Crosspost "[META] Another moratorium on MRA posts." from /r/Abortiondebate:

Hello everybody,

Effective from this point on, we have another moratorium on men's rights posts.

"Financial abortions" are not abortions. Legal abandonment of paternal responsibilities to a newborn is a subject appropriate for some other subreddit.

Reddit has a peculiar inability to discuss women's issues without focusing very strongly on how they affect men. Posts about female genital cutting turn into posts about circumcision, for example. If this is allowed to go on unchecked it turns into an echo chamber of men reassuring each other that they're the ones who really matter.

We put a moratorium on the subject a little while ago. After a while, we started to allow it again, and now it's a little too much. This is a purely subjective call and I'm open to your feedback*, but this is ultimately not a democracy. While I've discussed it with the other mods in the past, I'm doing this a little unilaterally at the moment and they might override me, but I doubt it.

If you dislike it, come back in a month or two and try again.

I'll also mention that, while there are obviously some users who push for this content more than others, nobody's pushed for it obnoxiously. While obviously I take issue with people who find a way to make every conversation about men, I don't want this post to come across as critical of their characters in any other way.

*Post has since been locked because I don't want to deal with MRA carpetbaggers. You can send feedback to the mods. If you've never participated in /r/abortiondebate before, you'll be ignored.

Update: Post is now unlocked. I think the brigading passed.

Posted by TrustedAdult | 15 August 2019 | Link