/r/"best"of is an anti-men's rights sub

DougDante · 2014-04-19T19:36:11+00:00

This was pretty much known when they banned mensrights posts from being featured in their subreddit. Ideologues gonna ideologue.

DougDante · 2014-04-19T20:43:43+00:00

Action Opportunity: Ask /r/bestof Moderators to Unban Men's Rights Posts

URL:

http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fbestof

SUBJECT:

Please unban mensrights related posts

BODY:

The members of the reddit's men's rights community speak out against violence, discrimination, and injustice.

Consider checking out the reddit Men's Rights FAQ. Here are some quotes from our reddit community members from the FAQ:

"thought I had to share with the community that gave me a lot." - an abused boy.

"I was actually feeling very depressed and suicidal earlier .. Reading the posts I stumbled upon by accident here has dramatically improved my mood - one less thing that I don't feel so isolated on. Thanks for allowing this community to exist!"

"here you can find help and here we are all brothers and sisters that just want to make the world a better place."

"I want to stand up for mens rights. I grew up very oppressed, but never thought poorly of it that way. I always thought that being a man meant that I was supposed to be seen as a "pig" or worse."

"As a male survivor, I learned early on not to talk about it, because it makes me the butt of jokes and ridicule. It's assumed that I wanted it, it's assumed that I'm supposed to be some kind of insatiable horndog .. Thanks for being there to read a little bit of my f***** up story. Thanks for trying to do something about it. When I can't stand up and talk about it, I'm glad that there are people who will."

"For the last 4 years my Sons Mother has been out of our life. She lives nearby and chooses to have nothing to do with him. .. I have been battling [prejudice] since his mother left when he was 2 years old."

"I want to talk about how I was suckered into a hate movement .. men are the enemy .. Paranoia and irrational hatred drives radical feminism. .. [I left because] I couldn't stay that way with my integrity intact. "

"Hi Guys, I am [Liz] a journalist with a New York based digital news agency launching in two weeks .. For everyone who has responded: THANK YOU SO MUCH. Your stories are amazing and you are all brave to tell them."

", I am a 23 year old man who happens to be gay, I am out and proud but it does not define me. ... I want to say I'm overwhelmed with the positive reasponse, I did not now what to expect after what I was told about the MRM, I'm glad what I was told was wrong! I will be sticking around and contribute where I can."

"I am a gay man as well. The MRM is a movement I support."

Please visit our mens rights forum on reddit. If you want to join us, consider fighting for victims through our action opportunities in our reddit mractivism forum.

If you do not wish to join us, please do not censor our efforts to fight against violence, discrimination, and injustice.

Innocent_Pretzel · 2014-04-19T23:29:37+00:00

Format to use;

Subject; Please unban Men's Rights related posts

Message: Currently, it is not allowed to have a mensrights posts on /r/bestof. If it does happen, then it will get censored. Case and point here;

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/236xis/an_anticircumcision_post_made_it_to_front_page_of/

http://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/236xis/an_anticircumcision_post_made_it_to_front_page_of/cgu7dgh

This user's posts was censored from the topic, removed from the sub. Now, a few days after that happens (what I'm presuming is damage control since apparently Reddit's attention span is not that long), he was banned.

Censorship is a terrible thing. There is no outward symptoms, but internal conflict. By doing this, /r/bestof is preventing free speech and the free exercise of ideas. The post had the momentum, and it was censored. No rule link was ever given nor an explanation. In fact, I bet that even this message may be ignored. But do know what we will not back down, it will not be stopped.

Censorship is not the answer, discussion and rebuttal is instead the way to go. It internally disgusts me as I liked bestof, the interesting topics, the upvote brigade, the amorous display of emotion towards the topics at hand. Yet when apparently someone doesn't like something at hand, just because it's controversial, it will get banned. I unsubscribed, and urged others to do the same. Where does censorship stop?

Guess what? It doesn't. As I said before, censorship is a terrible and erroneous thing, disrupts communities, creates distrusts, and is horribly ineffective. Please unban Men's Rights related posts, and unban the users mentioned.

Kind regards, NAME

2014-04-19T20:17:23+00:00

Don't feed the trolls.

Title	/r/"best"of is an anti-men's rights sub
Author	unbannable9412
Upvotes	43
Comments	7
Date	April 19, 2014 6:34 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/23gauy/rbestof_is_an_antimens_rights_sub/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/MensRights/rbestof-is-an-anti-mens-rights-sub.1001519 https://theredarchive.com/post/1001519

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