OVARIT SUCKS

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[–]anxietyaccount8 18 insightful - 2 fun18 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

So you guys are saying that GC spaces are heavily censored. I'm not 100% sure why you experienced this, but it may because the mods are trying to make sure they are mainly-radfem spaces. Our spaces face the threat of being taken over by conservative people. On GC twitter, I see conservative-minded people (with regards to gender) all the time, and it's really weird. They talk about masculinity and femininity as if they are objective and rigid concepts.

Some people seem to think GenderCritical is the "We Disagree With TRAs Club", and not the "We Are Critical Of Gender Club"

[–]GDC 10 insightful - 2 fun10 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

the mods are trying to make sure they are mainly-radfem spaces. Our spaces face the threat of being taken over by conservative people

Making GC a safespace is only a failing of our ideology. The founders of our country didn't need to silence dissenters when they decided to leave the british's country.

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

I usually agree that people should be allowed to express opinions that are outside the "party line", even if they are more unsavory, but I think we need to take into account how battles likes these are being fought online.

As others have said, one out of context print screen can easily sway the public opinion against you, nowadays. And, most people won't go out of their way to read the source material and see for themselves what was being said, especially not when the source material is being framed as coming from evil bigots who want to kill innocent people just for existing. So I can see the need to maintain a certain "order", even if it's not the most ideal way to foster (genuine) discussions.

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

One issue is that it seems that the conservative type that is anti-TRA but also anti-women's rights is much more numerous than us, GC feminists.

If we aren't careful enough to keep them out, they will drown our message to extinction.

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

My issue was having my threads deleted for being in the "wrong circles", when the "circles" themselves overlap heavily-- and when it's not even easy to pick which "circle" one "should" post a new thread on-- at least on mobile.

This particular article I posted in itself wasn't against the whole site's general belief system. I think that's what really sets me off. They're deleting entire threads that aren't totally irrelevant to the circles they're being posted to.

I posted an article about something related to China on the GC "circle". Posted it on mobile, wasn't sure which circle to use, knew that I had some of my threads deleted for being in the "wrong circle" before. Chose GC because I figured it would fit. There was also a post on there at one time about a twitter message China had put out that bragged about "re-educating" women in terms of "gender ideology", and I thought this seemed related to that.

I checked Ovarit to see what comments I had, there were many good ones, but I also realized my thread was deleted because "this belongs to XYZ circle instead!"

I post a comment on "circles" asking "why can't mods move a post?" or something to that effect. I've had some of my threads deleted before for being in the "wrong circle", but like I said before, so many of these "circles" overlap in terms of the topics they cover. It's not like "women" and "gender critical" and "women's liberation", etc., don't all sound similar or relevant to one another. I think once or twice I re-posted threads that were deleted by mods who told me I was posting to the "wrong circle". Once or twice I said, "screw this, I'm not going through the trouble of posting that again!". This time around, I got pissed.

One of the people who kept criticizing me in my post actually posted the SAME China-related article I did (in a different circle) on the SAME day my China thread was deleted!

One of the other posters who kept needling me was a mod on GC-- and was actually the same person who gave me the Ovarit invitation code in the first place!

I'm like "really"? It's like they don't want people starting threads or something. I could totally understand if it was a "duplicate" post, but that wasn't the reason I was given. It's like they just delete threads and use the "wrong circle" as an excuse for doing so.

[–]anxietyaccount8 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I agree that they should have deleted your post, that sounds really confusing. I just said this because some other people in the thread are talking about censorship.