love whilst I appreciate your message, I don't think we can ask anyone to 'stay' in the environment.
And it pisses me off that I refer to this 'environment' right now.
On a board called 'women's rights'feminism chat' within a wider business model and boards based on championing the issues, the questions, the community that females have sought out and have helped to build here over the years.
Because I absolutely know some of the people who are pushing hard, displaying bullying behaviour, revelling in the mangling of language, the tying up in knots that women are doing in this space to stay, under the eye of MNHQ's vague guidelines, will be getting off on this.
They will be getting off on the absence of some, the departures, the stress of others.
And that's not supposition - as so many people have highlighted here, not by 'hysteria' or anecdote, but pointing to evidence, we know there are many people within the 'umbrella' definition, who will do so. And many of us have experienced those types of people in real life.
The toll it takes to keep debating, rationally, calmly - and I don't know any of the real lives of those who have kept this subject alive when lots of us were unaware.
Who have experienced similar abusive, gaslighting, relentless behaviour in their real lives too.
All I can say is thank you to those who contributed in the past to grow our awareness.
Thank you, especially if it came at emotional or personal cost to you.
I suspect you have opened many of our eyes here to the issues so, even if it's enough for you here and you leave, there are lots of others to keep spreading the word.