Females in the community.

[QAston via Digitalmars-d]

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.