That was an interesting post. At my GA meeting people do not have to speak and some don’t. But I have seen new women members come and go, at least 5 or 6 some frogmarched in by worried f and f. But they only last one or two meetings then stop attending. I was the only consistent woman attending. I don’t think this is a coincidence. Control comes from patriarchy and men led. Just some men, not all. I saw a woman chair at my first meeting bitched on and attacked by a couple of men. That was why I never went back after my first meeting. I could have prevented s further years worth of pain if it had not been this way. Even reading some of the GA literature really makes me cringe. It is loaded with assumptions, some of them not nice at all, about the cg. And it is totally geared towards dishonest male action gamblers some of whom may have committed crime. I just can’t buy into it as I don’t believe it in the core of my being. But I believe it still can help but as I have said before at arms length.
