I am also curious to know what happened. I disliked how they completely banned men from participating on the forum, but it still had good content on there for lurkers.
This is a very female behavior, something about their gender craves exclusion
A reading of history would show that it’s actually the other way around.
For pretty much all of recorded European/Western history (as far back as Bronze Age Greece), women were confined by men to the domestic sphere. Even if they escaped the domestic sphere, wealthy and powerful men ensured that the places they conducted business and politics to make all the important decisions were both male-only and excluded the so-called “lower” classes. There are exceptions, e.g., Queen Boudicca, Joan of Arc but they are notable precisely because they are such rare historical anomalies. Gradually, over the last couple of centuries, people have been successful in breaking down these exclusionary barriers. I’m old enough to remember when golf clubs that the “great” and the powerful did their networking were legally prevented from excluding women.
From what little I’ve read of Asian history, it seems to have been a similar situation. Practices such as foot-binding ensured that women physically could not participate in society as the equal of men.
I wouldn’t feel at all miffed about women wanting a place where they can discuss cosmetic surgery amongst themselves.
