[a sign reads FEMINIST CONFERENCE next to a closed door, a blue character shrugs and says…]
I don’t care
[next to the same door, the sign now says RESTRICTED FEMINIST CONFERENCE WOMEN ONLY, there are now four blue characters desperately banging on the door, one is reduced to tears on the floor, they are shouting]
DISCRIMINATION
SO UNFAIR!!!
LET US IINN!!
MISANDRY
There’s a lemmy community called womenstuff or something like that and as the name implies is for women and only women should comment and post. Sometimes a man will comment and post and they have to be told that the comrunithy is for women only.
Lemmy needs private and accesible by invite only communities.
The mods there have said they want women passing by to see it and also anyone else really, just that they ask men please don’t post because it’s a women’s space. It’s pretty hard to be mad about it when everyone there seems so nice, especially the mods.
Nothing about that name indicates that men shouldn’t comment. If it was “womensOnlySpace” then maybe.
Well tbf it is in their sidebar and a mod has to comment in every single fucking post because it’s super easy to not look at the community when reading a post and nobody on mobile is reading a damn sidebar.
I will say at least when a guy wanders in accidentally the mods (not anyone else though) are nice about it, even if I do fundamentally disagree with the concept of their group (I don’t like X-only, like if we had a “men only” comm I’d have the same opinion on it) and the placement of it (on a site without invite only private groups, it should be a Delta Chat group or something instead if you don’t want people wandering in) and also the execution (who knows if I’m a man or a woman unless I say “as a man” in my posts? This is a pseudononymous forum, for all you know I’m three 8yo girls in a trenchcoat with a fake moustache. It seems mostly based on vibes, which is an option I guess) but whatever I can’t stop discriminatory shit when they do it just as I can’t when some dude does it to them, all I can control is not being a discriminatory dickhead myself, it’s on them if they want to be bad people (the royal them/they).