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by zkirill 4290 days ago
This is great! Best of luck. Can men help and, if so, in what ways?
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Thanks! Right now this product is just for women. We really want to make a safe place for women to self publish via our content platform and post anonymous questions on our forums amongst a strictly female audience in the hopes to narrow troll behavior. We're even targeting our beta communities based on industry so we can test the mentor matching product in more concentrated subgroups. Audiences and products always have the possibility of change though. For now please just tell your female friends and colleagues to sign up and we'll be sure to connect them with some amazing local women with shared career passions.
> a strictly female audience in the hopes to narrow troll behavior

Be interesting to see if it works.

One of these trolls making threats of sexual violence was a woman: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/10595669/Twitt...

We have a community moderator and strict guidelines to insure Glassbreakers is a safe place for women. Women.com is also gender gated and thus far, it's been full of really great conversations absent from trolls. Of course, both men and women can be trolls or write threatening things online. However, the vast majority of threats of violence or misogynistic rhetoric in online forums does stem from men. Check out #feminism on quora- total nightmare.