More from the same article:To flog what should be a very dead horse, women self-segregating is not the same as men self-segregating. Men’s self-segregated fraternities have historically functioned — as they do today — to consolidate power and exclude others. Women’s self-segregation, on the other hand, generally works to provide women with temporary relief from the consequences of that power. Pretending these are mirror-image phenomena is, frankly, stupid, no matter how many legal or intellectual rationales might be used.The same can be said, by the way, about Black people and other racial minorities, not just women. When marginalized people self segregate it is because they need to provide safe spaces for them to exist in. When powerful people self segregate it is to preserve their power and exclude others from gaining that power.
