A statement to the male-dominant crypto community:
This may come as a shock to you, so brace yourself. Women are also in crypto. Some of them may even have more history, acumen, experience, and money than you do. Some do not. That depends on you, on them: as individuals. Stop seeing a female avatar and making assumptions. There's been an all too familiar pattern forming and I want it to stop before it becomes another microcosm of the way women are handled in other areas of tech and innovation.
The patronizing, condescending, mansplaining that is emerging as gen-pop starts adopting crypto is really starting to get frustrating and could discourage women from actively and outwardly participating in this space. It shouldn’t. We shouldn’t care. We should “lean in”… but many do not. Understand that your gender does not make you intellectually or even financially superior. I have seen some self-proclaimed "advanced traders” in threads give patently incorrect information as though it is fact, explaining their wrongness is the most dumbed down way to a female who dares oppose their view. One can debate without demeaning. Stop assuming just because a woman is posting she is a dumb, doe-eyed, naive little girl who is so lost and out of her league where it comes to crypto. Why do we have to work harder to be taken seriously when we speak?
I have not seen men taunted and prompted to prove how long they have been trading when engaging back and forth in threads. Maybe I'm missing it? I have not seen men asking other men to prove their holdings. What kind of arrogance is involved in saying, "If you were really this or that, you would know/have this or that"... It's disgusting. Why do we have to prove something to you before receiving the same respect? It has to stop. Women exist in this space and as one of them, I want to set firm boundaries where it comes to gender bias. It is up to not only the women but the woke men in this group and this community to stand against this behavior and dialogue when they come across it.
We all deserve the same respect, regardless of gender.
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Aww thank you!!
Yes, girls and crypto do mix!
I haven't come across much patronizing though, to be honest. Maybe I have been lucky?
That's really encouraging to hear! Are you active in many trading groups? That is where I have mostly experienced this.
Not really currently, I mostly follow the news myself
I'm mostly hodling as opposed to trading though, I found it works a lot better for me and it's a lot less stressful!
I would say i've seen plenty of male vs male pissing contests. If some males are particularly nasty just because of their target is female, then that is just disgusting behavior. Some people just are angry people looking for any excuse to pour their insecurities onto someone else.
True. Such a fragile aspect of the human condition.
Thank you for your post! The community needs to be more inclusive and identifying the problems is the first step.
Thank you for your comment! And... 100% - Patronizing one another is not going to help adoption. I've had men who do not even understand basic terms talk down to me like I'm a noob when I have been in crypto since 2011. Even if I was new, is that kind? Does that raise the space for all of us to benefit from? No. It just uplifts their fragile egos briefly. Whatever, I'm laughing all the way to the bank.