Females in the community.

[QAston via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 March 2016 at 03:20:01 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I'm pretty sure Qaston was being sarcastic.

Indeed I was. It was difficult to not mock contempt for lesser 
people in that post.

On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 20:57:22 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> Maybe or maybe not, but meta discussions are important for 
> changing norms within a forum. If a given tone means that some 
> women hesitate to join in, it probably also means that a group 
> of men also hestitate to join in. Adjusting the tone might mean 
> that more people will participate which would be better for all.
[...]
> The thread itself strengthened Karabuta's core message, didn't 
> it? :-)
>
> Unfortunately, I am not sure if there are anyone in the D 
> community that would make a good objective moderator, so I am 
> not sure exactly how it can be fixed other than these 
> occasional "storming" threads that end with an appeal to 
> self-moderation.
>
> I find the Donald Trump phenomena to be an unpleasant reminder 
> that there are certain aspects of our male culture that we men 
> need to address both in ourselves and in others. I somehow 
> doubt that a woman could act the same way as Trump does and get 
> a 40% approval rating for it.

I don't want to walk on eggshels. Incidents happen sometimes on 
this forum (as well as everywhere - we're just people) but they 
get resolved. The forum self-regulates because it's not yet a 
circle jerk, and people being critical of others is one of the 
reasons for that. Karabuta apparently can handle criticism - good 
for him - the more people like that the better.

It's funny how society "helps" women. Some crazy entitled women 
declare "manspreading" an issue. Good daddy - state - intervenes 
and bans sitting the wrong way [1]. It's not like women are 
adults and can ask a person to move, they're delicate flowers who 
need protection from state in cases of SLIGHTEST first world 
inconveniences. Entitlement intensifies - now cat-calling is a 
problem women can't deal with [2]. Now doctor can't tell a fat 
woman that her lifestyle is unhealthy - that's fat shaming [3]. 
Colleges are not really an example of intellectually healthy 
environment [4]. There will never be enough placating, but men 
need to step up!

Here's a crazy idea: women can do everything they want. They're 
adults. According to Ola women are better collaborators. So 
they're better capable of adapting to "male forums", that's what 
collaboration is about. I don't think they need strong male 
protective arm to handle internet. And they fart - apparently I 
need to keep reminding people about that.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/11643052/Manspreading-arrests-the-long-arm-of-the-law-just-invaded-our-personal-space.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/391430/why-cat-calling-really-problem-christine-sisto
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/fat-shaming/
http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/11/25/from-megaphones-to-muzzles-free-speech-safe-spaces-and-college-campuses