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.
Same thing I said on Reddit:
Look at me.
Everyone here is wrong, that's why they lose communities.
Kick that shit in the teeth.
Doesn't matter if they kick you out, you are better off outside. Right at exactly this moment is when you literally need to take a harsh stand against that entryism. Do not just say, "eh, I don't know" say "Fuck you. This is a clear attempt to subvert this group, balkanize this group, and take power from the chaos that you will have sewn. It is literally the only direction this will goal, and I have a moral imperative to shove it in your face."
"You're a liar. You don't know the diversity of this community, you're just an ignorant bigot espousing Leftist racialist talking points, and hoping that attempting to divide the group by racial stereotypes is something that no one will notice. Fuck off."
"Again, you're a liar. This community is open. The fact that you are pushing 'diversity' already shows that you are utterly fucking intolerant towards ideas non-racialist ideas. You don't speak for anyone but yourself. We will not be a growing community by being radical Leftists pushing racialism."
"Again, you're a liar. You believe that women will only tolerate certain sexist and racist viewpoints because you see them as a political collective and nothing more. The problem is that women are human and as such are diverse in and among themselves. You don't speak for women, you do not get to say what is or is not friendly to them. There is no need to force women into a community because you hate the community as it is. You're free to fucking leave."
"Again, you do not speak for women. You're a liar and a sexist. Women are not a homogeneous political collective that you get to speak on behalf of as the final arbiter of gender. If you hate how boring this community is, that's your problem, not women's problem. Feel free to gtfo."
You need to start an argument over this because if you don't, the radicals will keep pushing at every available opportunity. They will not stop until either you or the community is dead.
Stand and fight, the worst they can do is push you out. If you leave without a fight, you just handed them ground and authority to say "HARUMPF! TAKE ALL THE OTHER SEXISTS INCELS WITH YOU" and it will be a victory.
If you stand and fight, it will garner attention, and it will attract other resistors. Even if you lose, you're still better off having fought in the first place, and you'll have networked with people who will have fought.
Leftism is a philosophy of War. If you withdraw from the battlefield, it is a loss. If you stand and fight, then you will take casualties, but at least you have a chance to win. If it is possible, while they are slow to deploy, attack aggressively. Kick that shit directly in the face. Explain to people what this is, how this works, and how the chain of events inevitably goes, and why it needs to be actively resisted. Again, the most damage is done after the Left gains power, not before. Fight hard early and upfront, and you'll be better off.