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I am extremely happy about the large influx of woman-centering women here, and women in general. I had just gotten back on reddit recently because I was thinking of trying to make a women's sub here and asking people to join after someone mentioned the reddit feminist subs here... well, not really what I was hoping would happen, but there are a lot of women here now!!

One thing I'm excited about is about having a non-controlled space where women can just talk to other women. Not just radfem-compliant women, or XYZ-feminism-compliant women, just women. Let us just talk to each other! Let us exchange ideas! Let us understand what each other actually think, and why! Let us have respectful dialogue with each other!

I haven't gotten around to making my sub, but something I've been wanting for a few years now since discovering GC is an "international women's sub". Not "feminist", just "pro-women". And yes that will mean different things for different women, that's the point of the "international" idea -- we're supposed to recognize each other's differences and sovereignty and collaborate respectfully where it makes sense.

I am also excited to see more women's perspectives on the site in general. I would love to see all the intelligent GC women spread their intelligence and their pro-woman-ness here. Check out /s/Feminism, for one... or maybe it's not worth engaging with people with ideological differences, and instead it's better to just demonstrate women's excellence by existing and being visibly active being intelligent and doing competent things.

[–]jelliknight[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

"international women's sub"

sounds lovely. I'll join and rep Australia. I'd love to chat to some ladies from switzerland

I think it will be great for the GC women to spread out across subs. Totally encourage those here to jump in and put high quality responses on everything in r/all. There are enough of us that we can steer the tone if the whole place, and dont have to stay locked into the only non-misogynistic corner like on Reddit