After two weeks I visited reddit again. Holy shit the misogyny and lack of critical thinking in the comments is something else.
Eternal summer over there
After two weeks I visited reddit again. Holy shit the misogyny and lack of critical thinking in the comments is something else.
Eternal summer over there
Misogyny is something I saw a lot of on Reddit over the recent years. it was seemingly often “the norm” in the bigger subreddits.
I don’t miss it or the constant feeling like I need to argue with a bunch of bad faith people either trolling or genuinely holding horrible views
Heaven forbid TwoXChromosomes not be a default subreddit. I remember when not every OP was badgered so badly in the comments that she had to go back and ETA “not all men” to the post text. Or how women with scathing and accurate insights about the patriarchy didn’t have to always have reddit cares reports filed on their accounts!
This subreddit is the reason I jumped ship before the blackouts. I loved interacting with people there and I don’t want to participate in what’s it’s likely to become. Once the third party mod tools are gone there will be no relatively safe spaces for the ladies on Reddit. I don’t want any part of the trolling and misogyny that’s being unleashed over there.
really? i was on reddit since forever and i feel like 2x was always brigaded
2X would get brigaded and trolled by douchebags from r/The Donald before that sub was quarantined and then closed (which was about the time 2X became a default sub), but before it became a default sub, it was a large but mostly niche interest. It was on the radar for incels and ne’erdowells, but those were relatively small fires for the mod team to put out case-by-case through temp and permanent bans. But once 2X became default - and reddit cares was created - this is when I saw even non-antagonizing men feel welcome to join the discussions and throw their weight around to always say “not all men” in response to whatever the OP was. It was largely counterproductive. The mod team at the time protested the incluaion of 2X on the default subs list when that feature was announced.
the reply of the ill-bred: “equal rights means equal lefts hurr durr”
“I promise I make up fantasies where I get to punch women because I totally just believe in equal rights and not because of misogyny or anything!” - every time. oh and you’d get downvoted to hell if you pointed this stuff out.