The name of this room is Women and girls, so why are men able to see it and post in it? I know nothing on the internet is really private and that anybody can create a profile, but can't we have at least an illusion of privacy? I'm surprised that NAS has a room called Women and girls which is public, why bother with it at all?
Personally I would like a female only space, men could have a men only space too. I've just known to many men who get their jollies reading about things like periods.
Thanks Bunny, but I don't do face book
Personally I would like a female only space
there are some things I feel more comfortable talking about in a female only space
You might like to consider also joining the Facebook group here:
Facebook - UK Autistic Women’s Support Group
Group description:
"This is a group for women who have been diagnosed or are waiting to be diagnosed, also includes self-diagnosed with autism/Aspergers. This group is for UK women. We are accepting of non binary and genderfluid autistics. We are trans inclusive."
If they wish, group members can write their posts and comments anonymously, with only the group's admins being able to see their identity.
The group has around 10,000 members and is active on a daily basis.
I'm unlucky enough to work in IT, I can clear a bar, send a whole room to sleep or empty a party simply by starting to talk about my job. 
I didn't realise there was a difference between chat rooms and what we have on here, but then you could probably inscribe what I know about computers and computing on thumb nail and have room to spare, lol
Its best to see them more as "categories" than "rooms" given they're all open. They're not like chat rooms of the old days where they were separate entities. Most forum software just assigns a category or type to allow people to find relevant content and filter it from a single view, rather than to segregate areas off.
I look at most recently posted too, having seperate rooms here seems a bit odd, I mostly post in misc and chat, or sometimes adults, I don't go to the different rooms either.
It's worth knowing that all new posts appear in the same list in "recent posts and activity " regardless of which sub topic they're posted in, hence why I saw this one too, I just look there as it's easier, I never go into specific topic sections.
Because we don't live in a world where things like gender and sexual orientation don't matter.
Because we do live in a world where men being able to see somethings, enter some places is a problem.
Mostly I'm just asking what people think of having a room thats called Women and girls, thats not exclusively theres because its open to all?
I think cisgender is often used in a derogatory way.
Cisgender is a description just the same as Transgender, or Neurotypical compared to Neurodivergent, Disability, and any of those terms can be used in a harmful way but they in themselves are not negative.
I really hate the term cisgender, it seems to be a semi insult to those of us who choose to remain the gender we were asigned at birth. The way that it's increasingly being written about seem presume ignorance that we can change our gender and that we must all be anti trans. I know and have been taught by trans people, I don't actually have a problem with trans people, it must be awful to have been born into a body that dosen't fit. One of my school friends has a long clitoris when she was born and her parents were told she was a boy, then they found out she was a girl and all thw questions and ignorance came out, this was 1962, a time when many parents who's babies sex counldn't be determined were told to bring the child up as their preferred gender, so much trauma came out of this. All this was before we could look into a persons biology and prove that there more than an X and Y chromasome, there are so many variations and thats just on a physical level, on a spiritual one it must be horrible as theres even more prejudice to overcome.
I wish we could get to a state of being where we didn't have to pigeon hole ourselves and others where we could just be people. To be honest what someones gender or orientation or whatever tends to right over my head, it dosen't bother me most of the time, but there are some occaisions when it does and I'd like the respect afforded to me that I do my best to afford to everyone else.
I never post anything online that I don't want in the public domain, I might be old and autistic, but I'm not stupid, lol
I understood the ‘Women and girls’ section to be for the benefit of those who are searching for posts about things peculiar to women and girls, eg, pregnancy, periods, menopause, clothes. A woman might want to post about themselves or a daughter under 18 years old and the space might attract those who are interested in women’s issues.
can't we have at least an illusion of privacy?
I don’t want an illusion of privacy. I want to know the actuality of the forum in which I participate.
Why would it be a good idea for the forum to be designed to deceive the user? Transparency is essential.
Hiya, while I can see why you'd want that space and I completely agree that a women only space would useful for many reasons, I do feel it's helpful for men to understand the struggles women face and raise a bit of awareness around women's issues, safety, equality etc.
Honestly not wanting to invalidate. These are just my own thoughts. I agree with your point and safety/privacy should be provided.
