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[–]oatcake 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Just signed up! Actually feeling great about this, and the other new subs on this site. I had been reading r/GC for months now and it was keeping me sane. Had only just started posting on GCguys, and noticed it was gone today. Oh well, took me a while to admit but yeah - Reddit hates women. I had the temerity to defend JKR on the pro-wrestling sub (!) and got swamped with downvotes and misinformation, but I'm pretty sure another handful of people will have seen that conversation and started to wonder.

Gonna delete the app as I saw mentioned here they get money through ads that way. Probably gonna keep my account to retain the option of asking difficult questions whenever TRA bollocks rears its head in totally unrelated discussions.

Keep doing what you're doing everybody, I learned so, so much after stumbling upon GC.

[–]StupidHappyPancakes 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Ah, so you stuck your neck out in that massive 800 post pro-trans debacle on r/squaredcircle too? I cannot believe that you can't even just go to talk about something as mindless and silly as professional wrestling without being punished for wrongthink. I think it's going to keep getting worse there; I suspected it when they did that 24 shutdown for BLM and used language that made me think they'd be seriously cracking down on policing beliefs now.

And that whole post was just toxic. All those miserable lies being promulgated about JKR even though NOBODY had actually read anything she had said that is supposedly so "transphobic." I don't know if you made it through the whole massive thread, but there was one TIM in particular who was REALLY pissing me off by repeatedly telling everyone that there are NO physical differences between males and females in terms of strength or other physical abilities.

[–]oatcake 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Haha, I recognise your name so I definitely upvoted you. I took a new, food-based name for this site. Still gonna keep my old username on Reddit to promote hateful terf-ideology whenever I get sufficiently bothered at TRA stuff over there. Yeah, that thread was ridiculous. I consider myself a full-on wrestling nerd for, like, my whole life, and I had never even heard of this guy who the thread was ostensibly about - he's certainly never hit the front page for any of his matches. Yet as soon as he rails against 'transphobia' the thread hits the top spot? Weird. Sums up that sub. Full of people who can barely think for themselves, so eager to hit the right note. How else to explain the constant barrage of say-nothing, add-nothing comments which receive hundreds of upvotes? How else to explain boring Twitter comments which constantly hit the top of the page?

I'll admit to being a bit of a sad bastard in that I have spent way too much time on that sub over the years (hey, there's been a lot of good humour as well, to be fair). The number of times you see the exact same comment chains when certain topics are brought up - think of literally any time great Brock Lesnar matches are mentioned and the same, exact sequence regarding his disappointing match with Dean Ambrose follows like clockwork. There's a lot of brainless stuff over there, and there's always like a 50% chance a simple joke will land or go completely over people's heads.

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

Hi. Check my profile. I started a pro wrestling sub here. There's not much here, but it could be the start of something good. Feel free to drop by and you can also contribute if you like. I've quit Reddit for good, so I'm going to add the content I want to see.