@thomholwerda by the way, as much as I know this is completely false, it still kind of stings and makes me feel like I'm in the wrong place. I wish I knew what led them to say that... I guess joining in a male-heavy region and never expanding their follower bubbles?
@thomholwerda also fuck them for giving "dominant" males the impression they can join here and make a masculine-only space, and making potentially interested women feel they will be unwelcome. By characterising a platform as wholly something, especially one as diverse as the fediverse/mastodon, _especially_ with cursory research, you only skew the platform further in that direction. I hope whichever males join here with that intent quickly find themselves ousted and left to fester in their own little unhealthy space.
@thomholwerda also fuck them for giving "dominant" males the impression they can join here and make a masculine-only space, and making potentially interested women feel they will be unwelcome. By characterising a platform as wholly something, especially one as diverse as the fediverse/mastodon, _especially_ with cursory research, you only skew the platform further in that direction. I hope whichever males join here with that intent quickly find themselves ousted and left to fester in their own little...