and then she sucker punches you with the sexist patriarchy one two.
You know who were women scientists on Wikipedia well before it became not just a media talking point but a magic cloak of invisibility and a mystical wand of virtue? People who didn't particularly need to shout about it for other people who can read the Wikipedia back office properly to see they were genuinely good people with the right ideas about what was wrong and how to fix it? Gorilla Warfare and Keilana. We're taking several years ago now when this was even a thing, and yet still no sign that their failure to achieve lasting reform has dented the ambitions of the WMF much, if at all. How much money do you need to block Eric Corbett for telling two users in a week to fuck off? None. Zero. Nada. It was, is, and on current evidence always will be, a task for a volunteer to react. Or not, as the case may be.
The sad plight of Wikipedia's women Administrators has been known for years, notably from these two. Oh how we were horrified at the sad story of Keilana in her bedroom, crying her little eleven year old eyes out. Some of us showed the appropriate level of sympathy, but also took up the difficult task of asking why her parents didn't know she was being exposed to this abuse by Wikipedia? I wrote about in a forum that went boom, and we didn't see Gender Desk shedding any tears, or wondering why the hyeenas of Wikipediocracy were laughing their asses off.
Some of us are wondering why, even now, after all the recent stories, Wikipedia doesn't get even a hundredth of the scrutiny over how they administer their duty of care for its users compared to Facebook and Twitter et al, never mind Jeremy Kyle. I don't see much on Wikipediocracy about that, because Wikipediocracy is hardly the place where you're going to find such introspection, not when most of the people there are card carrying cult members, indeed many are in the precise volunteer roles which could and should have been pushing the WMF for the necessary changes.
You want to talk about the women of Wikipedia? Plenty of women Administrators, plus TWO women Arbitrators (Opabina, obviously, and Kate), and other high flying women editors (and many prominent male "allies") supported RexxS' bid for Adminship, filed the same week he literally called another editor a "prat". Too many to list here. He succeeded on a literal knife edfe, in large part due to personal friendships (so fuck anyone's online experience of the man, it's not
real), and even then only after some crusty old dudes gathered in a smoke filed from to declare civility was unimportant to Adminship. So here we are, Bishonen's right hand man, long time friend of Eric Corbett (as in, actual drinking buddy in Manchester pubs), is all up in this shit now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he's really arguing the case that the WMF are in the right? He graciously accepts they think they are, but that's just the typical patronizing bullshit you often see on Wikipedia, every minute of the day.
You want to talk about the real issues faced by the WMF? This comment by RexxS, now possessing the full gravitas of an Administrator, as evidenced by the continuing charmed lives of the likes of Eric Corbett and The Rambling Man, both under specific ArbCom sanctions, is a goddamned dirty lie.
The community endorsed ArbCom's creation of arbcom enforcement sanctions, which effectively ended the issue of "unblockables" quite some time ago.
There was nothing surprising about seeing RexxS the Administrator say this either.....
I can't take this latest statement seriously either. If the fact that Fram said "Fuck ArbCom" was sufficient for T&S to act because ArbCom had a "CoI", then if Fram had also said "Fuck T&S", would they have recused themselves as well? Does this mean that if we all say "Fuck ArbCom; Fuck T&S", we're all safe from being banned? It sounds like we have a simple resolution for this problem: shall I start a page for us all to express ourselves? --RexxS (talk) 20:59, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
.....he is after all the same editor whose request for Adminship revealed his penchant for creative, most would say absurd, arguments to explain away inconvenient roadblocks to his idea of good governance, like ArbCom policy, and copyright (the latter presumably explaining why he admits to having reused with Fram).
Did the volunteer women of Wikipedia who supported this fucknut for high office really do their due diligence of this Administrative candidate? Or did they just phone it in, like the worst volunteer men Wikipedia has to offer? I wrote it all up here.
This
actual opening paragraph to an
actual proposal tabled by an
actual Administrator, this utter bullshit.....
I think we can assume that almost nobody took real offence at Fram's posts which were the stated reason for the ban, otherwise they would have ended up at ANI or ArbCom, so it's likely that most folks on enwiki would have viewed the "fuck ArbCom" post as a bit of venting following a badly worded message from ArbCom. Fram is a highly valued, long term editor and admin, and despite any differences we've had, I fully believe they have the best interests of the encyclopedia at heart, and don't think we should be losing their contributions for a year over a trivial matter. So it's quite understandable that most of us feel outraged at the ban imposed.
......would not look remotely out of place if I just replaced RexxS' name with Opabina Regalis'. Both have a pretty darn loose relationship with the facts, an unnerving ability to just make shit up and use their fantasy land narratives to properly derail time poor Wikipedia volunteers from the already difficult task of figuring out what to do (Fram was categorically not banned for a single angry post to ArbCom, that was clearly just the last straw). One thing connects these two people, the male and female variant of the highly trusted but extremely bad Wikipedian - zero morals. These people aren't stupid, they know they're telling lies, they just know nobody will stop them, penis or no penis.
Wikipediocracy doesn't talk about any of this shit, because for them it would be tantamount to admitting you fuck your cousin. They're up to their eyeballs in the sewer, an integral part of it. This is the reality of Wikipedia that most of them helped bring about, either directly, through action, or indirectly, through cowardice.
The executive power lost control of the volunteer English Wikipedia community a very very long time ago. Some might say it all started with Bishonen, a woman, expressing her OUTRAGE that Jimmy Wales, a man, dared to tell her how she should conduct herself. Fast forward to people like Jess Wade, who only seem to know one thing about Wikipedia these days, this toxic idea that anything bad that happens to you is because of all the penis. This sort of activist driven victimhood is all that the ramblings of Gender Desk has brought about. No wonder then that Wikipedia and Wikipediocracy are obsessed with the idea Fram has been taken out by a woman "victim".
Recent history time. Women are on the Wikipedia Arbitration Committee now, not a fifty fifty split, but enough to make a difference. When handed a golden opportunity to investigate if Jess really was being victimised in the Rama case, if she really was being subject to a sexist campaign to keep her down, they passed. Opabina, she was the sole Arbitrator to actually refuse to even hear a Case about any of it. Neither Katie or PMC wanted to expand the scope to examine Jess' lived experience, or fantasy recollections thereof. The same women passed on the opportunity to examine Fram's conduct in the GiantSnowman case. Opabina, Katie and PMC all flatly refused to even acknowledge Fram's conduct on the record. Quite where Gorilla Warfare is in all this, I do not know, but I have long suspected she often reaches the point where she's just tired of being the only person on the Committee talking sense, and just checks out, focusing instead on her real life career. Can't blame her at all. That's the real institutional sexism of Wikipedia.
If the truth of this Fram matter is the WMF stepping in when community governance has failed to course correct a problem user, an aggressive and abusive Administrator, then whatever you do, however quick your write up, don't pretend like the women of Wikipedia weren't a big part of the reason why they took control, nor obscure the fact Bishonen and her underlings are leading the charge to rebuff it.
The WMF can change nothing, absolutely nothing, this shit is as baked in today as it was the years ago. Jess Wade is symptomatic of how the business model is going to be protected. PR. Set up a parallel cult within a cult where women are instantly believed and protected solely because they are women. They happily work away on bullshit content and recruitment goals that generates good PR but whose success is only measured in anything but the crudest terms (moarr=good), entirely absenting themselves from the great community dramas like this. They talk about the content, not the community, except to throw wild accusations as a transparent attempt to play to the ignorant gallery in the Twitterverse and secure further grant funding.
Protecting Jess Wade from scrutiny, pretending like I'm the sexist asshole, is basically a good way to ensure eleven year old girls continue to suffer horrendous abuse for having been lured by Wade into believing they too can change the world, one article at a time.
You don't send innocent people into a war zone. You don't attack the people highlighting the way things really work in the battle space, as duplicitous so called feminists happily descend to the same level of their so called enemies, on the rare occasions they find it convenient to engage them in battle at all.
Bishonen actually wants credit for trying to stop Fram. She said, "I think you need to stop with the personal stuff." He ignored her. She did nothing. The WMF did something, and now she's apoplectic. That's the most powerful women on Wikipedia today. Is this something that the feminists are fine with? If not, hey, you could, y'know, do
something. Four women on the Arbitration Committee. Four. Fram called them incompetent. Hard to disagree with him, given it was their job to course correct him. It's also their job to investigate what Bishonen does. This isn't her first time, wheel warring.
Bishonen vs. The Executive Power, with ArbCom as an irrelevant sideshow. That is, in a nutshell, the real story of Wikipedia governance for the last fifteen years, the backdrop to Wikipedia's toxic culture.
If the feminists can't get ArbCom to be their champion, they can support the WMF here and now. Don't pretend like you're too scared of all the noise to speak up, too afraid of retribution, that's not feminism. They're parking their tanks on your lawn as I speak. Or rather, just rolling them a few miles further into your already rather small enclave that you've worked so hard to build these last few years.
If you want help, listen to me. I'm a feminist. A real one. You won't find me scared of retribution. I
am the retribution.
There are greater issues in play too, greater even than a women's basic dignity, namely the clearly unjust nature of WMF's chosen tools, their deceptive talk of fundamental human rights on the one hand and hiding behind contractual chicanery on the other. But don't you worry, we got that too. The advantages of not being single issue activists like Gender Desk and her new best friends the good folks of Wikipediocracy (she loves them, she hates them, she loves them, on and on it goes). We see it all. Everything covered, no issue left behind.
The Tyranny of Evil Men.
Unashamedly targeting the gender traitors of Wikipedia like Bishonen and the fake-ass feminists like Jess Wade like its 2029, or even 1929. 
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Jesus. Talking about this stuff like she's got a clue. The curse of our times. This truly is
The Age of Wikipedia.HTD.
