It's so funny to me that Reddit is claiming TERFs were brigading different women's subs (like r/PCOS and r/pregnancy) like there weren't radfems in those subs to begin with

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[–]msteacherlady 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I remember people were worried the same phenomena would happen when the donald was quarantined. Maybe it's just because of where I hung out, but I really didn't see that happen. Apparently they just all fucked off to voat.

For us, GC was just a haven away from the gender police. Like, I was into embroidery and parenting before I found GC. Not the other way around. Like, oh shit, GC is gone, where am I going to complain about teething and share my finished object?

By the way, and I mentioned this in GC before, embroidery was hit by the trans agenda a few months ago. Someone made the shittiest embroidered grocery sack and it got way more attention than what is normal for embroidery traffic. I'm not just saying it was shitty to be petty. It was done very, very poorly. If anyone remembers the MUA sissy who got a bunch of praise for blue eye smudges, you know what I mean.

[–][deleted] 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Exactly. The threads I followed were NOT about trans issues because until now, I hadn’t been effected by any of them in a negative way.

Those of us in the US who are not in academia or who have pink collar low wage women’s work jobs, or who live in rural areas probably don’t encounter them very often.

The majority of threads were not about them. Sometimes there were bizarrely angry threads (right before the ban there were a ton) and I wonder if they were planted to “justify“ banning us.

I think GC was targeted also because high up trans activists were called out on there in the past for sexual assault, pedophilia, etc..

[–]Bogos 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah funny no one is calling for their death here and now on said it, when this is arguably the best representation of the radfems on r/GC and I’m guessing is less moderated. The “crazies” or bad behavior on r/GC may have well been instigators.

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

I was always suspicious of accounts that seemed to have extreme points of view on GC. Some women do in fact have some extreme views, as I could see by their consistent post histories. But a lot of them...it was hard to say. For a time there were a bunch of pretty mean memes on Troll GC that drew trans people as incredibly disgusting, the way an elementary school kid might draw stink lines around a drawing of their least favorite teacher. I found a lot of those to be fishy and not funny.

For the most part GC was incredibly reasonable, kind, and more inclusive than any other sub centered around an ideology, politics, or cause.

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I wouldn't be shocked if some of that was a plant. I did see an extensive thread on someone from twitter who had screenshots of the pro male collective discord conspiring to target "feminist" subs. This was like a two-prong attack by incels with and without dresses.