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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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...

I lurk on FWR.

The last thread I posted on was about a year ago. Possibly more.

I don't recall the subject but I must have felt I was qualified to talk about it because I did. A few people responded. No one had a go at me. If they had I'd had had a go back.

I eventually bowed out because it was getting academic and it bored me.

I said politely that was my reason for bowing out.

No one attacked me for saying that. They just ignored me and continued on their own tangent.

Fair enough.

I think apathetic voters are a bit crap too, TBH.

Women fought for the vote, and some people just don't bother. Not ok.

Women fought for the vote, and some people just don't bother. Not ok.

So did many men as well. You don't want to wipe out their actions as well?

I used to post on the feminism threads, but got hounded by some sad suck who thought she owned the place. Haven't been back since. Life's too short.

I read the occasional thread, but it's all a bit TERFy there which I am really not comfortable with,

You don't expect to be agreed with in a debate, but you expect to be free to hold your opinion and allowed to voice it- not be intimidated by those who think they speak for all women because they are 'right'.

orlando, you've already been picked up once for point scoring. Let's not get into this again.

I stress women fighting for the vote because women were, and are, oppressed. Doesn't mean men didn't fight, and it's very different from defining 'people' in a way that excludes a whole group, which is what you did.

My point scoring comment was not directed at FWR

I mean Orlando

I know, I didn't think it was.

Hmm, how are you being "allowed" or "unallowed " to hold an opinion. I've seen lots of people disagreeing but I've never seen anyone on the fem boards or elsewhere saying, you aren't "allowed" to hold that opinion

outs, I think they're referring to deletions?

MNHQ do delete posts for being personal attacks, or grotesquely misogynistic/rape apologist, or transphobic.

My experience is that people who complain about FWR have usually given it a go, been deleted, and feel bitter about it.

Maybe I was just brought up differently but I was encouraged to take a career, earn money, get educated, be strong and stand up for yourself, completely treated as equal to males so I have never felt any different despite being all girl siblings.
I was born 1969 so my parents were prob not the norm back then (i dont know) but they certainly never tried anybgender type stuff (uther than barbie - god I loved her even after i pierced her ears cutbher hair and turned her in to a punk :)

Too many hads there in my last post.

But I'm a feminist and my legs need shaving and my roots definitely need doing tomorrow.

If you want the perfect formula for home-dyed mid-brown hair with a touch of red, pick me. I really know what I'm talking about.

The price of admission is that you have to sign up to SCUM .

I can't do blonde. But then blondes are just a construct of the patriarchy. Plus, I don't really understand any dye numbers over 7.

Anyway, man-hate or fabulous hair colour on a budget.

You choose...

back - well, um ... I'm sorry if I misunderstood.

Would it kill you to explain, instead of just assuming I didn't understand?

Because the feminism board is full of absolute, utter overthinking shite and if you dare to have a differing opinion you get screamed down into submission.

Oh, right, deletions. The people allowing in that case aren't the FEMS on the board, though

Yes, I know that outs, but I think people often don't realise. Especially those of our, shall we say, visitors from elsewhere?

I recently had someone really lay into me, lying about me persistently and claiming I had called her a misogynist. MNHQ did delete the worst bits, but it was fairly unpleasant.

Sorry to be so slowly responding as to affect randomness, my last was to Jeanne on deletions, re the idea of being "allowed" opinions.

I know screaming is used as a metaphor in "screamed down into submission" but really? How does that describe a disagreement you might have over the internet? Isn't it really a description of how you think others are feeling? And the fact is you are PROJECTING that onto people, that they are "screaming". Apart from the fact that I doubt anyone would say a group they assumed were men were " screaming" I just really think people need to reflect a bit on why they are perceiving such irrational emotionalism on feminists who are disagreeing with them.