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AIBU to think deleting the TIME thread because of misogynist infestation is itself anti-feminist?

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HomeHelpMeGawd · 12/11/2014 20:57

I know that MNHQ needs to pull the plug if things get out of hand, but I was dismayed to see a this happen to a thread started in order to express outrage at TIME magazine's decision to include feminist as a candidate for the '2014 word that should be banned'. I presume it happened because there were a significant number of misogynistic posts. But this shrinks the space in which feminists can talk. If we can't have a thread on a feminist board on MN to express outrage about TIME magazine's behaviour, where the fuck are we supposed to go with this? Surely MNHQ can find a way to act that better supports women in the future?

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IonaMumsnet · 12/11/2014 22:00

Evening folks. We're sorry we had to delete that thread. It was a really interesting discussion. Unfortunately we had an invasion of trolls from a particularly nasty corner of the troll world and some of the words and images posted just have no place in the public domain. While we deleted and banned many of them, the sheer volume of posts meant that the only solution was to delete the thread. Apologies that it spoiled an interesting debate. We felt on balance that it would do more harm to leave it up than to delete it. Hope you understand our position.

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