So I'm a lurker in a hobby group.
Like most technical hobbies there are not a lot of women.
The only person I know that identifies as female is transgender.
Nobody is excluding women. No one is even bringing gender up at all. Half the community could be women and you wouldn't know it because nobody is talking about that stuff. (But since it's a nerdy hobby that requires a lot of technical skill you know it's going to be almost all men.)
There's also no discussion of race. Very few users have ever appeared on camera and it's not like anyone is bringing up their race out of the blue. So we also would have no way of knowing what race 95% of the users are
There's no politics. There's no banter.
Nothing controversial is ever discussed.
It's all perfectly on topic or topic adjacent.
It's 80% technical talk, 10% movies/games/media, and 10% small talk.
Well the community recently ran a survey of users to get a grasp on skill level, tools, interests, and desires of the community and I bet you can see where I'm going with this ...
In the survey results were a whole lot of "suggestions" that are blatant attempts at woke entryism.
(I've got a suspicion they're all from the same person or small group of people.)
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Calls to improve the diversity of the community.
(Where we know almost no-one's race, and no-one cares what anyone else's race is.) -
Calls to make the community more open and inviting.
(It's open to everyone who doesn't act like a jerk. You don't even have to be a skilled builder to participate people are fully welcome to just spectate and chat. It couldn't possibly get more open.) -
Calls to make the community more friendly to women.
(It's not unfriendly to women, or friendly to men. Your gender literally doesn't matter in the community.) -
Calls to start doing more feminine projects and activities to make the community more interesting to women.
(Again, this group is for a very specific, gender irrelevant, hobby. Only way to introduce feminine projects would be to make it about something else.)
I'm not privy to the discussions of the small mod team, but I'm pretty sure someone has already approached them (or will soon) about adding a "female", diversity focused, moderator with power to make changes to the community to improve diversity and appeal to women.
And as we know all too well, that's when things start to go downhill, fast.
It's a meaningless group, why not stand up and say that women's hate speech, of which there is enough to fill an entire library a million times over, will make the group worse.
The only way to make things friendly to women is to introduce cliques where their open hatred can be let out to the detriment of everyone else.
Sigh. Unbelievably I have to side with you again, even if not for the same reason.
There is absolutely no reason not to stand up and fight, particularly in a meaningless group. There is no real loss in gaining the experience that you will need to have when the Leftists come for your job, your home, and your family.
That's actually a really pertinent point: if you can't even defend a meaningless group, how will you defend anything else? Get experience early in a situation where you can try different things without the pressure of losing something important and you'll be better prepared later when you need to win.
It's an old lesson of combat. Training will only take you so far, but you have to build combat experience the hard way, without losing all your men against a strong opponent. Win easy victories.
Otherwise you're that guy who buys a gun, never carries, never trains, and is sure he'll win an engagement when someone genuinely threatens his family.
How are you going to defend your family when their life is on the line if you've never even sighted in your gun, let alone actually done anything under pressure?