That's where most us are disagreeing.  we think the women who are the 
volunteers, are just as intelligent and capable as everyone else.  :-)  
There is no evidence at all, that anyone is ignoring the past history of 
voulnteer support.

Although there is quite a lot of evidence that the women setting up this 
organisation, are not turning to women who have done the work in other 
orgs, and sharing the collective wisdom, as they are being fed up 
labelled as young, naive and too inexperienced to know what they've 
gotten themselves into.

Cassandra's curse, was not that she understood the future, but that no 
one would listen to her.

Morgan Gallagher

On 24/11/2010 09:52, heather wrote:
Morgan Gallagher wrote:
>> Totally.
>>
>> And , for one, am tired of being told that women are too 
>> stupid/naive/inexperienced to know/understand/mediate the risks.
>
>
> I don't think women are stupid - I do think volunteers are sometimes 
> inexperienced and unaware of the risks and in extreme cases, when the 
> risks materialise into actual undesirable phenomena, I don't think it 
> should be the individual's sole responsibility to fix things. That's 
> the job of her colleagues in the organisation she is volunteering with.

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