I don&#x27;t think the disdain for these safe spaces is necessarily from sexism and hatred (though HN has issues with those).<p>The basic &quot;problem&quot; from developer culture is that it is heavily rooted in systems logic, and frankly safe spaces as proposed and as advertised and as popularly understood are illogical.<p>Very simply, using your definition, the safe space both proclaims to allow discussion <i>and then by its very definition excludes one side of that same discussion</i>.<p>If the claim was &quot;Hey, look, we just need a separate place where we don&#x27;t fear bullying, violence, and microaggressions&quot; that would be understandable and not a problem.<p>However, the claim is invariably appended with &quot;And we can have useful discussions here, and no other place can have useful discussions, and we accept everyone--except these other people that we decide have badthink&quot; and once that amendment is made it triggers the developer bullshit alarm.