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You can be adjacent to the special interest and have a genuine, good faith interest in the discussion, and in the interest of inclusivity, should not be turned
by kingkongjaffa 6y ago
You can be adjacent to the special interest and have a genuine, good faith interest in the discussion, and in the interest of inclusivity, should not be turned away.
Maybe you’re role is to listen more than share your own experiences, but you shouldn’t be turned away.
- mft_ 6y agoI totally get why it 'feels' wrong - but what I'm trying to establish is what precisely makes it wrong. I mean, people hold private meetings with a specific list of invitees all the time around the world, and we don't police peoples' private reasons for who they choose to invite. To take another example: support groups for women coming out of abusive relationships. Very good reasons to not allow men to attend, no?
- thesuperbigfrog 6y ago>> To take another example: support groups for women coming out of abusive relationships. Very good reasons to not allow men to attend, no? So women cannot be in abusive relationships with other women? Are all men abusers? Edit: Downvotes? So allies are not possible? Is everyone in a given group summarily guilty because of their identity?
- jtbayly 6y agoGood Q. In point of fact, people might be interested in looking up the percent of lesbian relationships that are abusive and compare to other relationship types.
- luckylion 6y ago> people hold private meetings with a specific list of invitees all the time They're not private meetings, they're public policy meetings. And yes, in Europe, you couldn't even do this on a commercial level (which is more "private" than a political meeting). You can't go "sorry, only people with this skin color are allowed to enter".