Feminism boards

[Believerinbiology]

Can the decision to split the boards be revisited? As I'm sure you are aware many of those who were very vocal about wanting and needing the split do not post. The chat side seems to receive very little traffic and as such some important threads get missed. Posters asking for advice often don't get answers as nobody sees their questions whereas the same question on the other board would get multiple responses. Scrolling through the threads there is not one that I can see that wouldn't fall under "sex and gender" as all the issues women face are due to their sexed bodies, how they are treated because of them, or expectations/restrictions based on perceived gender.

I think you’re probably wasting your time here. MN knows, clearly, as everyone can see that those lobbying for the separation were never frequent users and chat doesn’t get used by them or anyone else

its split and im not going to comment on whether it was a good idea or not (i lied…it was a stupid idea)

however now its split the thing i find most galling is the posters who ‘complained’ (thats not the word i want to use) that they were completely unable to discuss the vital feminist topics they wanted to discuss 🥺 (ok they never were able to start a thread for some unbeknown reason but still)

are they now all over those topics now they are in a completely different ‘safe’ board? Are they fuck 😀

there is a particular poster I’m thinking of that is a regular on the feminism threads, also complained frequently but ive never ever seen them on a feminism chat thread

and im not upset that the boards split, i thought it was a stupid idea and still do, but the split hasn’t worked. If MNHQ didnt move some of these threads the chat board would have nothing on it

( and to any posters that argued in good faith that a separate board was vital and theyeve been diligently starting threads in chat ever since…I’m not talking about you 🙂, im not 100% sure you exist….but im not talking about you)

It’s odd reading this thread right after visiting the sex and gender board.

There’s a big thread there that is literally telling people they cannot be feminist, or call themselves feminist, unless they are GC.

It’s the very definition of exclusionary feminism.

And that’s why the feminism chat board was asked for and provided and is needed.

Non GC feminists were and are fed up with getting called names and all sorts for not being GC. On feminism chat it’s actually possible to have a discussion about women and girls and feminism without it turning into a trans-focussed bear-pit.

if you don’t like it and think it’s tumbleweed, don’t go there. How is it harming you or causing you inconvenience?

But for the love of Boudicca stop moaning about it and going on about how very shit you think it is and trying to get it removed.

There’s a big thread there that is literally telling people they cannot be feminist, or call themselves feminist, unless they are GC

I can’t find any such thread, but so what? Feminists debate it all the time. Plenty of mainstream feminists have said you can’t be feminist if your feminism doesn’t include transwomen. People are entitled to their opinions on the topic.

You sound very bossy. You’ve come here to tell people what they should and shouldn’t say and if they can moan at all, while moaning about a thread defining what a feminist is or is not, apparently. I think it’s quite exclusionary to have separate feminism boards.

You sound very bossy

Seriously? That’s the trope you’re going for in a tread about feminism, to talk down a woman expressing her views.

Debating feminism is one thing - telling women you disagree with that they’re MRA’s / condoning rape and death threats and promoting mutilation of children is something else,

And it’s ok for some feminists to choose not to be around that level of discussion, and keep the separate board MN provided for that reason.

If a subject is to do with Feminism then it is to do with either the female sex or the prejudices/stereotypes due to sex, ie gender. So the appropriate place for everything to do with Feminism or discussed from a Feminist perspective is the Feminism: Sex and Gender board. It's not the Feminism: Trans issues board.

No wonder the old-timers call it FWR - Feminism and Women's Rights.

That’s the trope you’re going for in a tread about feminism, to talk down a woman expressing her views.

No, that’s what you came here to do. I replied to this: But for the love of Boudicca stop moaning about it and going on about how very shit you think it is and trying to get it removed.

The irony of telling other women to stop trying to get it removed when the splitting feminism into two was campaigned for in much the same way.

Report the post if you think it breaks guidelines. Why are you even on that board if you find it so upsetting? Other peoples opinions upsetting or challenging you shouldn’t mean this forum has to create a whole different feminism board especially if that then means some of the regular women wanting to discuss everything in one place, have their posts moved without their agreement to the other board hardly anyone goes to.