Is Reddit in general very feminist?

Playful-Reporter6577 · 2021-08-30T16:35:36+00:00

Reddit endorses misandrist hate speech and the admins refuse to do anything about it.

TheLostTinkerer · 2021-08-30T16:48:11+00:00

There are three contributing factors:

Internet in general is very neoliberal: Neoliberals have a feeling of an upper echelon space, believing themselves to be holier than thou. Which is why they generally do not listen to opposing viewpoints and beleive anyone who opposes them is a Christian conservative oldie who is good for nothing else.
The underdog feeling: Let aside the massive influence the movement has on social spheres, including academia, industry, culture, media and other circles, feminists often think they're the underdogs and that unless explicitly proven, everyone else is a tool of the OppressivePatriarchy™ . Which allows them to say things like Women can be patriarchial too and Men are harmed by patriarchy. Because the feeling of everyone else being wilfully ignorant kicks in hard. A more recognisable example would be the Linux vs Windows thing. Whereby Linux users automatically get a sort of superiority feeling( actually most of them don't, because they're intelligent enough to understand the differences) but feminists feel that they're doing a noble cause forwarding society when they're not.
Confirmation bias: It's very natural for us to assume that the man is the agressor, and you're statistically likely to be correct, as Jordan Peterson highlights in his trait assessment. That contributes to a bias that the bad guy is always a man and the good guy is always a woman. Derivatives of this include The Women are Wonderful effect and the Believe All Women aspects. It fails to recognize that me and you are individuals with very significanftly varying traits and rather boxes us together as men/women/whatever. And then attributes a bias. This is well known in the racial circle, but people aren't agree to admit to it in the gender space because the average individual doesn't bother out of disinterest.

Also many self identifying feminists(male and female) tend to get animus personalities, whereby any criticism of their held opinions are quickly considered criticism of their own personality and they search for ad hominem including "Have some empathy", "Check your privilege" "Have you even met a woman" or go for insults like incel, misognysist. Because it's very hard for them to grasp why someone would criticize such an underdog holy life-changing movement.

DrBunnyvanClit · 2021-08-30T16:58:47+00:00

Bro (and yes, I see you’re a woman), Reddit is a cesspool of fringe beliefs, anti-whatevers, and bs anonymity-fueled hate.

Front page is filled with endless amounts of crap comments that would otherwise be scorned irl - requests for genocide, demands for slavery, arguments in favor of physical violence, support for the Taliban, etc. This entire place is filled with pissy little shits that take everything personally while angrily typing on the laptop their mom bought them for Christmas.

Who do you think frequents the relationship advice subreddits anyway? I’d argue teens and women are their primary user base. Therefore, their life (in)experiences and their biases will seep into the commentary. Just like children primarily frequent AITA, which results in some fucking bizarre rulings.

There’s the classic trope that when you’re younger you’re a liberal, but when you’re older you’re a conservative. The reasoning makes sense - we become more worldly and knowledgeable, we understand nuance better, we recognize laziness as something apart from suffering due to circumstance, we make our own income and recognize the sweat that goes into it for the outcome (of which 30% is then taken), etc. You’ll find less touchy, eggshell subreddits by finding ones less frequented teenagers and very young adults. So… essentially no subreddit that appears on the front page.

Not that you’re at all asking me. I don’t follow this subreddit. “Anti-feminism” tends to just be “anti-radical feminism”, which, fine, yeah, radical feminism is just misandry trying to clothe itself in the garments of equality, and equality is what feminism really stands for (so call yourself a feminist or an equalist, it’s really all the same). But I have no interest in following the commentary of those individuals who refuse to recognize the difference. And the remaining members genuinely believe women are inferior, in which case I have no interest in following the commentary of those who have to rely on their gender to establish worth.

rustjelqing2 · 2021-08-30T17:00:52+00:00

Most problems with relationships evaporate once you elect to not have them. Once you go beyond a friend you have sex with there tends to be too much baggage.

Suggest that and you'll be Satan for sure. Maybe point out that all this complaining on the internet shows women aren't happy in relationships so you're really doing everyone a favor.

Funny thing is once I started to live like that I've only ever seen women on their very best behavior. Turns out that if you can be treated like a comfortable pair of slippers then you probably will be taken for granted. However if you aren't a guarantee you will be treated very well.

Hey_itsmeguys · 2021-08-30T17:24:44+00:00

I think this should answer your question.

authenticsimulacrum · 2021-08-30T16:34:11+00:00

The internet is.

akihonj · 2021-08-30T17:16:08+00:00

To answer your question, does a bear shit in the woods

CyclopeWarrior · 2021-08-30T22:47:03+00:00

It's not just reddit, but western society is built upon gynocentrism

Sir_Tactical · 2021-08-30T18:12:12+00:00

VestigialHead · 2021-08-31T01:39:14+00:00

Reddit is owned and run by extreme leftists. So yes.

Kindly-Town · 2021-08-31T05:25:31+00:00

Most men in general have feminist mindset. They show no regards to the same issues that men face but immediately get defensive to dismiss then when you say men are equally affected by the issues that women face.

BroJob_Biggs · 2021-08-31T08:47:22+00:00

Yes. Reddit in general is very retarded.

tabris51 · 2021-08-31T13:57:08+00:00

While the website is designed very anti-white male(i think its even in the rules that it doesn’t count offensive material if it is against men) users are something else. Last time I checked, there were more users in mensrights than feminism subs

rpsHD · 2021-08-31T04:08:45+00:00

Über*

RockmanXX · 2021-08-30T23:14:23+00:00

Is Reddit in general very ~~feminist~~ Progressive?

Yes

EDIT:Oh look, a snowflake downvoted me! Find me a progressive who isn't Feminist and i'll retract my comment. How about that?

Title	Is Reddit in general very feminist?
Author	Ronnattt
Upvotes	61
Comments	17
Date	August 30, 2021 4:18 PM UTC (4 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/AntiFeminists
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