Ovarit is just as guilty of random censorship as reddit. What happened?

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[–]bungalow 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I just joined Saidit now for this exact reason - many of my comments on Ovarit were censored because I argued against liberal feminism... I specifically created an account on Ovarit as I was under the impression that it was a space for radical feminist thought -- not libfem pandering. You can literally go to any other mainstream feminist site if you want liberal feminist thought.

People there get incredibly touchy over any form of disagreement and some of the women there will tattle tell on you for the most trivial things. I was part of r/GC for a while and never experienced this kind of heavy-handed censorship especially regarding opinions that defend radical feminism. So utterly disappointing. I had heard about their censorship but hadn't realized how pervasive it was until they deleted my posts.

Also, they love to fawn over their male posters over there. Which is another concerning trend. I'm with you there -- it's either toe the line, or get censored.

[–]JustWhy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

That's so surprising to hear about because I actually felt I was not radical enough for Ovarit. For example I don't believe that black women in western countries have it the worst ever and everyone else needs to shut up, and I don't believe in alienating male allies. I don't agree with fawning over male posters. I actually thought men weren't allowed on Ovarit?

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

Oh wow! I appreciate your different outlook (and I do agree with some of your points) -- kinda proves how heavy-handed and uneven their censorship has been.

Yeah, men are allowed. It's outlined in their guidelines so that's fine but in the past week alone there's been an influx in male posters and the ladies give them such over the top, "validating" reactions, a very similar reaction to when people come "out." Just the other day there was a trans identified man in there who made a post expressing interest in creating a sub for both both GC women and trans variant people... It eventually got taken down, but it did garner some interest.

I actually like ideologically diverse spaces -- and I knew that Ovarit wasn't primarily a radfem space, but I didn't think that it would actively silence radfem thought in order to protect their incredibly sensitive users.

My posts got deleted, but the long and short of it is that I didn't post anything violating the terms. I deleted my account there. I don't ever want to be a part of that type of censorship again, especially in the company of fragile snowflakes who refuse to think critically.

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

What kind of posts did they delete?

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

I criticized a political liberal feminist (called her a faux feminist) and included sources as to why she's not a feminist. In turn I was told I was right-wing, a misogynist, etc. despite being firmly in the left-wing camp (I vote Green for god's sake lol). I proceeded to provide more sources, and this poster decided to tattle tell on me to the mod for "attacking her." They are so dramatic.

Ironically, this type of personal attack has me feeling more sympathetic to conservatives than I've ever felt before. They're just alienating people of all political affiliations at this point.

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

They seem censor happy. Multiple threads I posted were deleted for no obvious reason, except they were supposedly in the "wrong circle". The circle names themselves seriously overlap, and I think it's ridiculous they'd delete entire threads with tons of votes and comments simply because it's in the "wrong circle". Do they not want people to post new threads? I'm sure I'm not the only one who's been put off from making new posts because their prior ones were deleted for no obvious reason.

When I questioned this, I was attacked by mods, who implied I was stupid, that I was a "rule breaker", that I had no right to question this practice.

And I think it just flipped a switch in me. I recall other "good threads" suddenly disappearing, and now I realize they were just nuked entirely. I'm tired tired tired of being CENSORED for the most ridiculous reasons on social media and THEN being accused of being "too dull" to understand why.