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[–]jet199 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

I think you are suffering from a little conformation bias.

I saw a fair few posts on GC of women saying they would abort a male fetus and they were upvoted and any comments which disagreed were down voted to oblivion. Not only that but on both GC and pinkpill you'd see comments under unrelated posts saying stuff like "and this is why I'll never be ashamed to say I'd abort a male fetus. It makes me mad how they all got pissed off when that post got shared that time. We were right." Then you have other separatist posts on pp and bp saying "women can't moan about how men treat them when they continue to house them in their wombs and increase the population of rapists."

I really don't think you could of missed all this stuff unless you were being purposely blind to it.

There is a big problem with separatists trying to create a purity spiral which will exclude most women and turn GC into a ideological cult. Their stuff doesn't get either downvoted or reported because people just upvote on "men bad" most of the time.

[–]DarthVelma 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Given the millions of missing women and girls in this world due to aborting female fetuses, female infanticide, and femicide generally that most people don't seem to give one tiny shit about...I don't see why a handful of radical feminists not wanting to have male children is treated like the world's greatest crime.

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

I think there are two things here. Firstly, someone personally not wanting a child of a certain sex (I think this is sexism, and is somewhat morally objectionable, but I also think that bodily autonomy simply trumps other values in this case). This isn't a crime, though it certainly does give fuel to people who say feminists hate men. I daresay they would say this regardless of what we write about, however.

The second thing is calling for, attempting, or legislating in a way that allows for a systematic reduction of one sex. The latter seems relevantly similar to genocide, in my view. I do consider it a major moral outrage this this is happening to girls in some parts of the world, and I would strenuously object to any suggestions that the same thing be done to boys.

[–][deleted] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Even if some GC people are hardcore, I don't see them as nearly as vitriolic as the misogynistic set. I have yet to hear about a GC woman going on a shooting spree in a men's gym.

[–]Spikygrasspod 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We do seem to be held to a higher standard, don't we? And I do suspect there are some people who go looking for the most radical views, then use these to characterise all of us.

[–]Moonwalker777 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes I do remember seeing this from time to time. I think that it’s a classy case of fighting fire with fire, but MRA’s were making it seem like this was what the sub was centred around

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

I am hardly being purposefully blind, I came here to ask. I think it's more likely you were on GC for longer than me.

The tendency toward ideological conformity is a good reason to get off the internet every once in a while, I guess.