Yeah, the sheer domination by numbers of masculine voices - even when they're not trying to argue from a particularly masculine perspective, can just be draining in situations like this. Especially when they're not trying to argue from a particularly masculine perspective, frankly, because it's very hard to get across "I know you're not trying to ignore the value of a slightly different perspective, but..." without making them feel like they need to defend themselves and go on about how we're reading into them things they're not saying, they're not biased, men are capable of being open-minded, there's no single male perspective, etc. All those things are true, and before any of our male allies on this list get upset, I want to acknowledge that...but at the same time, that gender-related invisible knapsack can just sort of steer male-dominated discussions in directions that a more gender-balanced conversation might not swerve, or might not swerve so strongly.

Commons, especially, is just completely dominated by certain viewpoints with regard to sexual images, and Sarah, you get tons of my respect for just attempting to function there, because I certainly can't do it. I might be able to handle an inadvertent boys-zone atmosphere - I hang out on enwp, after all - but my blood pressure just can't handle the level of aggression Commons bring to bear on anyone who dares speak for the deletion of potentially-damaging images.

-Fluff

P.S. On re-reading the threads from my original email, I note that I was wrong about the "100% male" thing - Beria Lima commented twice. So uh, 99.999% male?