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Can you please point out a single incidence of *actual* discrimination by the Archive or the OTW? Just one. A single male who's been told he can't use the archive, submit an article to the academic journal, participate in the wiki, join a committee, run for the board -- anything.

Because without that, you are basically arguing that a group has no right to support and advocate for its members, to choose its own constituency as long as it doesn't discriminate against others who agree with its goals... and that is a point of view with which I fundamentally disagree. And it's where your "reverse discrimination" argument falls down. Unless you can point out some actual discrimination.

And no, I don't look at the issue as "Something is men's stuff, something else is women's stuff" -- I look at it as people have the right to associate and have their own viewpoints. The viewpoint that women's fannish activities are often trivialized, ghettoized or ignored is not without evidence to support it, and to create an organization that actively supports women's fannish endeavors doesn't mean that men aren't welcome as well. It just means that women won't be trivialized, ghettoized or ignored.