• Cryophilia@lemmy.worldOP
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      6 months ago

      Ok I get it there’s very few women on lemmy, but maybe we should be encouraging more to join/participate instead of keeping it as a kind of toxic boys-only club?

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        6 months ago

        I think there are definitely less women than men but probably more women than it seems like.

        I know I don’t mention I’m a woman unless it’s relevant, like this post. Sometimes, I’ll even purposefully use vague language or gender-neutral terms because I don’t want to get condescending interactions or feel like I have to be a perfect representation of a woman in order to dispel stereotypes.

        E.g. Although I love technology and tinker with a home lab and small Arduino projects, I’m not about to look like an absolute CS genius if someone feels like confirming a bias they have about women and CS skills.

        AKA “You like baseball?? Name every player on the Cubs twenty years ago then.”