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So here's the thing.

No space is being taken away. A new space is being created. This space is to give a voice to a population who reports, as a group, being silenced and undermined in other spaces by the dominant group.

This allows voices to be heard that weren't heard before. That's inclusion. Having those voices stay silent is exclusion.

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Thank you. It's really common for the arrival of a women-only (or trans-only, survivors-only etc.) space to be met with alarm from men. On the surface, that's not even a bad reflex to have - identify things that seem exclusive, and try to make them more inclusive.

But what we don't always realize is that the internet isn't terribly inclusive in the first place. There's a prevailing atmosphere in well-populated tech spaces - Reddit, HN - that tends to shut down women's voices, especially if they're talking about an experience that men on the internet can't relate to.

I'm all for this project, hope it works out.

I don't get it. How are these voices going to be heard outside of the echo chamber of the community? For voices to be heard by the broader population, the echo chamber needs to be open and inclusive.

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