Especially since Web2.0 with its capabilities for interaction, the WWW has become much more than just a way of broadcasting information to the whole world. It allows for private groups and conversations. It allows those with mutual interests to get together and for friendships to form - an extension of real life which has it’s mum’s groups, nights out with ‘the boys’ nights out ‘with the girls’….

Such private groups give us the right and freedom to choose who we mix with, who we share the more intimate aspects of our life with? It tends to be the nature of online groups that there is an outward face where information is viewable by all and a behind the scenes where people can feel more comfortable to interact more privately. There is also the issue of feeling secure and free from the unwelcome sexual advances that often plague public online groups.

While looking for men only groups on the net I found a men only membership site with content that I found discriminatory and offensive to women. That I did find distasteful as I would if a women’s only site was the same.

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It’s ok for sites or anything else to focus on one demographic group, but once it starts to disallow anyone who is not part of that group to join, I believe that is discrimination.

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