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[–]censorshipment 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

As a 37 year old - black - American - mentally disordered - lesbian... 🤣🤣🤣 they are taking shit too far by pandering to someone like me. Ridiculous as fuck. Although I do enjoy seeing "majorities" being forced to be inclusive, but that's just the antagonist in me. I've always cringed at women's groups being white-centric and straight-centric. My 60 year old bisexual black mom hated that shit too during the 70s.

That moderator TheYellowRose calls herself an "advocate for the underrepresented of Reddit".

https://i.imgur.com/nIWm2fA.jpg

Anyway, I saw a post specifically for black women of AskWomen like a week ago... I bet it's still up.

Black women - what is your experience been like on dating apps? - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/ki47vl/black_women_what_is_your_experience_been_like_on/

Black Women of Reddit: What stereotype about us makes you the most upset? - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/k7v9v3/black_women_of_reddit_what_stereotype_about_us/

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think it's good to try to find ways to get people from "majority" groups to be more "inclusive" and aware that they do not represent the whole of human experience or even the norm, but this doesn't seem to be the way.

Re the threads you linked to, they make me wonder if they were started by black women - and how can one tell?

The rules stated in the OP of this thread appear to prohibit everyone - "majorities" and "minorities" alike - from asking questions of "majorities," but they don't appear to prohibit "majorities" from asking questions of "minorities." In fact, I just looked up the rules on r/AskWomen and see that they clearly state

Questions focusing on Minority Demographics are permitted.

So doesn't that mean people from "majority" groups can direct questions to entire "minority" groups, but "minority" individuals can't do the same to "majority" groups? That sounds fucked up. Or am I missing something?

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

So doesn't that mean people from "majority" groups can direct questions to entire "minority" groups, but "minority" individuals can't do the same to "majority" groups? That sounds fucked up. Or am I missing something?

It always amazes me that so many efforts at "inclusivity" end up reinforcing historical patterns of oppression.