I’ll share a similar thought making a comparison with religious (or atheist) communities.

It makes total sense that a christian community won’t want an “edgelord atheist” talking his point of view on how the christian God was an evolution from an old storm god of Israel.

Or maybe even offering an in-context interpretation of a bible text that goes against the christian narrative [my pet peeve is that David was no “stupid kid” that relied on faith and got a miraculous lucky shot to kill Goliath since David claims to have killed a lion and a bear (in close combat? or with the sling?) But yet, a lot of christians portray David as a weakling that somehow killed Goliath].

In a similar way, an atheist or ex-christian comunity don’t want christians proselytizing there even though ex-christians deeply understand that the proselytizer probably really “cares about the lost souls”. Even then, proselytizing there is a dick move because it is a safe space for people to process their removal from religion outside of a christian group (which will try to pull back in the “lost sheep”).

 

Now, no matter if “you” (reader) are a christian or an atheist, I’m pretty sure that you can agree with at least the idea of christians having a safe space (if you are christian) or atheist having a safe space (if you are atheist/ex-christian).

 

What need to be done is only extrapolating that understanding to the other group.

Then extrapolate that understanding for why woman need an space where they can talk freely among themselves.