GeniesLoki

Minorities (e.g. sex, race) sometimes form subgroups within larger groups ("Women in Tech", "African Americans in Finance") and these can be awesome even if you ban them from discussing the trait that makes them different together.

Note; I've experienced this with gender and assume it generalizes to other traits, but would be very interested in hearing if I'm wrong.

In communities that are very big, X in Y can be pleasantly small. You see the same people frequently but not too frequently, get new people pleasantly often but not to often. It can be a mutual aid thing where you have more expectation of receiving help so you give more help.

I think I ended up benefiting from being female when I went into the crypto space, because women were so happy to see another woman that they were very helpful, much more help than a new man could expect to get.

This dynamic can coexist with discrimination or harassment against the minority. They don't cancel out.