Assertion: Feminists and TBP have become accustomed to victimhood and do anything they can to constantly play the victim because in today’s society: victimhood is power.

The main piece of evidence I’m going to use for this post is an incident 10 years ago on TwoXChromosomes. Yes I know 10 years is a while and yes I know reddit isn’t fully representative of society but the tactics that were employed then have only become more prevalent now and the rhetoric from the users on 2X is one that I see in wider society so…

https://np.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/26b8fz/its_been_two_weeks_since_twox_became_a_default/chpmak7/

Context for this is that 10 years ago, the mods of 2X made their sub default (appear on the main page as a default). The userbase was upset by this and claimed that it would increase the amount of harassment they got and that it would result in an influx of men into a women’s sub.

Now comes the point of my post: users of 2X decided to use the power of victimhood to get what they wanted. They started creating fake alt accounts and dumped a load of harassment and vitriol into TwoXchromosomes. Genuine 2X users used these alts to post harassing comments, send themselves harassing DMs and then screenshotted them to report the harassment so they could play the victim and point the finger at men.

This was of course up until Reddit Admins called them out:

“Some people have even been performing what's often referred to as a "false flag", where even though they're actually normally a contributing member of the subreddit, they've been creating alt accounts to make or upvote harassing comments/messages in order to make that issue seem more prevalent than it actually is.

We've received quite a few reports about users who have claimed to have received a large amount of harassment, but when we investigate we find that they've often never received any PMs at all, or only one message when they claim to have received many. Some people have even gone so far as creating alts to PM themselves with, so that they can take screenshots for "proof".”

The most astounding thing is that when they were called out, typical 2XC users refused to take accountability and tried the typical victimhood tactic. This line of reasoning was:

“What if the 2XC haters are making false reports to try and undermine our credibility? Could that happen?”

So what they are trying to do is say that it is a “false false flag attack” and that its actually men who are doing this to get 2X to look bad. Typical lack of accountability and bias against men and towards women.

How this relates to my assertion: 2XC users tried to use the power of victimhood to get what they wanted. To do this, they tried to fake and lie and manipulate themselves into looking like victims to get the sub taken off default. When their tactics were called out, they proved my point further by playing the victim to try and deflect accountability onto men. This just proves that victimhood is powerful and can get you what you want and that it can reduce accountability and deflect criticism. Thus feminists and TBP try to exploit it constantly (as we saw above).