Post #2779758
2026-02-09 07:08 UTC
>*"Here's the thing. No reasonable person has an issue with women having their own women's activity groups. The annoying part is that whenever men try to do something similar, that's a problem. Women either want them banished or demand entry, EVERY time."*
My rpg club took the *incdusivity road* in the 2010, and is now a very inclusive/diverse place. We do have the blue haired enbies that riqht winger hate, and some old players who after acouple of beer starts complaining about RPG becoming *woke* (An inclusive place means they're welcome too)
We do have a couple of women only group and a point someone launched a men only table. While we had one of the *old player* complaining about the women only game, no *blue haired enby* complained about the men only game.
So I have the impression that this whole *women only space are OK, men only space aren't* is some bullshit.
Note that, this worked becaused the *gender specific game* include people identifying as this gender, are the exception, and have a justification. It's not *I don't like wo•man so I want only a gender* but * I want a game exploring masculinity/feminity and therefore will limit the cast gender*
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@sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-02-09 12:18
This is dancing around the Karl Popper paradox of tolerance, but it sounds like your RPG club would draw the line somewhere and kick out someone acting blatantly disrrspectful. It sounds like in this specific case, men wanting a male only group would be in a minority, so it makes sense that women and non binary folx wouldn't feel disturbed by that. Vs. a men-only bar that all the business people go to or something, where exclusion would be the group in power enforcing their power.
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@YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2026-02-09 08:08
That last sentence hits pretty hard. Like why would anyone want to be involved with something they don't understand and/or care about?