hypothetical question: you get some email from the diversity committee being like "join our program! all people welcome for our diversity program!" doesn't matter what it is.

as a white hetero cis-male, i have no idea what to do here. i'd be happy to sign up but does that even make sense? i get the impression that the idea is for the program to just be for women and minorities and to a lesser extent non hetero/cis people.

i unironically support more women in stem and so forth (honestly i feel like my field, physics, is stagnant because of nature right now, not because of the people working on it, so if i get to work with more girls instead of all dudes that's fine and no great loss to our stagnant field) and minorities and gays/lesbos/trannies/queerfags are fine too. and i'm OK with them starting their little clubs for them. but when they invite me to clubs they start and act like i'm totally welcome i'm like "wot?".... just does not compute. i figure it is just a token motion to say "everyone is welcome" when really they mean "all non-cis-hetero-white-males are welcome"