/r/feminism

• how did the current moderators gain control? [1] [2]
  • 28 Apr 2011 — Cliffor gains ownership of /r/feminism
  • 28 Apr 2011 — sodypop gains ownership of /r/feminism [screencap]
  • [2]
• 15 July 2012 — the "/r/feminism is run by MRAS" document is posted [1]
• 12 August 2012 — "no anti-egalitarianism" was added to the sidebar [1] [2] [3] [4]
• 14 August 2012 — /r/antiSRS was added to the sidebar [1] [2] [3]
• 16 August 2012 — others request that the /r/feminism mods be replaced [1]
  • change.org petition
• places set up to document the problems with /r/feminism:
  • /r/meta_meta_feminism

/r/feminism moderators — quotes to keep for the future

• impotent_rage
  • feminism
    • "feminism is a huge tent"
    • "Feminism is an extremely huge tent"
    • "Feminism is a very big tent ... It is not our place as moderators to police which feminist beliefs and approaches are "right" and which are "wrong"."
    • "as we are the official feminist subreddit, we feel that it is our place to take a stand on this matter and publicly declare that SRS is not feminist and does not represent the feminist movement"
    • "true feminists despise them [SRS] even more than the average redditor, because they give feminism such a bad name"
    • "[SRS is] an embarrassment to the feminist movement."
    • "[SRS] are doing more damage to the feminist movement than any anti-feminist ever could."
    • "any feminist ought to also be anti-SRS, considering how much damage SRS has done to the reputation of feminists on reddit."
    • "Their [SRS] behavior is directly contradictory to everything feminism represents."
    • "[SRS] are insular and closeminded and self righteous. It's devastatingly sad that they've managed to convince most of reddit that their nastiness represents what feminism is about."
    • "the whole lot of SRS should apologize to the feminist movement for how low they have sunk standards of feminist discourse"
  • trolling
    • "SRS is reddit's troll headquarters"
    • "[SRS] is such a disgusting cesspool of self-righteous cackling sneering trolls"
    • "SRS is a community dedicated exclusively to trolling"
    • "SRS is populated entirely by trolls"
    • "Places like SRS thrive on drama and being hated."
    • "They [SRS] are trolls and bullies, everyone is sick of their bullshit, but they feed off the bottom of reddit by skimming all the frustrated bullies who want to release their pent up aggression anonymously online."
  • on safe spaces
    • "I think that those who prefer a safe space should have that choice, and those who prefer an open discussion should have that choice. We are the only feminist open discussion on reddit, so we feel it's important to continue to provide that option. But we understand if users prefer to discuss feminism in other safe spaces instead of here."
    • "SRS ... strictly enforces a hivemind mentality where only a very narrow range of a few pre-approved thoughts may be expressed, anything else gets you banned from their subreddit. As such, they rigorously enforce a very compliant and homogenous membership who all follow the same protocol and tactics."
    • "If you go down a path of creating a safe space and deleting all derailing comments - well, according to whom?"
  • on MRAs
    • "I'm not an MRA"
    • "You guys [MRM] do plenty of hating on feminism and feminist spaces, too."
    • "everyone subscribed to r/feminism should also be subscribed to r/masculism and r/GenderEgalitarian"
    • "any feminist who opposes men's rights and doesn't care about discrimination or sexism against men, is not truly a feminist"
    • "overall, I think she's [GirlWritesWhat] a credit to the men's rights movement."
      (GirlWritesWhat says that she "blogs about masculinity, gender equality, and anti-feminism")
    • "/r/againstmensrights, manboobz, and SRS ... are hostile, intellectually dishonest, hypocritical, bullying bigots"
  • unsorted
    • "r/shitredditsays came to power, and now r/mensrights is no longer the ruling bully on reddit"
• demmian
  • SRS shouldn't be discussed or promoted, it's contrary and detrimental to feminism
  • "we do not want that space [SRS] to be discussed/promoted here, since we believe it is contrary and detrimental to what feminism stands for"
  • "Please refrain from anti-egalitarian statements. Those are against our subreddit's policies, and are mod actionable - they will be removed."
• s00ngtype
• Reizu
• wabi-sabi [1]

the rest of the post

"The difference is that the few misandrists within feminism are a tiny minority ... But men's rights has yet to attract enough moderate egalitarians to marginalize their misogynists to the same degree."

things I actually agree with

• impotent_rage
  • "I condemn anyone who would broadly write off all of the men's rights movement because of the bad elements within it. I condemn anyone who would broadly write off all of the feminist movement because of the bad elements within it"
  • "that's why I've supported /r/masculism as much as I can - because I don't think that antifeminism should be a part of men's rights. I support men's rights, I don't support the antifeminist brand of men's rights that is prevalent over at r/mensrights."
  • "The difference is that the few misandrists within feminism are a tiny minority when compared to the vast numbers of moderate egalitarians who make up the bulk of the feminist movement. But men's rights has yet to attract enough moderate egalitarians to marginalize their misogynists to the same degree." (and generally discussing how MRM could be a good thing, but generally isn't)
  • "/r/MensRights the subreddit, though, has been too explicitly antifeminist and has promoted too much misogyny over the years"
• demmian
• s00ngtype
• Reizu