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[–]feministunderyrbed 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You know, I wasn’t going to leave Reddit. I’ve been there for ten years and made many different alts for different interests, now mostly abandoned. I’ve used it to keep in touch with my local community, my profession, and my hobbies. I was fully aware of the prevailing misogyny but I thought I could hide in my little niches of sanity and ignore the larger reality. I wasn’t even that active on my feminist account and I felt unwelcome at times as an older, straight, non-gaming woman. But now that the GC subs have been taken down while the foulest porn subs stay up it just lays bare how hostile the whole site is to my personhood. Behind every meme or animal pic I see a porn-addled womanhater and it’s just not funny anymore. Reddit’s site structure is addictive and I’ve struggled at times to stay off it, but it doesn’t feel tempting anymore.

So thanks, TRAs, for killing my Reddit addiction. Hope you drown in your own spooge.