What are some fun and light-hearted subs that are women centric?

submitted by medium_tomato from (self.GenderCritical)

I love Gender Critical, but since the great purge I don't want to just come here to be upset and complain. So many good subreddits for women were destroyed (like the handmaid's tale, RIP). Also places like that one woman's knitting (crochet? I don't remember) group that we all loved reading about.

I know saidit is kind of full of other awful people we don't agree with and we can't ban them from commenting. But I think we should carve out some good women's subs here that aren't just about the shit we have to deal with. Maybe a new twoxchromosomes? Or something like thegirlsurvivalguide subreddit, where you can get help on small everyday things. I would suggest a new Handmaid's Tale sub but unfortunately now I just associate it with TIMs and the real events are getting creepier and too real by the day.

Are there any woman centric subs you miss from reddit? Are there any new subs here that can use more posting?

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[–]Sun_bear 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I would really like a radical feminist sub that wasn't all about the trans issues. Perhaps where talking about trans people was even banned! I suppose that wouldn't really be fun though...

I did enjoy good news for women. I'd like a place where we could share the achievements of incredible women.

[–]jet199 11 insightful - 4 fun11 insightful - 3 fun12 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

After Brexit made the reddit UK sub full of politics they opened up a casualUK sub where politics is banned. We could do something similar. Feminists not talking about feminism, religion or politics.

They did have a comedy Irish freemasons group called the Holy Order of the Lemon which admitted women. Maybe we should call it that.

[–]medium_tomato[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I love this idea! Except for completely banning talking about feminism, because I just cant stop viewing media from a feminist lens now.. not in a militant everything is problematic kind of way, but just including it in the discussion. For example how female centric shows changed over time, or making memes that joke about people acting like some new movie is the first ever to discover the female protagonist. I would love to be part of the Holy Order of the Lemon.

[–]missdaisycan 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds great.
I second NOT excluding radfem perspective. There were tremendous women in media to be remembered and emulated. Kathleen Hite (born 1917): the first female staff writer at CBS network. She is credited with writing 42 episodes of Gunsmoke, from 1955-1965 - the tight storied black and white episodes. As a teaser....

[–]censorshipment 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

TwoX or simply "Women" such as https://www.reddit.com/r/women (without the "Ask" prefix such as AskWomen). Anything related to women and our everyday lives, not political by default but more personal.

[–]worried19 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I quit Reddit's AskWomen after the purge. There were people I liked there, but I just couldn't excuse the atmosphere anymore.

I'd like to see something like that on Saidit, although I fear it would be taken over by unsavory types.

[–]medium_tomato[S] 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We have to stop hiding because of the unsavory types. It's either make our own way wading through those types of people or go back to censorship and being afraid to hurt people's feelings. There sadly is not an inbetween on the internet anymore... This site has far too much antisemitism, and as a jewish person that's pretty tough to read when other sites have been wiped clean of that nonsense for a long time. But i just roll my eyes and move on to upvote the better comments. I think more positive content being posted on saidit, will eventually drown out a lot of the trash. Hopefully...

[–]luckystar 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not explicitly for women only but in my experience Animal Crossing communities tend to be dominated by women and it's the definition of light hearted fun

[–]Nona_Biba 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ooh i didn't even think to check if saidit has an AC community! yay!

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

I made a knitting sub, but made it so that it doesn't show up in s/all. People who search for it, should find it though.

s/knitting

Crochet exists, too:

s/Crochet

GC_handmaidstale still exists on reddit, btw.