<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Al responded perfectly. If there's no stories to tell, there's no article. <br></div><div><br></div><div>If the semantics are truly bothersome to those who would like to share their stories, I'm happy to change the wording of the question, though it won't change the results as I'm asking for qualitative data.</div>
<div><br>On 26 Jan 2014, at 09:17 pm, Al Billings <<a href="mailto:albill@openbuddha.com">albill@openbuddha.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">
Yes, please, a man should tell her how she’s doing it wrong.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto">
She’s collecting stories. If there are no stories to tell, as some of you claim, she’ll get nothing. “Skewing” isn’t the issue here since she isn’t asking “how often does this happen” but, instead, “Tell me about something if it happened to you.”</div>
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Al</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><br></div> <div style="color:gray"><hr style>From: <span style="color:black">Red Davies</span> <a href="mailto:noiddicle@gmail.com">Red Davies</a><br>
Reply: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Date: <span style="color:black">January 26, 2014 at 9:15:48 PM</span><br>
To: <span style="color:black">Hackerspaces General Discussion List</span> <a href="mailto:discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org">discuss@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>Subject: <span style="color:black"> Re: [hackerspaces] Safe Space Policies? <br>
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I feel I need to point something out. Your invitation to that form says "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">If any women in hackerspaces have stories of sexism they'd like to share with me for an article".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">One of your questions in your form is: "</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px;font-weight:bold">Have you had any experiences of sexism, misogyny, harassment, or assault in a hackerspace?</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:19px">Given your invitation I would suggest that you've already skewed your results.</span></div></div></span></blockquote> <div id="bloop_sign_1390799662929934080" class="bloop_sign">
<span style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px"></span>-- <br>Al Billings<br><a href="http://makehacklearn.org">http://makehacklearn.org</a><div><br></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br>
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