there's a club at my school that's supposed to be for women in my field since it's harder for us to break into it and i'm not surprised they're like "men are welcome too" but there's always part of me that just goes "but why?"

and a bunch of guys are coming to the meet and greet and ugh i know they're gonna try to dominate the conversation bc they always fucking do

even in spaces we create for ourselves men have to barge in and take over. i wouldn't mind if they just sat and listened while we did all the talking but it's never like that.