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They should do like the tech community. Make "Pinterest Boys Meetup" and "PiGuys" making free lunch paid by all the major clothing companies where girls are not allowed to participate. Also, they should host conferences and encourage guys to participate and make discounts for them. They should tell everyone how much they appreciate guys joining them.


I sense some antagonism on your part against Women In Tech groups. Here's a piece about how they are actually useful http://geekfeminism.org/2014/03/04/in-defense-of-women-in-te...

(Also all of those things would work, if men were negatively affected by our current patriarchy in the same way as women are in tech, which they aren't.)


Fwiw there are some groups like that for men in industries where there's historical stigma against male participation, like nursing: http://www.aamn.org/. Doesn't even seem particularly controversial; the AAMN doesn't generate nearly the level of anger that women-in-tech groups do.


There's no controversy because these goals are always seen through the lens of society as a whole. Groups like the AAMN helps people who are generally privileged achieve parity in an area where they are currently stigmatised. They don't do anything that looks like it erodes male privilege, so there is no reason for them to attract any ire.


And because the AAMN doesn't consist of a bunch of bloggers and click-bait artists attacking female nurses with a bunch of rude stereotypes.


Hey, it was surely intended as a brilliant satire on the tech industry...




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