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.
I saw it happen in realtime on a goddamn minecraft server of all place (like 10 years ago when it was still in beta.)
Everyone was working together and getting along, then the server became more popular. Then the owner decided we needed moderators to keep it "family friendly" (no dicks or swastikas mostly). Then one, who some of us suspected was a tranny, was given mod powers because he was there all the time.
Then he became thought police in chat, banning anyone who used the word "gay" to mean something negative and generally powertripping. I told the admin it was bullshit, but the faggot leaned into emotional appeal how saying "this is gay" is the EXACT SAME as tying ryan white to a fence or some such shit. The admin sided with the tranny and I noped out.
I probably should have burned the server down when I left since I had the keys to the castle at the time, but I was tired of arguing which is how they win. They don't have families or jobs so they can needle all day, instantly respond to any posts/messages and generally make themselves heard over anyone who opposes them.