User:Gandydancer

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On paid editing: Why disclose COI? Why not just work undercover? Because, as we've seen at the BP article, disclosure of COI is viewed with favor in the Wikipedia community, and is considered a sign of integrity and of being a straight shooter. You can be, as in this instance, a company that has been explicitly found by the U.S. government to "lack business integrity," and you will be defended by Wiki leaders. Coretheapple (talk) 14:20, 27 April 2013 (UTC)

Corporations write our legislation. They control our systems of information. They manage the political theater of electoral politics and impose our educational curriculum. They have turned the judiciary into one of their wholly owned subsidiaries. They have decimated labor unions and other independent mass organizations, as well as having bought off the Democratic Party, which once defended the rights of workers. With the evisceration of piecemeal and incremental reform—the primary role of liberal, democratic institutions—we are left defenseless against corporate power. ~ Chris Hedges

Money is more important for men and $9 an hour is way to much to pay poor people...

I was working on the War on women article where I copied this quote, "You could argue that money is more important for men. I think a guy in their first job, maybe because they expect to be a breadwinner someday, may be a little more money-conscious.", spoken by a Wisconsin state senator who supports Gov. Scott Walker's repeal of a law that protected workers from pay discrimination. His words brought my mind way back to the time that my beloved Aunt Rose, who had never married, retired after spending her entire working life (except for one year) as the city clerk and librarian of a small town in northern Minnesota. When Aunt Rose retired a man was hired to replace her. He started at a higher salary than Aunt Rose retired at because as a "breadwinner", he needed it. He didn't have to take care of the library either--"too distracting" they said.

That one year that Aunt Rose did not spend as the city clerk? She was a teacher that year. Aunt Rose was born with a disability, most likely caused by a stroke as she was being born. As a result she had a slight limp and little use of her left hand. Of course, like most children born with physical impairments, there was little that she was unable to do compared with other children. When she graduated with honors from high school she wanted to go to teacher's college but was unsure because of her disability, so she went and talked to the school principal. He told her that it would not prevent the school from hiring her. So she went to school at the new Duluth teacher's college and went away to South Dakota for her practice teaching. She came home and did teach for a year, but at the end of the school year the principal took her aside and told her that they would not be hiring her for the second year because of "her hand". She protested saying that it had not seemed to prevent her from teaching but the principal persisted saying, "But Rose, we wouldn't want to hurt the children, would we?"--as though seeing her weak hand would somehow damage the children. I get both angry and saddened to tears every time I recall this... Gandydancer (talk) 16:23, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

My Aunt Rose cared for me and my sister after our birth mother, a Duluth college graduate as well, died from a strange disease. Almost nobody has heard of this disease, but Wikipedia knows... Imagine my delight when I typed "sleeping sickness" and was led to the article Encephalitis lethargica. I love my mother and I love Wikipedia for not forgetting her. I feel that I celebrate and honor my mother Julia, my Aunt Rose, and my family heritage when I work on, for instance, the Duluth, Minnesota article. I work on a lot of controversial subjects so I like to work on some articles where I won't need to sometimes spend hours, days, weeks, and even months to make one small edit. Though that said, it took me two years to get my Halloween section into the Rutabaga article! My favorite article is, of course, Gandy dancer. I've mostly written the Yodeling article, Pullman porter and the Blizzard article as well. And then I wrote the article on the tiny little town in Colorado where I grew up and attended a one-room school. And such...articles where you know that nobody is going to bother you and don't much care that hardly anybody reads them either...

I love geology! I added a geology section to the Minnehaha Falls article.

Quote of the day: "Despite the communal ethos, there is a distinct pecking order among Wikipedia editors, based sometimes on seniority and sometimes on sheer dickishness. [http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-11/wikipedia-sandy

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My feedback is I think you should recuse yourself (Gandydancer) from the abortion lead, and JJL as well. Not simply because we disagree, but good faith notwithstanding, you're bad at it. - RoyBoy 18:19, 7 January 2012 (UTC)

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In an audience Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square, the new Pope Francis cited the "special role" of women in the church, which may or may not shore up the cautious hope of some Catholics he will begin to bring the church into this century. What remains to be seen: His response to an appeal by Roy Bourgeois, longtime priest and activist and one of the Church's true if too-rare good guys, to be reinstated into a sacred service where for 45 years he worked to undo "our national sins" - in Vietnam and El Salvador, at the torture-teaching School of the Americas and, in what he called the final "poking (of) the beehive of church patriarchy," in the fight for women's ordination. For this last affront, he was dismissed from the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers after being told he was “causing grave scandal,” though God knows the words scandal and church conjure for most people other sins. Citing his childhood in a segregated Louisiana, Bourgeois says simply that "sexism, like racism, is a sin."

"We justified our prejudice by saying this was “our tradition” and that we were “separate but equal.” During all those years, I cannot remember one white person — not a teacher, parent, priest or student (myself included) — who dared to say, “There is a problem here, and it’s called racism.”

"Where there is injustice, silence is complicity. What I have witnessed is a grave injustice against women, my church and our God, who called both men and women to be priests. I could not be silent. Sexism, like racism, is a sin. And no matter how hard we may try to justify discrimination against others, in the end, it is not the way of a loving God who created everyone of equal worth and dignity."