"a handful of subs where women talk amongst themselves about issues that affect them are a bannable offense."

Ah, like the good ol' days when women held even less rights and DARED to act against the ruling majority of men. It might be too far-fetched for me to say this, but wouldn't the banning of a space to discuss issues important to our times with hopes of changing those issues for the better... by WOMEN... be similar to a time when women couldn't vote (and therefore held no legal agency to actively discuss political issues or make an active change)? After all, discussion is the first step when it comes to change, so to ban discussion in a group of women, is it not akin to trying to silence us, to take us to a time when our opinion 'means nothing'?

I am probably exaggerating quite a bit, but I still think the parallel is interesting, especially considering that some posts I've read on reddit (before deactivating my accounts) made it seem like the mass ban-wave is also politically-based.