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by gaandmaraa 4279 days ago
Agreed. It's one thing to say that taking the human-centered approach (making discussions more open and inclusive to all people with a varying depth in knowledge/experience) is what we should ultimately converge to because the entire community benefits from people being more civil and understanding; it's a whole other thing to say feminism is really THE way to converge to this. By virtue of saying this on 4 different occasions in the article, OP's regard of feminist approaches to problem solving comes across as more supercilious than she may have intended.

Here's my simple takeaway. The article could have been a reasonable read if the war story was painted with the context of "oh hey, this is how more discussion and safe spaces helped fix this bug and here's why all of us should do it". What I got instead was "Wow, things/ideas/methods in the community are so broken. Feminism is obviously the only contender to fix this properly, and people who aren't in the feminist camp can't be as effective in reaching these goals. Btw, did I mention that I got groped? And also, everybody who disagreed with me is so clearly anti-feminist"