I know for a fact that I’m not the only woman who has gone to say something, then deleted it because that element seems strong here.
I’ll say that of the space on lemmy where I’ve seen women’s issues discussed, the place I’ve felt safest about it is blahaj, but I am not gonna try and coopt their space. They really deserve to have a space somewhere. I’m glad they’ve got one here.
In the meantime, most of the women I’ve run into on lemmy feel uncomfortable making waves in the spaces where those people are, but we tend to skew older, so while it’s sad, at least we’re used to keeping quiet.
E; some pretty gross comments in this thread alone. If those negative and ignorant comments were higher than this one, and I saw them first, I wouldn’t have made this comment either.
We need a safe space, but most of the women I know on here don’t have the time or energy to moderate it. And there’s so few of us, it feels like it’s not worth the effort anyway.
I know for a fact that I’m not the only woman who has gone to say something, then deleted it because that element seems strong here.
I’ll say that of the space on lemmy where I’ve seen women’s issues discussed, the place I’ve felt safest about it is blahaj, but I am not gonna try and coopt their space. They really deserve to have a space somewhere. I’m glad they’ve got one here.
In the meantime, most of the women I’ve run into on lemmy feel uncomfortable making waves in the spaces where those people are, but we tend to skew older, so while it’s sad, at least we’re used to keeping quiet.
E; some pretty gross comments in this thread alone. If those negative and ignorant comments were higher than this one, and I saw them first, I wouldn’t have made this comment either.
We need a safe space, but most of the women I know on here don’t have the time or energy to moderate it. And there’s so few of us, it feels like it’s not worth the effort anyway.
I think there are more women than you think. They are leaning for good (avoid harassment) or bad( not talk about things) to be quiet as you mention.
I hope things will improve. Hope all the harassers have lives as unpleasant as they deserve.