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You don't have am answer, so I'll tell you what I've been told; that all we can do is put ourselves in front of the harassment. If it starts happening, call them out. Yeah, you might catch some shit for it, but it's not something that normally happens to you or me most likely.

For example, I frequently play a game called Squad. It's a light mil-Sim, and as you can imagine there are a lot of very annoying misogynistic men. If a woman speaks and people start being annoying, I'll try to step in and take the heat instead. It's not a great solution, but the goal is to not let them think everyone is accepting of it, and maybe let the woman (or other higher pitched voice person) just play the game. I'd rather be the target for once instead of the same people always being the target.

Sadly, some men need to hear it from other men that they need to treat women as just people, not as a different thing.

I don't think women would want you running their women's community though. That's something they need to do on their own probably.