Why do they want to silence us?

[BirthCanal]

Why are there so many posters these days trying to interrupt our threads, derail our arguments and generally shut us up?

Maybe they are scared by our coherent arguments; or jealous of our ability to get along?

I came here FROM Twitter. I found it toxic over there and someone told me that MN was the place for women who wanted to be able to discuss their own issues.

There seem to be some men (and I have no idea what proportion of men it is) who think that women going about their lives without framing their experiences in terms of men in their lives means that men are being replaced. This is a scary thought for them, for some, especially those who feel insecure compared to other men.

Honestly? Because we're having an impact

yup. combined with an intrinsic feeling that women expressing an opinion is wrong

and so much this:

I want an analysis of NI and Brexit, or the Malaysian airplane crash? I come here

Because we women should know our place. But we don't.

But we are beginning to

Courage calls to courage.
I saw the same thing happen on tumblr. The misogynists thought they ruled the place but all it too was a few women to speak up and say no to men and the next thing you know there is consciousness raising happening right there in front of everybody.

I just joined twitter a few months ago because I am the sound bite queen in my family and they all told me that twitter was designed especially for me. It is teaching me to be brief, briefer?

Women sharing information frightens men.

^This.

Try and find any other UK or even international online open feminist forums... now look for MRA online forums (think boards, open comments sections on youtube videos, online communities, etc)... there are thousands of them and all comments posted go largely unchallenged as women have better things to do then "police" men like men "police" women... I've tried engaging in good faith many times before, but in 3,2,1... threats of rape and violence begin... weird because they present themselves as the rational, logical ones.. but they sure do get emotion and violent quickly... Really wish this section of Mumsnet had a similar slogan to the avoiceformen boards: a voice for women - no apologies.

than and emotional

They are trying to silence us because they hate us and need us at the same time. Like masters and slaves. Our chains are invisible now...

I think emotional abuse tactics- such as gaslighting and minimising - should be taught to all primary school aged children. Only then will we begin to regain our freedom.

Quite a few of the rules apply:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/6kkeni/theerulesoffmisogyny/

From Glosswitch article previous page:

"The deliberate withdrawal of women from men has almost always been seen as a potentially dangerous or hostile act, a conspiracy, a subversion, a needless and grotesque thing.” Thus wrote Adrienne Rich in 1976’s Of Woman Born, her seminal exploration of the politics of motherhood. From the workers gossiping in the spinning circle to old wives passing down knowledge of contraception and abortion, women gathered in isolation have long been considered untrustworthy. What might they be saying? What could they be plotting? And how, above all, might they be controlled?

It’s a problem that’s never gone away, though the context has changed. Anxiety over women’s speech – fuelling violent backlash in the form of witch trials and scold’s bridles – arose at a time when, to quote Marina Warner, “women dominated the webs of information and power; the neighbourhood, the village, the well, the washing place, the shops, the stalls, the street were their arena of influence, not only the household”.continues