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Upvotes	Title	Category	Author	Subreddit	Date (UTC)
2	Women and the Common Life (Includes Men's studies and Gender Relations)	article	Solarspot	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/07/22 07:46 PM

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1	On the failed feminist colonisation of traditionally “male” geek spaces So, going from memory.. Elevatorgate is the original flair up. Summer of 2011. The controversy spins out for the next several months, in what would be called the Skeptichism. The Skeptichism includes maybe one, or maybe 5+ groups, insisting that the schism and conflict were purely attacks by the other camp. The Skeptichism also involves dragging the entire atheist community into a bitter fight over gender issues / politics. This had tamed a bit by early 2012 or so, feminist camp forms Atheism Pl…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/11/22 09:23 PM
2	On the failed feminist colonisation of traditionally “male” geek spaces I definitely found other people in 2014 who very much thought the Skeptichism and Elevatorgate were responsible for the Gamergate controversy forming. The mechanism for how the connection worked was always contested though, everybody seemed to blame their own boggeyman as the common factor. My own impression was one, two, or ten groups / partisan sides trying to win the Skeptichism by seizing control of news reporting, and then being partisan to that in a way that blindsided everybody else (outs…	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/11/22 07:51 PM
2	On the failed feminist colonisation of traditionally “male” geek spaces You remind me very much of the Skeptichism & Elevatorgate in 2011 and '12. I swear I saw our modern political order form as a completely non-normative back and forth within the Atheist movement at that time. And now it's overthrown the entire political zeitgeist, over a web of lies and echo-chambers that should have never addressed outside society. I keep imagining that I could find away to unravel it from the beginning. A decade on, I'm not at all sure what I would even be trying to unravel.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	14/11/22 06:12 AM
1	Women and the Common Life (Includes Men's studies and Gender Relations) I'm not certain this is inline with the zeitgeist of this subreddit, but it might be interesting anyways as an opinion (and review of one) on the context of gender relations and roles in the modern world.	/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates	27/07/22 07:49 PM

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