This is an inclusive community for all things women. Whether you’re here for make up tips, feminism or just friendly chit chat, we’ve got you covered.

I feel like men can do all of those things, so I don’t see why we are excluding them. Just because it’s a women-centric community doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be allowed. I think we should exclude people who are bigoted instead, or even people who just don’t “get” women’s issues.

Aside: I’m personally irritated that make-up is what’s considered a woman-centric topic. That’s kind of reductive – not everyone is femme.

  • 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@ttrpg.network
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    8 days ago

    Apparently I made assumptions about @jsomae@lemmy.ml that were unwarranted. I’ve done some light editing of this post to correct for this.

    I have a question for men who ask this question:

    Why must you absolutely be here? There are literally thousands of communities on Lemmy and yet you’re offended that one doesn’t want your presence.

    Think carefully about why that is. Think carefully about why you’re choosing to come into the community you’re clearly not welcome in (given the very rules of said community) to whine about how you’re not welcome in it instead of just shrugging and saying “guess that’s not for me”.

    When you realizeIf you ever realize why you just did that, then you’ll also quite magically understand why the community rules are the way they are. I’ll give you a free clue, though, to help you to your realization: your very insistence on asking is why the rule is the way it is.

    I added a sentence and changed a few words in the closing sentence.

    • jsomae@lemmy.mlOP
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      8 days ago

      Well, your response is identical to, for instance, the response given in terf communities I used to peruse. (Relax – I’m a better person now.) The reason I am asking is that I think exclusivity is a bad thing, rather than the absence of a good thing – i.e., the world would be better with fewer exclusive places.

      I’d counter with this – why don’t you want men in the community? And does the answer you give to that apply to every man, or just a subset? I understand, of course, that the easiest way to exclude that subset is to exclude all men, and I wouldn’t want to ask the mod team to do more work for free.