Actually, I'm beginning to think that a men's issues forum is a good idea. The hijack/diversionary posts would be moved out of there, leaving meaningful conversation regarding the issues!
Many, if not most, feminists are also concerned about men's issues, so feminists would prolly be posting there in those conversations. I don't know if this is going to cause any complaints from some masculinists, but it would be a good way to identify those who are merely anti-feminist.
Sure, I'd post in there, prolly. OTOH, I still don't think it's necessary to avoid men's issues in the feminist DIR. I don't subscribe to a gender binary in my thinking, and the feminist issues that interest me most tend to affect everybody.
Here's the problem as I see it. Somebody posts "my partner is violent" in one DIR and someone else posts "I hit my partner" in the other. It's the same issue: domestic violence. And that's an issue feminists are very active in addressing. Non-gender-binary feminists like myself will not assume who hit who based on each party's allotment of genitals, but are still concerned about domestic violence, and consider it a feminist issue.
I think separating men's issues from feminism might create the misleading impression that there's one DIR for men and another for women, entrenching further binary gender stereotyping.
On the other hand, not everybody who wants to discuss men's issues is going to identify as a feminist, so