IMO, I don't Alcinus is pressing an administrative point. Isn't there another man on this site who sees this issue from his point of view? Isn't it possible to see it his way without being considered angry or hostile or withholding towards women (or men, in all-women forum)? I think he is just asking, WHY, if you set up an all-male forum, why must we allow the women to peek, so to speak? Why must they have their say? I'm just thinking out loud here. Why isn't it recognized that women may also be perpetrators, so that in the one safe place you THINK you have, here comes this XX chromosome sticking her nose in, when the WHOLE rest of the playground is hers, she has to peek into YOUR corner. How is that even close to fair? I've gotten messages from moderators telling me to take care of my own self-care, but when it feels like it's in your face like this, when you THOUGHT you were in a safe place, when there is PLENTY of room for other people to have THEIR stuff, and you only have THIS ONE LITTLE SPOT???

So I think that is what Alcinus is saying is the SPIRIT of the law, not the LETTER of the law. And doesn't anyone else beside ME get that? Or can you enlighten me or us as to why - well, not why we SHOULDN'T feel this way, CAN'T SAY THAT, WOULDN'T BE PRUDENT - but then, what do you see as our alternatives? You set up a safe spot, then you plant land mines, and we're supposed to be okay with that? That's how it feels to me.