I'm just here for the bruised male egos.

[track_shovel@slrpnk.net]

I'm just here for the bruised male egos.
I'm male, and I find the but what do you mean I'm not welcome there comments entertaining.

I'm with you, OP: they shouldn't have to restrict their visibility to avoid a demographic they don't want to have in their community. Women should have a space to talk to women only, if they so desire. Those complaining about it need to realize that places where men are not welcome exist in the real world, and yet there aren't a bunch of dudes protesting to be allowed into a women's change room at the Rec center.

E: Ha, go ahead and downvote me, you dorrito munching TaterTots. Maybe doing so will make you fill your jar with a Rainbow Dash mini faster

[lefrog@discuss.tchncs.de]

Its like attending a big fair and there are thousands of open stages for public discussions. Each stage hosts one of many different topics. A single one (!) of these stages is "female-speakers only". And these neckbeards are throwing a tantrum that this single stage is a safe space for women.

As a straight white cis-man I feel ashamed when seeing other men acting like this.

[badabinski@kbin.earth]

Fucking exactly. Like, I blocked the community because I almost posted there several times without realizing. I didn't want to make extra work for the mods there, so I hit the block button. That's it, that's all it takes. The community should be public so women can easily find it. Blocking a community isn't an inherently negative thing, you should block stuff that isn't relevant to you. If you're good at remembering that you shouldn't post there and like to read the posts, then don't block it.

Would people be as upset if it was a community for gay men? I obviously can't know, but I don't think there'd be this much furor. Why is this so emotionally challenging for some people to accept? I can guess, but I won't do so here.

[loudwhisper@infosec.pub]

It's more like that stage only allows women participants. But the stage example doesn't work well because a forum is not a stage.

Either way, I take issue with the idea that a male participation makes a space inherently unsafe.
You didn't say it explicitly, but you kinda implied it.

I think this is not only false, but it's divisive and it's a terrible narrative to build that harms cohesion in the face of class struggle.

[upperbroccoli@feddit.org]

they don’t want to have in their community

That's not even the case, they just don't want us to participate actively.