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[–]msteacherlady 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Here is my brief experience with such ideology as it appeared on GC.

Some weirdo on there told me that if i didn't give my 2 year old son a special soy diet in order to manipulate his hormone levels, that he would become a rapist. The comment was immediately downvoted by others and someone even replied to chastise the person. I didn't report it, but someone did and within a short period of time the comment had been removed by mods.

In general I keep my interest in men's issues (am wife to a man and mother of a son, and also care about my male students) out of feminist spaces because it ain't that lens' problem and I also understand and respect some women's need for separatism. I think within that sphere there are some real fuckin' weirdos though. Like, who would, especially when we criticize HRT for young people, tell a mother to biohack her child? Reminds me of Jenny McCarthy eschewing vaccinations and claiming diet cured her kid's autism. But from what I see, the real weirdos aren't tolerated. I hope I don't see a rallying cry for women to abort their male children coming from this corner of feminism.

[–]weakfantasy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

oh, the soy meme. Definitely a troll.

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

I would agree but there's a couple of things that make me think not. Firstly, she didn't just give a pithy reply of "lulz why don't you make youre son a soy boi".She described an actual diet and talked specifically about hormones. Secondly, I did check out her post history to see if she really was troll. I mean, what other weirdo besides a TRA would feel like hormone manipulation is a solution? Well, her posts were consistently feminist, and surprisingly, not even that unreasonable most of the time.

[–]emissch[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

thanks for the perspective, and I'm glad to hear that fringe views got dealt with. Like we can't as a community get so far off base that we lose touch with reality. that's what happened with TRA, I don't want it to happen here.