Subgroups based on gender or ethnicity serve, both historically and currently, a wide variety of purposes for the participants who feel marginalized. Let me gue

Subgroups based on gender or ethnicity serve, both historically and currently, a wide variety of purposes for the participants who feel marginalized. Let me guess, you aren't a woman. How would you know if you felt discouraged from attending as a woman or not? Even if you don't believe in specific benefits for minorities, I'm sure you can accept that a simply smaller group may be more welcoming, especially to new people. The real question is, why do you feel it necessary to police what other people do? If this was a beginner's group, or an East Bay Group, would you have a big issue with it? If not, you probably want to check your privilege. It sounds like .4 percent of the SF Go meetup is female, one person. That is kinda sad, and it seems to me working to try to improve the community by explicitly seeking to foster additional interest in Go is exactly the sort of thing that should be applauded. This group has 12 people interested, which sounds like 11 more than would have showed up at GoSF.