Feminist subreddit made new default

[deleted] · Wed May 7 23:06:49 2014 UTC

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rocketskates84 · 2014-05-07T23:46:58+00:00

Good for them. No shits given here. Why does it bother you so much?

mojo_magnifico · 2014-05-08T03:26:33+00:00

Get this Fox News-style fear mongering out of here.

Truly disappointed at how emotionally invested yall are in fucking reddit defaults. Who gives a shit? Also, I just visited /r/TwoXChromosomes for the first time and it does not strike me as feminist in any right.

Sidebar rules say

Respect: No hatred, bigotry, assholery, utter idiocy, misogyny, misandry
No tactless posts generalising gender. We are a welcoming community. Rights of all genders are supported here.

bradyo2 · 2014-05-07T21:00:13+00:00

Is this a joke? I'm lost for words as to why this is a default sub?

I've just been on their front page, and a poll asking "should TwoX be a default subreddit" is up.

8% have said yes 67% have said no.

I can only assume it was handpicked by the admins to indoctrinate new Redditors with feminism and attract more women to the site.

I think you're correct, and it's an admin's agenda putting this as a default, however, it will make no difference to TRP. Even if it did somehow take the sub down, there are plenty of other websites which can be used as TRP's replacement home. We'll be fine.

GuildedCasket · 2014-05-08T17:17:06+00:00

It's a place for women to talk about women stuff that they may feel uncomfortable talking about anywhere else. It's a bit weird they got defaulted, as the people there definitely didn't want that as it increases the influx of detractors, but it's not like the subreddit is unworthy or trashy or any number of things people have said: it just caters to women's issues, like TRP caters to a certain kind of men's issues, except much less controversially and more universally (discussing medical problems specific to women as well as things related to sex). What is the harm if one female focused subreddit is defaulted, really? Why do you care at all? It's not like they defaulted SRS.

Besides, if you look at lots of the posts it's not even radically feminist: a recent post about a rape case that was posted was shot down because the case clearly wasn't rape, there was a woman asking how to make her wedding as cheap as possible, and there was someone ranting about how one night stands do not equal rape. This is nowhere near the "end" of RP or reddit.

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InfraredPillpusher · 2014-05-07T20:36:01+00:00

From a post titled "Hey hormones. Chill the eff out" regarding wanting babies after period (ovulation), despite otherwise regularly not wanting children

This frenzy only lasts about four days, and then after that I am insanely grateful that I have the IUD because I do not know what I would do if I did not have that level of contraceptive protection. Poking holes in condoms, "forgetting" to take a pill. My body even goes so far as to think "Hey you, random good looking man who is not my husband! You are a great candidate to imagine you impregnating me!" I would never cheat on my husband, but this brain is being held captive by my uterus and it's only demand is to be filled with BABY.

GayLubeOil · 2014-05-07T21:57:49+00:00

Reddit has to do what Reddit has to do to be profitable. Feminists love to blog about their hurt mad feels and how the government should protect them. If reddit can attract more subscribers with stupid shit like #banbossy they definetly should. The more Feminism is forcefully pushed on people the more some will rebel and come here.

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Aalewis__ · 2014-05-07T22:44:10+00:00

Imagine how much butthurt there would be if this sub was made a default.

serialstitcher · 2014-05-07T22:06:12+00:00

This not a big deal or a sign of a feminist bias conspiracy. They doubled the number of defaults from 25 to 50. Do you really expect a few stinkers to not be in 50 subreddits? I definitely can't name 50 high quality TV channels out of all I have ever seen. They basically added a mediocre female gossip reddit to their package, again similar to cable practices. If "the view" is on TV, just change the damn channel.

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rednukleus · Thu May 8 1:17:20 2014 UTC

Wow, what a big deal this is. What a problem this presents for us. Oh wait. You're all being a bunch of butthurt whiners over nothing -- a harmless ladies subreddit where girls on the internet can chill. My mistake.

[deleted] · 2014-05-08T01:55:08+00:00

The reddit admins are trying to make reddit appeal to new usergroups. Historically, women haven't been very interested in reddit. /r/TwoXChromosomes is one of the most popular subreddits for women.

This is really pretty obvious.

UnamusedPunk · 2014-05-08T00:23:22+00:00

Reddit dropped its frame and failed the shit test.

nrokchi · 2014-05-07T23:55:58+00:00

In the event it was handpicked, I believe a more reasonable explanation would be that it was chosen by an individual or two, not a decision of an overwhelming number of moderators or administrators. Someone made a case for it, was convincing, and so it was done.

People will read it, form the own opinion, and move on. That sub is not a gold mine of anti-men or neo-feminist propaganda. For example, a quick look over there during the writing of the comment has posts such as: "Bought pregnancy tests at the dollar store... cashier was rude!", "How can we get this wonderful community taken off default?", "Hey hormones. Chill the eff out.", and "Rape =/= One Night Stand. A short rant.".

So, before you lose your shit over some anti-feminism hysteria, take a second to remember some of the core tenants of TRP: be cool, be rational, and be just.

TheRedTrader · 2014-05-08T13:00:43+00:00

Is TwoX even feminist? It doesn't seem so to me, it seems like a female space with at least a significant minority (perhaps a majority?) who are actively opposing default status.

kommissar_chaR · 2014-05-07T23:44:33+00:00

I think you give the admins too much credit. I think it's a ploy to increase the female user base. Nothing more, nothing less.

awfukbye · 2014-05-08T03:15:49+00:00

And not a single f.k was given that day

slcjosh · 2014-05-08T18:49:29+00:00

Who gives a shit.

barneygumbled · 2014-05-08T14:42:50+00:00

The highest comment on the thread at the moment is how to get out of default...Looks like their own community doesn't want it.

Methinks a small handful of influential members have pressed for this.

aslutrifles · 2014-05-07T23:16:45+00:00

/r/mensrights (with far more subscribers) used to be a default sub and lost default status just because it wasn't feministic enough.

[deleted] · 2014-05-08T03:13:41+00:00

Is panicking about the Internet very Red Pill?

[deleted] · 2014-05-08T08:48:06+00:00

Do we really care though ? Many of the 2x members also see this as a bad thing, look at this as an interesting social experiment.

skimdit · 2014-05-08T00:14:45+00:00

That's fine. After all, sunlight is the best disinfectant.

Zackcid · 2014-05-07T22:55:49+00:00

R.I.P. to the other thread one of our brothers posted about this earlier today. It was brigaded to oblivion and ceased to exist on our front page. I'm happy this thread has positive karma total, so that it can actually be seen. http://redditlog.com/snapshots/536929 (previous thread)

7r1993rWarn1n9 · 2014-05-07T22:24:04+00:00

I can only assume it was handpicked by the admins to indoctrinate new Redditors with feminism and attract more women to the site.

Nah, I doubt most of them care about that. It's probably more about trying to present a much maligned site as progressive and tolerant and all that. Basic PR stuff.

MachiavellianRed · 2014-05-08T00:21:36+00:00

Do you see trouble brewing?

I always see the potential for trouble to brew.

Is Reddit turning into Tumblr?

No, you could easily spin that and say due to the reputation reddit is getting because of TRP, they've done that to clean off some of the mud that TRP has dirtied their reputation with. There's no need to look into these things and speculate, we can all manipulate a point to make something look like something as I have just done, most likely they want to retain a female demographic to exploit for ad revenue.

And if so, should TRP have a lifeboat on another site that we can turn to when this sub is eventually taken down?

TRP should have a lifeboat. Bookmark http://puerarchy.com and follow endorsed contributors on twitter if you want a contingency plan. If ECs wanna reply here with their TRP social media to put some minds at rest, do so.

Aweshocked · 2014-05-08T02:18:33+00:00

I'm subbed to this sub reddit because I find you guys entertaining

rlaptop7 · 2014-05-07T23:47:40+00:00

Hang on. The results of their own poll had a overwhelmingly "no" slant the entire time that it was up.

http://www.poll-maker.com/results93952xc07440Ca-4#tab-5

It sounds as though /2x doesn't even take their own advice.

Marbles73089 · 2014-05-08T08:35:07+00:00

Question: why should any red piller be concerned at all? Why should we give a shit whats been made a default subreddit?

[deleted] · 2014-05-08T23:26:31+00:00

You should have a life boat on another site. In fact just go there now. I assure you the people on reddit without mommy issues will not be bothered by your migration.

elition · 2014-05-08T01:34:49+00:00

Man, fuck Reddit. Back to /pol/ for me

ohsweetword · 2014-05-07T23:56:11+00:00

Reddit is a hotbed of feminist control and beta minders. No surprise there.

[deleted] · 2014-05-08T00:25:35+00:00

Me, I don't go on the front page to begin with. Either way, it doesn't bother me.

binrobinro · 2014-05-08T02:05:21+00:00

Good. We needed more humor in the default subreddits.

ibuprofiend · 2014-05-07T21:06:02+00:00

even their trashy subreddit doesn't want to be default rofl. some poll on their shithole (could barely find it do to the miserable design) says 85% of them don't want to be default.

thankful to have trp mods that care about our community. would really suck to not only be a bluepill moron but then belong to a sellout community run but morons.

to answer your question, we don't need to lifeboat to another place just because reddit is run by and populated with bluepills, betas, and white knights. wanna know why? because this isn't a reddit thing. this is a world thing. the world is populated with these kinds of people and you'd be a fool to think you can just avoid it forever.

Strongproudwoman · 2014-05-07T21:28:31+00:00

I wouldn't worry about this. If they want more emasculated men and men fall for this stuff so be it. I'm going to keep on marching to my beat.

swaggertank · 2014-05-18T04:33:51+00:00

This is blasphemy!

I_am_jacks_reddit · 2014-06-20T11:48:01+00:00

I personally don't see the problem. If women need some place to go to talk to each other about women shit then that's fine with me. I think it's good it's a default because it's going to get a lot of the feminists that are new to the site to post shit in their instead of in AskReddit or another super popular sub.

Offensive_Brute · 2014-05-07T22:16:37+00:00

That subs not so bad. There are some pretty cool down to earth chicks there. They are usually drowned out by the fat loudmouth short haired uggos, but they are still there. They identify as feminists, but they are the kinda feminists that find fullfillment in staying home, raising kids, sucking dick, and baking.

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[deleted] · 2014-05-07T23:39:41+00:00

I'm ok with it. Everyone knows what low-quality trash hits the default subs.

duckducklandwhale · 2014-05-08T00:06:34+00:00

Well duh. Can you not spot the feminism friendly admins? (Just informed they actually removed MensRight as default back in the day because feminists complained loud/persistent enough). It's quite obvious especially when you consider something like SRS is still around despite breaking rules via blatant doxxing and general site disruption similar to /r/GameOfTrolls. The rest of the site is headed towards feminization and promoting beta traits. All we need to do is make sure masculinity and personal commitment to it stays strong and we'll ride it out. Though, to be honest I used to be especially progressive and pro-feminism but their insanity, childishness to opposing viewpoints, and chide police nature have actually made me fairly against it.

However they did pick some stupid ass subs to be default though other than that one.

slcjosh · 2014-05-08T18:43:17+00:00

You guys are so incredible paranoid and fixated on this evil feminist conspiracy it's mindboggling...

ibuprofiend · 2014-05-08T01:52:24+00:00

What's wrong with feminism? Just asking, not making any sort of statement.

Edit: Annnd downvotes. If you want to promote discussion, then try not to mute the person asking questions.

jacobman · 2014-05-07T23:24:39+00:00

No male, which is the majority of reddits user base, wants to see posts about vaginal bleeding and the like. 2X is specifically for women's problems and has no business being a default subreddit.

SchrodingersRapist · 2014-05-08T02:33:49+00:00

Is Reddit turning into Tumblr?

Hasn't it been Tumblr for quite a while?

poopyhitlerballs · 2014-05-08T03:31:22+00:00

It's Conquests second law: "Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing."

Ucanthandledatruth · 2014-05-07T23:59:38+00:00

Reddit is a private company. They can do what they want.

IAMA 14 year old and I plan to vote for the woman when I can vote, amirite?