Wow! Your perspective couldn't come at a better time for me personally. I don't want to dwell on your gender exclusively, since your points about the "chosen few" in a group ring true. Please bear with me. I attended my first in person meetup a few weeks ago. I actually wrote about it here. I noticed how few women were in attendance. My 22 year old daughter has some interest in learning about bitcoin, and almost decided to go with me the other night. She decided not to. She has seen a lot of toxicity towards women online, particularly reddit r/bitcoin, and didn't think she would be comfortable. I honestly don't blame her. I had a great time at my second meetup, but there were probably two women in a group of close to 100 people. [...]

I seriously don’t understand this model. [...]

Yea, maybe let's try hard to have bitcoin only content, but if one non-bitcoin sneaks in, it's ok? [...]