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I've been happily posting away here on two accounts since just before the Great Migration, and have no problem being openly a woman on the internet. Up to and including correcting people who assume I'm a guy, and even occasionally acknowledging the existence of periods.

Which, honestly that was a bad tactic back on Reddit, my inbox was a nightmare. But here it's gone much better, so thank you to anyone who ever received one of my corrections with good grace!

It's also brought quite a few DMs my way from other women who try to stay more anonymous with their posts, a choice I can completely understand.

So today on International Women's Day I just want to wave hello to the other women out there, even if you don't want to break cover and wave back. Anonymous or not, cis or trans, I see you out there and you're killing it.

This may break the community rule on encouraging discussion, if nobody wants to out themselves to say hello back. So I guess I should also ask a question.

Um...anyone else using it as an excuse to treat themselves today? I've given myself the day (mostly) off work and am doing some fun gamedev all afternoon instead, then we're planning a takeaway tonight. Easily pleased, perhaps, but sounds good to me πŸ˜„

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thanks although, as I said, been here quite a while now. Still it's good advice for anyone newer who might be reading this, especially the part about the DMs!

My block list is surprisingly short, so far, although let's see if making such a statement in public ends up changing that fact πŸ˜‰

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Posts about how good Lemmy is for women on International Women's Day

Immediately gets Lemmy mansplained to her

Lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Given the casual nature of the community, I thought I'd let it slide this time lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Proof she’s a woman, I guess. :p