Senator Markwayne Mullin on Tulsi Gabbard as DNI:
"She is 100% qualified to be the next Director of National Intelligence."
The US Senate is rallying around Tulsi. Let's go!! 🔥
Every time there’s a male “thing” that gets taken over by women it follows the same format.
1. The hobby is an unspoken boys’ club, focused on a male-oriented activity (MMA, DnD, gaming, etc.)
2. A few women join, still a very small part of the overall community. They mostly join because they’re actually interested in the thing. They don’t want special treatment and participate mostly along the established male norms of the group.
This leads to some awkwardness among the men, but isn’t a death sentence in itself.
3. The women in the group are painted as pioneers, brave and laudable centers of attention for breaking barriers. So, more women join. Many more.
Now, they often join as a form of social status smurfing, or for a female peer group (which doesn’t exist naturally in male hobbies), or for access to men. This round usually has only a tangential interest in the thing at hand.
4. With more women involved, many of whom are not interested in the core of the subculture, the norms and practices change to accommodate them. The culture of an MMA gym becomes less aggressive and in-your-face; DnD communities focus more on romance/socializing and less on battles; gaming becomes what it is now.
The women of the second “wave” get a sort of stolen valor, for being “pioneers” in the subculture, even though their inclusion irreparably changed it for the worse, alienating the core (male and female) group.
The women of the first wave usually quietly grumble about this, but that’s it. Any man who complains is painted as a misogynist.
This happens in a different way in female-oriented hobbies dealing with men, but that’s a far less common situation.