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CAS1
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This long-time member would be more sanguine about a rebrand if MD hadn’t  increasingly ignored comments/requests by women customers about specific products of late. Here’s a hint— if you want this site under any name to grow its base, don’t take loyal users for granted. If you offer a men’s wearable or equipment line, offer the women’s. And when scores of members request a women’s version of a high-volume drop, over several months, for freak’s sake have the common business sense, if not the courtesy,  to at least reply.   You’ve already lost me, but you might hang on to some of the other gals, plus the guys who care about—and shop with—us. 
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Apr 30, 2019
BonafideStella
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CAS1yes
Apr 30, 2019
Duncan
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CAS1Totally get the frustration. We actually renamed the "Men's" Communities to be gender-agnostic specifically because of this. It's something we've wanted to change for a while and now we're getting closer. It's our effort as a part of this rebrand to cater more specifically for women.
Apr 30, 2019
Cardamomtea
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CAS1A thousand times YES!
Apr 30, 2019
RayF
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DuncanGender specific women, or gender agnostic women? As if buying women’s underwear wasn’t already complicated enough!
Apr 30, 2019
Cardamomtea
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RayFGender neutral underwear.,.. now there's a business! Hahaha.....
Apr 30, 2019
RayF
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CardamomteaHope that would automatically rule out thongs!
Apr 30, 2019
eponymous
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May 2, 2019
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DuncanAre you actually carrying more feminine clothes, though? Like, I'm pretty GNC, so I'm perfectly happy to shop "men's" clothes, but that doesn't apply to most women, and I've never seen any clothing or accessories here that were anything but explicitly masculine and designed to fit cis men's bodies. Just because the section is called "Apparel" now doesn't mean it's actually gender-agnostic.
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May 2, 2019
Duncan
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May 2, 2019
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eponymousYou'd be correct, actually. Changing the name was only the first step. Now, as time goes on, we'll be aiming to broaden the category when it comes to merchandising and discussion.
May 2, 2019
eponymous
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May 2, 2019
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DuncanHow many women are involved on staff and in community support roles? Because I don't remember seeing uhhhh a single one, ever. Maybe there are a bunch and I've just not noticed, but if not, getting more women on the team (especially women of color) should be the first step, before any meaningless cosmetic changes. 'Cause a bunch of dudes trying to figure out "what women want" to make money off us while not actually hiring any women is not a great look, and communities moderated primarily by men inevitably tend toward tolerance of misogynistic attitudes (however subtle and invisible to those men) that can drive away women customers.
May 2, 2019
Duncan
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eponymousWe hire alot of women in general actually across the board, but our community support, at least as far as people getting out there and talking to people on the site in discussions like this as I do, is still pretty small, though we try our best. I sincerely hope you've never felt any disdain, misogyny, or any kind of those attitudes here as that's something we would never tolerate and if you ever do, you should tag me immediately. We have a lot of great women at the company on all of our teams so I can promise you we're not just a bunch of dudes. I don't think we'd have as much success if we were to be honest.
May 2, 2019
Jaytal
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May 2, 2019
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eponymousI guess you haven't even looked at their site "About us" page. Lots of token minorities/women there. I hope you're being satirical.
May 2, 2019
eponymous
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Duncan"I sincerely hope you've never felt any disdain, misogyny, or any kind of those attitudes here as that's something we would never tolerate and if you ever do, you should tag me immediately." This is a great example of what I'm talking about. You clearly mean well, but I can't imagine a woman ever saying this to another woman, because experience has taught us that this kind of stuff is inevitable in any online community where a majority of the vocal userbase is men. Massdrop certainly doesn't seem to tolerate any blatantly obvious misogyny (or racism, homophobia, etc.), which is great, but you're still going to run across the more "casual" stuff, microaggressions, etc. There's another comment thread on this post that you and I both replied to where a few men were responding negatively to how women were included in the namechange announcement video:
  • "..because attractive women everywhere enjoy collecting knives"
  • "You, [thread OP], and I all know knives, keyboards, and audio are all some 90% male hobbies at the high end put forward on this site, and yet all three of them are represented by women in your promotion?"
  • "And I notice they chose not to use an attractive female to advertise their women's underwear products. Was hoping MD would take that community in the direction of Victorias Secret"
None of this is blatantly misogynistic, nor particularly actionable from a moderation standpoint unless you want to get really aggressive about it. But these comments are all rooted in misogyny, from framing the mere presence of women as pandering to referring to women as "females."
May 2, 2019
eponymous
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May 2, 2019
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Jaytal@Duncan Ah, good, another example just dropped into our laps: Referring to the employees who are women and/or people of color as "tokens," who are presumably there to appease "special interests" versus being the best people qualified, while the white men clearly earned their jobs. Lmaoooooo.
May 2, 2019
Duncan
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May 2, 2019
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eponymousYeah, I see what you mean. Though we're always improving our moderation as we go forward, I'll be noting this behavior more specifically. Really want to do everything I can to make sure this is a place for everyone, and that the things that we condone on the site reflect that. I appreciate you sharing all of this.
May 2, 2019
eponymous
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DuncanYou betcha. I've done more than my fair share of online moderation, so I know it can be a real slog at times.
May 2, 2019
RayF
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May 3, 2019
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eponymousWell I'm certainly outraged, even if you're not!
May 3, 2019
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