There's a #computerscience club at my school, that I just joined. It seems kind of direction-less at the moment, and discussions get way off topic and stuck in tangents with a bunch of pedantic "well, actually," droning. Worse, the first day I went in the club, the club president made a sexist joke, and it's pretty unfortunate since there's two women in the club (a cis young lady and me).
Any ideas on how to suggest improving the club without being an insufferable SJW in their eyes?
@ikea_femme that sucks. what's the ostensible purpose of the club? just discussing computer science? do people give talks?
@musclemanhouseguest The purpose is discussion, sometimes somebody leads a topic. Sometimes it has no topic, and it's essentially a study hall.
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| sometimes there's no topic, and it's essentially a study hall.
That's absolutely ridiculous for a field as active as CS. Like, you could literally blast out invitations to the maintainers of moderately popular github projects to Skype about whatever language/framework they use and you'd be set for the year.
Anyone who cares about this has something interesting to say. Your president? All he's got to say is "tits"
@Nuzzle @ikea_femme @musclemanhouseguest I can only speak from my experience (small, urban liberal arts college), but there wasn't any cost to dropping a club. It may be different at a really small school, or one that's heavily invested in sports.
@edd @ikea_femme @musclemanhouseguest Very much this.
Heck, I'm nobody, but I wouldn't mind volunteering as tribute.
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Pretty good idea! I'll propose it, and if they're not on board, I'll move on.
@ikea_femme @musclemanhouseguest Good luck, I hope it goes well!
@edd @ikea_femme @musclemanhouseguest
This seems good advice. As far and "Get out" goes, that could well be good advice to bear in mind forwards. I would be inclined to see whether other potentially friendly people in the existing group have any desire to overhaul or offshoot.
[I don't know much about the specifics of the US school club system, or how socially isolating it is to not be in one, which is why I didn't suggest cutting and running right away]