I read the email thread. Sarah asks to be polite on mailing list, because there is no feedback, and author can not know how it was taken. Latter she talks about

I read the email thread. Sarah asks to be polite on mailing list, because there is no feedback, and author can not know how it was taken. Latter she talks about karate and beating opponent when he is down. There is really nothing about sexism/racism in there.