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To be a bit dismayed if 4 million women visit this site,why are there so few posts on the feminism threads?

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Scarletohello · 30/10/2014 22:05

Ok so I know there are lots of lurkers but if there are really millions of women who go on MN, why are so many threads on the feminism section consisting of so few women? It doesn't make sense to me as so many issues that
women post about on many different topics are actually feminist issues when it comes down to it...

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PeppermintCrayon · 18/04/2015 12:26

Haven't RTFT.

I used to read feminist threads sometimes. I stopped after reading one about how self-injury is a feminist issue and if women just valued our bodies more it wouldn't happen.

Which was complete and utter shite.

RufusTheReindeer · 18/04/2015 13:04

I always find the board very interesting

There may be a thread or views I don't agree with but that's the case with every other board in this forum

I don't agree with every feminist view point but as an atheist I don't agree with every atheist viewpoint, if I belonged to a political party I wouldn't agree with every viewpoint either

Viviennemary · 18/04/2015 13:08

I sometimes read the posts on the feminist threads but I don't often post there because I don't agree with a lot of the views. And they're not exactly open to other people's opinions if they don't happen to agree with them.

SaucyJack · 18/04/2015 13:12

Just been for another nosy on there on account of this thread being bumped and - quelle surprise - they're all still banging on about what other women do with their fanny hair.

TomCruiseCreepsMeOut · 18/04/2015 13:13

I have read the feminist board for around five years now, and although I don't post much I read and learn as much as I can, as a mother of two daughters. I find the board so interesting....the women there are extremely intelligent, articulate and so passionate about the welfare of women across the globe. I think it is sad that people are so negative about this very valuable resource we have right here - women who are well read on feminism and are so able to express themselves on how feminism is so vital today. So many posters just seem to want to pick at the regular posters there without actually LISTENING, and that makes me query what exactly they are trying to achieve in doing this.

WorraLiberty · 18/04/2015 13:25

Well this is a blast from the past

I'd forgotten how much this thread (or rather the patronising TAAT in FWR) annoyed me so much Grin

Psipsina · 18/04/2015 13:35

This looks to be a very large thread and I am sure someone's pointed it out already, but it occurs to me it's very obvious why there aren't more posts on the feminism boards. It's because there are too many RL individual issues, a lot of which could come under feminism but are also under other topics such as domestic violence/relationships, things like that...and the issue at hand isn't a philosophical or political one but a real life one. So people post them I nthe relevant section in order to deal with the issue at hand.

MN is FILLED with feminist issue threads but mostly, they are part of everyday life and need dealing with as such, not marking up to a measure of how women are getting on in the world at large.

Feminism shouldn't be a distraction from the actual problems faced by women every single day.

amothersplaceisinthewrong · 18/04/2015 13:40

It's frankly very boring on there. Set views about the patriarchy etc etc, done to death.

uglyswan · 18/04/2015 14:09

SaucyJack - I know, right? There's nothing there at all on the glass ceiling, workplace harassment or discrimination or gendered violence. It's wall-to-wall fanny hair. I shouldn't go there, if I were you.

DrHarleenFrancesQuinzel · 18/04/2015 14:16

I hid FWR a long, long time ago and have no intention of ever unhiding it.

I do enough eye rolling at the threads which complain about pink things like lego enough to start looking elsewhere.

Hakluyt · 18/04/2015 14:26

Interesting how loads of people who never go on FWR or even hide it so it doesn't show up on their browser know all about what happens there.

"All PIV sex is rape"- Really? Has anyone actually said that since 1967?

OrlandoWoolf · 18/04/2015 14:28

hakylut

I hid it very recently. I know exactly what goes on there and the attitudes of a few very dominant posters.

ihatelego · 18/04/2015 14:30

There have been too many cases of people feeling savaged over there for asking questions or daring to have an opinion that is not in line so lots avoid it

^it's not worth the headache Grin

Psipsina · 18/04/2015 14:31

I avoid it largely because it's a war zone. Not just among the women here but the MRAs that turn up.

Can't be doing with it - I'd rather fight on an individual, day by day basis with the stuff I have to engage with in my own life.

NeedAScarfForMyGiraffe · 18/04/2015 14:33

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Hakluyt · 18/04/2015 14:35

Right. Let's get this sorted out once and for all. Please will someone-or several someones-

  1. Name the dominant posters.

  2. Link to some threads where people have been savaged for asking questions

  3. Linkto some threads where people have been bullied for expression opinions.

ihatelego · 18/04/2015 14:36

I disagree with abortion to term Shock never heard of this.. is it a thing?!

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 18/04/2015 14:39

I had my eyes opened to feminism by the FWR board. Before that, my views were very much formed by the media, and subscribed to the idea that we are objects, we are for men's gratification, women are unreasonable wanting equality and feminists are all bra burning harridans.

The FWR board never attacked me or insulted me, they educated me. Wonder if some people posting on here just can't tell the difference?

ApocalypseNowt · 18/04/2015 14:39

I like to look in FWR ever now and again. If i have something to say I post it. I'm not super clever, know next to nothing about feminist theory but have to say no-one's ever flamed me or anything like that.

I find some of it interesting, some of it goes over my head but I do feel i've learnt some useful stuff. I like it.

OrlandoWoolf · 18/04/2015 14:40

I could easily start a thread and I could name 5 posters who would respond and their views which are very entrenched and who don't listen to other POV.

I've namechanged because of those people.Makes posting on certain threads a lot easier if people don't know who you are.

MoominKoalaAndMiniMoom · 18/04/2015 14:44

ihate there is a school of thought that in order to be pro choice, you cannot be pro choice unless.... Or pro choice, but...

Personally I feel that to put a time or circumstance limit on when a woman gets autonomy over her own body is almost as bad as stripping her of any autonomy at all when she becomes pregnant. That is not to say I rub my hands with glee at the thought of a TOP at 39 weeks, which many people seem to forget.

However, that is another topic for another thread, and maybe I'm just a crazy feminist so what do I know!?

WorraLiberty · 18/04/2015 14:45

Oh yes because naming the dominant posters won't cause a ruck at all, will it? Grin

ApocalypseNowt · 18/04/2015 14:47

Maybe i've been lucky or maybe it's because i've never started a thread on there? Everyone's always been luffly to me!

DoraGora · 18/04/2015 14:49

I joined a feminism thread on mn once and it was about how every man on earth is a rapist. I've never read so much rubbish in my life. Some of the others might be better. But, tbh, I'm in no hurry to find out.

Hakluyt · 18/04/2015 14:50

"Oh yes because naming the dominant posters won't cause a ruck at all, will it? grin"

I don't think it would, actually, but if it did, so what?