Hey all! A male supporter has offered to open a community called WomensStuffSupporters that all genders can reply to. That gives men somewhere to show support that isn’t here and also make here easier to moderate.

There’s the option to X post from one to another, which is wouldn’t want to happen automatically as some people wouldn’t like that.

What do you all think of the idea? I’ll leave this post up for a while before a decision is made.

Edit: you can message me if you don’t want to say publicly. I won’t let people know you contacted me, I’d just potentially say someone messaged saying they did/didn’t want it

  • razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    There was a thread in another community where a lot of users expressed their disappointment that a public community wouldn’t allow men to post/comment in it. To me it doesn’t make sense to fixate on the one community that you can’t participate in when there are plenty of others that are open to everyone. I wouldn’t insist to be allowed into a men’s only community even if I did read the posts from it that showed up on my feed.

    I come here because it’s chill and there are topics I can relate to, not because I want to exclude anyone.

    That being said, anyone is free to form whatever community they want, including the one you described. As for the crossposting: I treat posting anything online publicly as accepting the risk it will be shared somewhere else.

    • ZDL@lazysoci.al
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      10 hours ago

      To me it doesn’t make sense to fixate on the one community that you can’t participate in when there are plenty of others that are open to everyone.

      The crime, to the male view (including a shocking percentage of “allies”) lies in not wanting to hear the “pearls of wisdom” that men “inevitably” bring to conversations. And honestly, in the case of said “allies”, it’s not even really their fault. They’ve been brought up believing that men’s opinions have intrinsic value and must be expressed. That’s what patriarchy is in a nutshell, and men are just as much victims of it as women are.

    • Many men are used to being allowed everywhere on the internet, they were raised with the privilege to expect this and so cannot stand it at all when they are not allowed because to them it is the default.

      Things like “there are no women on the internet” whilst said maybe light-heartedly is still believed by many, or it is the state of affairs they wish to be accurate, that or that most women online exist only for them.