@user170039 I can also exercise my own judgement call. If I weren't a moderator, I would have certainly flagged, downvoted, and voted to delete.

If I recall correctly, it was also flagged about the same time I saw it, if that puts your mind to rest.

@user170039 Hence "would".

Moderators are not meant to only react flags. They are also meant to take proactive steps in deleting posts that are otherwise useless.

Yes, a lot of it is preferably left for the community, but some things are just... well, useless.

So, is MSE ready for a code of conduct requiring, among many other things, welcoming and respecting users fully, regardless of their gender? I think the mods on this site need some "diversity training", and such a discussion on the topic should then proceed on meta.

Will some courageous moderator actually step up to the plate and take a stance against the ongoing presumption that unless a user posts a post with feminine first name, they must therefore be a guy, a man, a male? I'd love for this site to help welcome and encourage women as well as men, in their mathematical pursuits. I find the fact that for the past 8 years, women often feel the need to create usernames from which gender can not accurately be assigned.

@amWhy I agree that it's always good to make sure that the site is welcoming, and we should all do our best to accommodate that. However, get riled up over a remark I made about an Israeli politician and Hebrew grammar is borderline ridiculous. If I've somehow made you feel disparaged, I'm sorry, that was not the intention of my remarks. But comparing this to religious female genital mutilation is offensive to me.

@AsafKaragila Get over it, @Asaf. You're not powerful enough to rile me up about the issue of gender. Been there, experienced that. Time and time again. And I'm always the one told to not be too sensitive,

@amWhy Let me remind you, if you will, that there is a very large number of users on this site whose native tongue is not English, who do not live in America, and are not used to the modern linguistic movements. There are plenty of languages, Hebrew included, whose gender default is masculine. I'd appreciate some openness to other cultures.

@amWhy I'm not trying to rile you up. So your reply is out of place.

Why should respecting "different cultures" have precedence over respecting "different genders"?

Slightly over half the world's population is female. There is no one culture comprising anywhere close to half the population. We insist English be spoken on this site. How is that any different than articulating a code of conduct that expects users not assume or preference male users over female users, all other things being equal?

@amWhy So you're saying that all users who are not native English speakers should try even harder to speak English, and forget their native tongue? to ignore the way they spoke their entire life? That sounds ridiculous, colonialist, and by all means silly.

@AsafKaragila Don't put words in my mouth, @Asaf. It seems to me you are intentionally trying to defend, protect, enable misogyny. In that spirit, How dare this site require folks to use English!!! That's ridiculous, colonialist, and by all means silly.

@amWhy It seems to me that you're trying to label things as misogyny, even if they're not. And I take offense of that.

@amWhy You can also appreciate the efforts that all those people are making, to speak in your native tongue.

I wasn't given a choice. I was born into a world where I have to learn at least one other language.

:46250394I Again: DO NOT PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH. I was also born into a world where I had to learn at least one other language. English is NOT my native tongue. You presume far too much (and too little) about women, about me and my culture, and seem to want to make me the villain. I'll leave from here. I hope in the future, we have un-provoking mods continue to hang out here: like quid, and @DanielFischer, perhaps even @MichaelGreinecker.

And another likely un-provoking moderator is @AloizioMacedo :)