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Why r/GenderCritical was banned by Reddit

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MadBadDaddy · 29/06/2020 23:38

Hi! TRA here! Thought I'd take a quick breather from all the crowing, high-fiving, etc. to throw a lifeline to any actual open-minded critical thinkers wondering why Reddit banned r/gendercritical. Basically, you have 2 options when it comes to what to believe:

  1. It's a true conspiracy: silicon valley, hollywood & the media are in the thrall of the well-funded TransAgenda, the need for woke points, child-groomers, women-haters, MRAs, etc. etc.
  1. r/GenderCritical was hateful - if you want evidence then go to r/GenderCynical which existed to harvest said hatefulness. Read their strictly enforced rules about hate speech, misogyny, anti-feminism, pile-ons, doxxing, etc. (NB: abbreviating "trans exclusionary radical feminist" is not considered hate speech on this subreddit) and then sort their posts by "top" and "all time" and judge for yourself.

The trans men, trans women and non-binary people of Reddit do not hate women and do not tolerate abuse. Have a better day. x

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ThePawtriarchy · 30/06/2020 00:57

There’s a never-ending supply just in case we accidentally think independently.

Ereshkigalangcleg · 30/06/2020 00:46

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7Days · 30/06/2020 00:45

Biology is real
Sometimes it matters
Shore up safeguarding

After that let's all do what we like .

Not hateful

ThePawtriarchy · 30/06/2020 00:40

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tarkovsky · 30/06/2020 00:39

the “silly cis women” part is supposed to be sarcastic btw cause I know it’s hard to tell nowadays.

tarkovsky · 30/06/2020 00:36

you’d have to be a proper numpty to think reddit deleting r/gendercritical was anything but empty virtue-signalling. they also deleted r/chapotraphouse which was a forum for edgy leftists that unequivocally supported trans activism. so by your logic reddit must also be transphobic? the bottom line is they want to make money in a very polarising socio-political moment in time and they are coming for any forum that is deemed remotely contentious and is constantly reported against(except for r/mensrights cause reasons). the fact that you think this corporation is your ally-for silencing those silly cis women-is hilarious though.

AnneOfCreamCables · 30/06/2020 00:35

God, if someone could ever answer that we could all go home
So true.

bishopgiggles · 30/06/2020 00:32

What's the point in telling lies you know are lies and we know are lies?

God, if someone could ever answer that we could all go home.

OliveKitteridgeAgain · 30/06/2020 00:31

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Ereshkigalangcleg · 30/06/2020 00:30

I've read the trans subreddits. You can't see the misogyny there for the same reason that fish can't see water.

Quite. Me too.

contactusdeletus · 30/06/2020 00:27

By the way, I'm not sure I'd be sending people to r/gendercynical in your shoes. I've visited both subs to compare, and all my time doing your recommended reading taught me was that TRAs weren't half as rational or sensible as the women of r/gendercritical. The entire sub seemed to exist to grab quotes, present them out of context, and carp about what terrible TERF bitches the women of the GC were. It was very childish. Make your own bogeyman, cry about that bogeyman, find a new bogeyman. Rinse and repeat. It was all very school yard and sad.

The main evidence of how "hateful" the women were seemed to be their insistence on fact-based language. They had a policy of using sex based pronouns. That was it. Eeee-vil.

SetYourselfOnFire · 30/06/2020 00:24

What's the point in telling lies you know are lies and we know are lies, OP?

AnneOfCreamCables · 30/06/2020 00:19

I missed the thread on here but there were a lot of men tweeting about this before the MN thread appeared.
OP isn't explaining to them. I wonder why. It's almost as though OP deliberately decided to patronise one sex ... but how could that be when OP can't tell the difference between the sexes ? It's a real puzzle.

contactusdeletus · 30/06/2020 00:18

Ah yes, the strictly enforced rules about hate speech, misogyny, harassment and doxxing that Reddit is so famous for! Rules that lead them to take down a feminist forum while rape fetish sub-reddits remain and flourish.

Only a conspiracy nut would question the impartiality of this decision

ShiveringCoyote · 30/06/2020 00:17

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bishopgiggles · 30/06/2020 00:17

That was a bit of a reverse-psychology troll, admittedly.

That was trolling? Golly gosh, who could've seen through that ingenious piece of subterfuge!?

Maybe check out the talk guidelines...

FloralBunting · 30/06/2020 00:15

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ShiveringCoyote · 30/06/2020 00:15

@Tapio it means Trans Right Activist. We get them around these here parts every now and then.

ErrolTheDragon · 30/06/2020 00:14

Oh well. This forum has rules too.

Reddit doesn't really seem to matter much to anyone outside of reddit tbh, but points 1 seem pretty well exemplified by twitter nowadays.

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MadBadDaddy · 30/06/2020 00:14

@bishopgiggles

You're the op who was trying to get people to campaign against an American Battered Women's Justice Project, aren't you?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3951098-Found-a-helpful-list-of-subscribers-to-the-Gender-Insanity

I'll leave others to decide if they want to give their time to this discussion.

That was a bit of a reverse-psychology troll, admittedly. Thanks for reposting the link! :)
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LemonadeAndDaisyChains · 30/06/2020 00:11

AnneOfCreamCables
I was wondering why the OP came here to talk about something no-one on MN was discussing but I worked it out

Erm.... there's a whole thread on here about it being banned so clearly it is being talked about?

Tapio · 30/06/2020 00:11

What does TRA stand for? Sorry I get lost with the acronyms

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Kantastic · 30/06/2020 00:11

The trans men, trans women and non-binary people of Reddit do not hate women

I've read the trans subreddits. You can't see the misogyny there for the same reason that fish can't see water.

notasportymum · 30/06/2020 00:10

men silencing women. no change there then.