https://lemmy.nz/post/18610200/13255360

This user describes how most of the women-centered communities on Lemmy were shut down due to harassment of their members.

Another user adds “We need a safe space, but most of the women I know on here don’t have the time or energy to moderate it. And there’s so few of us, it feels like it’s not worth the effort anyway.”

  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    One of my first experiences on Lemmy was a bunch of mens rights activists celebrating a women’s tech job fair being overrun by men.

    I’m not surprised that this is a problem. Lemmy’s main demographic is the tech obsessed, that’s always going to be filled with misogynistic neckbeards.

      • SoftTeeth@lemmy.world
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        You’re a man quipping back on a post about men forcing themselves to women’s spaces.

        I used to think differently, but men who force their way into conversations just to say “not all men” are part of the problem.

        There’s no actual understanding, just correction and dismissal.

        • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.works
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          I’m a woman quipping back to say that if you have the defeatist stance that the “tech obsessed” demographic will “always” be misogynistic, then it will never improve.

    • corsicanguppy
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      the tech obsessed, that’s always going to be filled with misogynistic neckbeards.

      Generalizations are hateful.