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2026-04-06 12:41 UTC
@olivia cryptogyny is an interesting word! is there a similarly pithy name for the process of pushing women out?
you mention great man theorizing, whereby popular retellings obscure or reattribute contributions to the target of the story; i had an experience this weekend that made me think of other emergent behaviour…
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@phillmv@hachyderm.io 2026-04-06 12:51
@olivia (bear with me here) at queer dance parties i’ve been to, gay guys like to dance near other gay guys, and once a critical mass forms they exert a gravitational pull that draws in more gay guys like a horny black hole but in trying to be near men in the process they push out the women, who don’t tend to like to rub up against each other in quite the same way so women often end up relegated to the back of the dancefloor, to say nothing how there’s fewer of us at events in general