I live in a larger city so we have several local news options, but very little of that involves actual investigative work. It's usually just repeating talking points from the police, they mayor's office, the dept of transportation...literally just talking points that whatever organization gave to the news, and then they repeat it. Sometimes they get really spicy and repeat a twitter thread.
It's useful for learning things like weather events, power outages, events going on, mundane stuff like that.
We also have like two actual investigative newspapers, which is way more than the vast majority of the planet has and we're incredibly lucky to have them. Those journalists do not get paid enough for what they do. They expose corruption, and they contextualize the information in the talking points I mentioned earlier.
Being a woman definitely doesn't help, since women are massively undervalued in the workplace. But for everyone, leaving for a new job is what makes pay go up. Companies have twice the budget for new hires as they do for internal pay raises/promotions.
It's not a men's space but it's a men's topic. So yes, you're imposing.
And the problem is, it's not just you with a one off comment. Most discussions, that's perfectly fine. Come in, refute misinfo, leave. Great. No harm done.
When men in neutral spaces bring up any problems they have, there are HORDES of people coming in wanting to talk about How Bad Women Have It. It downs out the initial conversation. And often there's some of those people who go so far as saying men don't have it bad at all, ever.
And again, I can't emphasize this enough: we don't have safe spaces. This is the only type of place where we can actually talk about this kind of stuff.
So, if you want to not be an asshole, you should take some time to acknowledge the central issue here. Just a couple of sentences. BEFORE being called out about it.
God I need a job like yours. Lucky bastard.