In case anyone didn't know, the current mods of /r/AskMen are going around calling their users "incel fucks", blaming "MGTOW" for people disliking the shit they're doing, and permabanning users for no reason. This is all related to their new policy of instantly banning anyone who points out to female users that the name of the subreddit is /AskMen.
They are parroting the very worst anti-male propaganda under the guise of stopping men from telling women on that subreddit that the subreddit exists to present the male perspective on things. Simply put: it is a subreddit for men to answer questions and voice their opinions. If a user's opinion is that men should be answering the questions, not women, then that is a perfectly valid opinion to have. It is not insulting or abusive to say that. But it is now an opinion which will get you permabanned from that sub instantly.
Feminists shut men out of their subs all the time. TwoX, AskWomen, any of those will shut you down or ban you if you're a man. But on a male-dominated subreddit, you are not even allowed to say that men should take priority.
No one is suggesting women should be banned outright from all discussion on that sub. But even saying that men should be answering the questions instead of women will get you permabanned from the sub. Which is utterly and completely unacceptable for a supposedly male-oriented subreddit.
It has become another sub where men's opinions are censored and diminished for the sake of not upsetting women. We cannot have our spaces defined by women. We cannot allow women's feelings to determine what we are allowed to say or talk about. To that end, we need to figure out another way for men to actually express themselves on this site. Otherwise, /AskMen is going to keep going the way of /MensLib, and pretty soon there'll be no spaces left for men to actually voice their opinions.
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Yea mate, this Is literally the mod that made the post. Are you surprised that the sub is going down hill?
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Any source or search terms for this? Anecdotally I tend to observe this, I'd just like to be able to substantiate it myself if it's been studied.
I think it's actually extremely harmful and the more people try shape discourse to protect women's feelings the less we are able to speak about candidly and eventually solve. It's also ironic that one of the debate-ending remarks a feminist can make to a male detractor is just to imply that his feelings are hurt, so his point is invalid, but a woman making an argument from a place of hurt feelings is unassailable.
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Kudos, thanks. It's interesting how in the paper it is still essentially implicit that this is only a problem because it can effect women negatively. I wonder if feminist bias in psychology will become controversial in our lifetimes. It's like how women and minorities were underrepresented in medical research in the past. Luckily psychology isn't exactly vital, so who gives a fuck if feminist dweeb "academics" dunk on men and high five over it. I don't actually believe modern policymaking is really informed by research like this in a substantial way.
It's also interesting that as context, it's stated there's a reliable positive correlation between benevolent and hostile sexism. I think people in this space tend to observe that: white knights, male feminists and "nice guys" are more likely to be gross towards women.
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Thank you for wasting your time.
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The foreskin_restoration sub is run by a bunch of degenerate coomers who just want to see cock pics and mod a bunch of porn subs.
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