On Friday, 25 March 2016 at 10:09:36 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Well, online one can engineer societies, if one are willing to
spend the investments, but men are not the problem. Women are
just as dysfunctional as men are, and both men and women
experience gender-related discrimination in different fields
(custody cases come to mind).
Totally agreed.
I'll even say that the in-your-face bluntness-agression is
preferably to silent aggression/freezing out, because bluntness
can be addressed and corrected more easily. Hopefully we don't
have a big freezing out problem (but how can you tell?). We do
have the occasional bluntness problem.
Shit happens, ability to deal with it is important so IMO it's
not a problem.
But let me ask you this question instead: would you expect the
average man to feel inclined to join an all-female online
community? I wouldn't. Just turn the gender around and ask the
same question again: would you expect the average woman to feel
inclined to join an all-male online community?
Clearly, you need to think about how you grow your online
community if you want to create openings either way.
Well, I don't have to speculate about that because I've seen
communities specifically declared as male/female in their name
and every one of them included people of both genders.
I personally wouldn't join a community which was solely defined
as a space for the other sex - but that's because I wouldn't find
things of interest to me. But that's not the case for programming
forums. We are here because we use the programming language,
gender is just incidental.
