Greetings. Since becoming a mod a few months ago I've seen countless examples of people getting banned for man-shaming, which is literally Rule #1 around here.

Let me explain, so if you get banned for man-shaming you won't be surprised and waste the mod's time asking why you got banned because you "Totally were not man-shaming, bro."

Here's the deal: you can go anywhere and criticize men. Anywhere. All the default subs allow it. The women's subs practically require it. Even other manosphere subs do it. Anyone who's spent more than a day in red-pill circles has encountered guys calling other guys "simps" or "betas" or "incels" for being insufficiently red-pilled in the writer's estimation.

We don't do that here.

Let me repeat that.

WE DON'T DO THAT HERE.

This is a place - maybe the only place - where man-shaming is not permitted. At all. And if you do it we'll probably toss you out without additional warning. Frankly, the fact that:

"NO SHAMING MEN FOR ANY REASON" is literally Rule #1 is already sufficient warning, but just in case you missed that,

THIS IS YOUR WARNING.

It's not that we don't think men ever screw up. We're all guys and we've all screwed up ourselves.

Lord knows I have. I cringe at some of the things I did for the attention and approval of women in my younger days.

But this place is different.

We are not anti-woman: we have frequent female commenters.

We are not even reflexively pro-male: we marvel that so many of our Carols fall for the "bad boys" who (predictably) leave them high and dry after they get what they want. I personally have no sympathy for those guys when they get baby-trapped, but I don't rag on them here. Why?... because...

What we are - HERE - is anti anti-male. We simply do not permit the shaming of men here. Period.

So if you find yourself blaming "simps" or "incels" for enabling the choices (some) women make, and/or trying to come across as the AMOG (Alpha Male Of the Group) by putting other men down, you're likely to find yourself with a ban.

Don't do it. And if you do it anyway, don't be surprised, or butthurt, or argumentative when one of us bans you. If you're a solid contributor and make a borderline error that results in a ban, message the mods and ask for an appeal to your ruling. Be prepared to explain yourself, because we're not mind readers. We also have better things to do than justify every call we have to make, and we also have better things to do than baby-sit any individual commenter to make sure you're coloring inside the lines. Calling us names (if I had a dollar for every time we get called "InCeLzzz" by somebody one of us banned... I'd have a lot of dollars), will just get you muted in addition to your ban, and turn a temporary ban into a permanent one as soon as one of us sees it in our modmail.

So in case it's not clear yet, once last time...

"NO SHAMING MEN FOR ANY REASON" is Rule #1 For a Reason.