Is reddit becoming hostile towards women?

NotRoosterTeeth · 2015-07-15T13:35:00+00:00

No, it's people sick of having Feminism blasted at them 24/7. If you stand up to say somthing about it you are instantly shamed. People see this and if your not the one shouting Feminism you are generally against it either because of ideology, you don't agree with what they did (pulling fire alarm on Gay Equality meeting in Canada because there was 1 more guy than girl on the board) or you are sick in tired of the media and regular people shouting Feminist nonsense

BlueDoorFour · 2015-07-15T12:45:23+00:00

"Anti-feminism" translates to "anti-woman" for most people. It's incorrect, but that's what happens.

Maybe I don't venture beyond this sub all that much, but I have yet to see a growing hostility towards any demographic. Ideologies, for sure, (that's half the point of this sub), but not a demographic.

Ultramegasaurus · 2015-07-15T13:31:35+00:00

Many places on the internet seem anti-women simply because they lack the constant verbal ass-licking and preferential treatment women receive in real life.

Obligatory: There are no girls on the internet

2015-07-15T13:14:15+00:00

Not women, just feminists. But then so is society as well.

Lethn · 2015-07-15T14:20:16+00:00

TLDR: Anyone who disagrees with feminism or with a woman's viewpoint is a misogynist

DavidByron2 · 2015-07-15T15:40:37+00:00

No.

Is anywhere ever allowed to be anti-woman?

Wargame4life · 2015-07-15T18:14:17+00:00

Summarised in pictorial form

http://i.imgur.com/y00614p.jpg

Wargame4life · 2015-07-15T18:12:45+00:00

This is precisely what happens when you carve out little echo chambers that mollycoddle your inability to deal with dissenting opinion. you become infantalised and then start to stress that the world isnt some safe little hug box that doesnt pander to mummies little precious cupcake.

I really do wince with disgust at the absolute unashamed patheticness of these SJW "safe space" totting morons.

if you label opinions as "dangerous" and declare safe spaces i genuinely (sincerely) see you as a child/infant and pretty much completely ignore any and all things you have to say.

I dont like most of MRA, but by god do i respect their mod policy and its to the credit of its community it doesnt wallow in helpless infantalism

i raise my beer can to this subreddit, well done lads, don't end up like them.

Jasperkr672 · 2015-07-15T19:42:43+00:00

People are surprised that men are getting sick of feminists? Gee, how surprising.

2015-07-15T16:52:55+00:00

Is r/feminism worried about a mass ban?

copsgonnacop · 2015-07-15T15:05:41+00:00

Feminists consistently confuse anti-feminism with anti-women. They are two drastically different things.

Blutarg · 2015-07-15T15:39:40+00:00

2015-07-15T19:23:16+00:00

They think anti feminist means anti female and that anything critical of women is blasphemy .

Clockw0rk · 2015-07-15T20:47:46+00:00

No, reddit is not becoming anti-female. It's becoming anti-bullshit, which is good.

Little by little, more people are starting to realize that:

Men's issues are marginalized in politics and the media
Most of politics is controlled by money, not one party or another
Journalism is dead, the news media is advertising and sensationalism distracting from real issues
Feminism has lost all meaning by harboring hate-mongers and developing a dogma

As everyone else has said, anti-feminism is not the same as anti-female.

The problem seems to be that as people become more egalitarian, we're celebrating more people that do great things.. rather than wringing our hands about what's between their legs, the color of their skin, or who they're attracted to.

Modern feminism demands that women are acknowledged and praised at all times, and see lack of such as misogyny. This is not a theory, this was the result of a study on sexism.

The top comment of that feminism thread you linked is from some fuckwit claiming "most demographics for internet sub-cultures are 20 something white male, and the notion of feminism wouldn't fly around too much all things considered". Do you know what that is? Racist, sexist, ageist BULLSHIT.

If those are the kinds of people that think the internet is against them... Good. Because discrimination of all kinds needs to fuck right off.

baskandpurr · 2015-07-15T17:46:32+00:00

I think Reddit is becoming gradually more pro-men's rights and that is interpreted as hostile to women. I see ideas that are common in this sub being repeated more often in other areas of reddit. This is one of the difficulties men face, women compete for attention and favour. To give some of that to men (or any other group) is going to be seen as insulting and therefore hostile. In some ways the MRM is trying to change female attitudes as well as change society's expectation of men.

GenderNeutralLanguag · 2015-07-15T13:09:18+00:00

You see, Women are people. We should treat women like people. But according to feminism we shouldn't treat women like just any people. We need to treat women like retarded 12 year olds with emotional problems. Retarded 12 year olds with emotional problems are people, just like women are people.

The reality isn't that reddit and other internet spaces spaces are anti-woman, but that these spaces are pro - treating women like fully functional adults with agency. There is nothing more terrifying to feminists than being treated as fully functional adults with agency.

2015-07-15T18:11:13+00:00

Women who can handle that shit are women who belong. If most women can't, tough titties. Reddit comprises some of the most Darwinian communities on the web. If men are allowed, they will build homosocial communities, and those who will find welcome there will be those whose interests, humor, and overall socializing style are compatible with male homosociality. A lot of women can handle that (because they share many of the attitudes that appear merely anti-woman when men express them) and, as we see from manginas, a lot of men cannot.

azazelcrowley · 2015-07-15T20:35:33+00:00

Fuck it, you know what?

Yeh it's probably got a little more hostile to women. And that's fucking terrible, because really, the people talking shit about women should be pissed at feminists. If it weren't for feminists continually pretending that they represent women, women wouldn't have to put up with it. But yeh, probably some people talk shit about women instead of feminists, and that should stop.

But that's not really an endemic problem, I don't think. I'd be happy to be told otherwise by a non-feminist. Because feminists have all but stated time and time again that they think rejecting their weird little cult means you are anti-women, when that's simply not the case, so I seriously doubt both their ability to gauge and honesty to accurately report the level of hostility to women present on reddit.

energyinmotion · 2015-07-15T22:09:46+00:00

I don't think reddit is becoming hostile to women. I think the root of the problem is feminism itself and the gross misunderstanding of what it stands for, and what it's actually being used for in today's society. If Nixon* were still here he'd say that feminism is a communist plot to over throw America and our way of life (whatever that means).

*No I don't like Nixon or his party.

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ralphswanson · 2015-07-15T21:26:35+00:00

Feminists love to portray different viewpoints as women-hating. Yes, I hate much of feminism because of the man-hating. Many feminist schools are proud of their misandry; others hide it with academic-sounding terms like patriarchy or systemic misogyny. Men are tolerated if they support this hatred, but even then they are told to keep silent. In contrast, MRAs respect women. Equality-seeking women, such as Karen Straugham, Typhonblue and Dr. Hoff-Sommers are prominent voices here. Yet feminists continually claim MR is misogyny.

HeroicPopsicle · 2015-07-15T21:34:48+00:00

While i dont think its as massive as the /r/feminism claims it to be, I have to agree that there are some people really turning to woman hating.

Now dont get me wrong, i think /r/feminism is just a big hugbox/echo chamber of idology, i dislike the extremist as much as the other person. But some are taking these anti-feminist beliefs and spraying them on every female out there, kinda like the witch trials. There are some feminists (some ive actually met in person too) who fill that 'no true scottman' fallacy of actually wanting equality between everyone (Male rape is important, prision is wack, military draft, you name it, would actually want to call them equalitarians but they like to call themselves 'real feminists'), and even these people get hated upon due to the rampant anti-feminism thats going on over the internet.

So a vague yes. I think some parts of reddit have turned every woman who mentions feminism into a 'witch', regardless of how hardcore they are or not. Is it as bad as formentioned subreddit? No, i dont think so. But its there, lurking in the background due to the hate the 'tumblr'-esque feminists has planted.

Im expecting some downvotes due to this but.

2015-07-16T03:31:42+00:00

Hostile towards women, if you mean that they aren't coddled and shielded from anything offensive, then yes. Otherwise it seems that it is more anti-men. You can't mention anything about how something is anti-male without a lot of comments calling you a shitlord, ect.

Though I do see some progress, there do seem to be a few more post calling out the BS, but we still have a long way to go.

sillymod · 2015-07-17T14:32:18+00:00

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Title	Is reddit becoming hostile towards women?
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Date	July 15, 2015 12:26 PM UTC (11 years ago)
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