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[–]verystablegenius 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

you’re pointing out a really serious issue in GC circles. i feel like it’s very hiveminded and they’ll mercilessly call you out for what they believe to be wrong think. they’re also rude as fuck. this is coming from someone who’s GC. there are som serious hardcore feminists in there that want to constrict thought and speech. no better than reddit.

[–]akkordeonplayer[S] 15 insightful - 2 fun15 insightful - 1 fun16 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The way in which they kept implying that I was dumb, incapable of following rules, or that I shouldn't expect any better from them "because reddit does the same thing", was infuriating... and one of the people needling me was the same person who sent me the invite code in the first place!!!

If the truth was "we don't have the capability to move posts to another circle yet", that would've been acceptable-- instead I was attacked.

Then I see one of the other major posters who kept arguing with me was both a STEMlord in her own right, and reposted the SAME article that I had posted (which was deleted, had 37 comments and tons of upvotes)... it's like there's this weird gatekeeping/censorship by wealthy women/women in programming and other high paying jobs or something. I can't really put my finger on it. This is probably part of what many women of color complain about when it comes to GC being unfriendly to them. Perhaps there is an income/education/youth related bias among them or something? Their recognition of the issues the majority of women face-- which is low income, parental burdens, etc., seems to fly over their heads. I remember being turned off by the focus on TIMs back in the old reddit GC because as a low-income woman, I rarely ever encountered them in the first place. To me I felt "this must be an issue wealthier women in better paying jobs must face, or much younger women face, because I never see TIMs in my line of work-- it must be young women in college or women in high paying jobs who have to deal with them!" If anything, I was more focused on the economic discrimination and sexual exploitation of women, pornography, etc. when it came to the old reddit sub. Seeing GC get banned and realizing how many gender extremists were in admin roles on reddit is what made me "peak".

Censorship is off the charts right now when it comes to women's issues. Your average everyday woman, earning piss poor wages, overburdened by domestic drudgery, doesn't have the time or inclination to READ tons of GC books or to read the specific micromanaging rules for every single "ovarit circle" before posting a damn post. I'm certain women who join Ovarit are getting turned off to the site by having their threads deleted for ridiculous reasons. Seriously, most of us are tired of being censored on platforms.

There was another poster who claimed she felt compelled to delete her parenting related post because she inquired about how she should raise her son-- apparently she was attacked by other posters? Someone else was branded a racist for questioning a meme? What is going on?

Again, here we see your "average" woman-- probably low income, a parent, not deeply well versed in "gender critical" ideology, being attacked for a question. How do they expect to attract people if they expect such purity? Not everyone is a single, STEMming, wealthy woman with a masters degree... many of us have "made mistakes", don't have the time for endless deep reading on politics, or have become parents of sons.

It doesn't feel like this is "the time" for micromanaging gatekeeping when it comes to social media platforms dedicated to women's rights (and bucking the gender ideology trend which directly targets children!!!). We need all the help we can get from all types of women... do they not realize this?

(Obviously, deleting troll comments that are meant to provoke people or make the whole site look bad makes sense, but this isn't what I'm referring to.)

[–]GDC 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Then I see one of the other major posters who kept arguing with me was both a STEMlord in her own right, and reposted the SAME article that I had posted (which was deleted, had 37 comments and tons of upvotes)... it's like there's this weird gatekeeping/censorship by wealthy women/women in programming and other high paying jobs or something. I can't really put my finger on it.

This happened with some of the supermods on reddit. there was one of them who was infamous for doing it, and lots of people think he was working for media companies to do it.

They will delete popular posts and then repost themselves for higher imaginary numbers. The biggest name was u/Boobgal? or something like that.

[–]DiscoStegosaurus 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Gallowboob, I think. Lol

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

gallowboob?

[–]hellsbells76 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yep. That's why I don't go over there very much. They shut down reasonable debate and I agree, can be so on unnecessarily rude..

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

OK, thanks. It's good to know I'm not "crazy" or alone in this assessment, if you get what I mean.