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"Similarly, gay men and trans or genderqueer people are often excluded from fandom-y things along with the straight cisgendered men, with the argument that fandom is a women's space and they are not women, so they should shut up. I've seen it happen a bunch of time, and I don't like it. "

I'm curious. Do you (or anyone else here)have linkable examples of this phenomenon? It's just that in my own experiences of various fandoms over the last decade I have never seen it arise, and I'd like to educate myself.

It may be that my female privilege in fandom space makes me blind to it. Heaven knows, I'm aware enough of the frustration of male friends not *getting* how exclusionary so many spaces can be to a woman on the basis of gender.

I respect OTW's acknowledgement of the feminine-nature of fandom because things like FanLib and the official BSG vidding challenge etc have so frustratingly ignored the experiences of the feminine majority by super-imposing a masculine-centric view of fandom.

However, in those cases it's a case of foreign affairs rather than domestic - dealing with non-fannish organisations who have certain ill-informed assumptions about the gendered nature of many aspects of fandom. I'd be very grateful if I could hear the opinions of men in media fandom who feel unfairly excluded.