So I just discovered c/womensstuff, commented in a thread that took my interest and got a somewhat abusive “eff off” comment from a mod with added sarcasm.

I then saw it’s “women only”. This is the only community I know that bans based on a protected identity of a person, e.g. in the UK, it’s illegal to discriminate based on gender, sexuality, religion etc.

How does everyone feel about this for Lemmy communities?

  • Otter@lemmy.ca
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    11 days ago

    I think it’s reasonable that some communities will want to cater to a specific topic / group of people. If you want to discuss a similar topic, there’s nothing stopping you from posting about it in another community or making your own community/instance.

    If someone doesn’t want to engage with you, it’s silly to try and force them to engage with you.

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      If you want to discuss a similar topic, there’s nothing stopping you from posting about it in another community or making your own community/instance.

      But that’s stupid.

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        Its a tradeoff, it’s discussing things with people that understand you and being protected from outside interference while doing so.

        Then again this creates a bubble which leads usually to radicalization. Which leads to a lack of respect for otherl peoples experience and point of view.

        I wish communities like this would introduce labels to invite outside views or maybe a “male input Monday” or something. Just to stave off the effects of isolation to a specific mindset.

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          Y’all seem to think that those people only exist in one random Lemmy community and never use anything else.

          Women getting too much and too bad male input is literally what leads to women only spaces, not the other way around. And yet they still get male input everywhere else. It’s like thinking going to a Warhammer shop will radicalize you because they don’t play poker there, it’s not even stupid, it’s absurd.

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        You do see the mirror right? Not sure what you expect for a response when your whole stance consists of “that’s stupid.”

        If its worth anything you seem so dense that you got me to block you so I dont have to see content from a pissy cunt bitching about a community for women being a community for women. Your social worker can prolly point you in the direction of communities for retards… I think they call them group homes.

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          11 days ago

          You’re going to make an amazing, beautiful mother.

          Your vitriol makes you sound really bitter and hateful towards men. Groups like what I’m talking about strengthen your existing sexist opinions and make them more extreme, and in your mind, this hatred becomes normalised that you post things like the above.

          You have just proven why exclusive groups like this are bad for communities.

          (Though the entire response reads very gen-AI-ish)