Accessible gender-critical forums

[SporadicSpartacus]

Asking for recommendations for other places to have the gender critical debate.

This site has been invaluable to me - I have lurked and gained life input from hundreds (thousands?) of articulate women who have their shit together - I guess replacing the village/family support network, as none of my relatives talk to each other and my own mother has her own stuff to deal with. I truly appreciate Mumsnet for helping me navigate my first unsuccessful marriage, subsequent abusive relationship, then getting on the housing ladder, getting my ASD diagnosis and finding vaguely secure work. Might well stick around on other parts of the site for the TTC journey (and to weigh in on party wall disputes and parking problems, of course)

This particular board is not really accessible to me any more. I’ve explained why on other threads; short version is that my cognitive processing speed is rubbish and I don’t do well with incongruous pronoun changes or trying to post through a filter of cognitive dissonance and disability masking. I find reddit style pisstaking of ‘autistic screeching’ etc easier to navigate than being allowed to talk but only in a weird quasi-foreign language of implication, inference and outright fib. I’d rather discrimination be overt; I can understand and process that.

This is okay, though. I firmly believe that not everything has to be accessible to everyone. Sometimes making a place accessible for some spoils it for the rest - hence asking for recommendations. I am waiting on my account being approved at the other place previously discussed, but I’d be interested where else this conversation can happen.

Btw, I have found the Spartacus threads one of the most powerful expressions of female solidarity I’ve come across in my short feminist career. We don’t have to be constantly articulate or have the time or mental energy to engage in the finer points of debate. Sometimes it’s the volume of voices that matter.

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I am not asking FWR posters to be google for me, fwiw. I just wondered if anyone used other GC spaces online and what they thought about them. Am aware of the GC Reddit but don’t like the layout (although could probably learn to).

GC Reddit is the only one I know of that's public - there's some on MeWe and also FB private groups

Thanks, wfkaw.

They really are few and far between by the look of it - and this is (was) the only one that was aimed at women.

Your decision is understandable. I'm sad that this board is no longer accessible to people with ASD diagnoses.

Would approaching here from the angle of you can comment about the general/group but not a specific person help?

Aw, I got Mumsnet flowers. :)

Waddle - potentially, and that is a helpful generalisation of the principles. I guess the issue is quite a lot of the posts, this being a chat board, are in reaction to something an individual did/said. Cue attempting to have a discussion about, often, an individual’s overt sexism and homophobia, while trying not to hurt their feelings.

I think a comment from the Todmorden WPUK meeting resonates - this is a conversation best had in real life rather than on forums. I do agree with that, but I also value the online social network, as it’s much broader and I get to discuss it with people I probably would never meet in real life.