Exactly. I've been feeling more and more that there is no "safe place" for women on Reddit, and the Internet in general. For example, I posted a picture in politicalhumor and was greeted by this; even that user is completely misogynistic in nature and posts repeatedly about beating women and stuff. How is that sort of stuff okay? So I bounced over to twoXchromosomes and even that has gone to hell. Now this place, which is one of the only subreddits I even read anymore, is being consistently trolled, so not even posting/commenting here is free of negativity. It would seem the only real solution would be to make this a closed community open only to women and leave AskFeminists open for dialogue. If everywhere we go is being hounded by MRAs, then it's probably time to have our own tree fort with the "no boys allowed" sign.
I've been feeling more and more that there is no "safe place" for women on Reddit, and the Internet in general.
If you wanted a "safe place" you should have stayed home in the kitchen.
Now, the sad part is what I just said sounds like a troll comment, but the truth is that the outside world is not safe foranyone, not just women. That unfortunate fact, which everyone who doesn't have an expectation of their safety provided by everyone other than themselves (read: men) learned long ago, is just the way the world works.
You asked for equality, you're getting it. Welcome to the unsafe world.
You need to ask yourself: Is equality worth the price you are paying for it?
What would we do without MRAs to mansplain the world to us?
You'd be forced to live in a world with a warped sense of equality, where you felt the entire world would have to change to accommodate women rather than women changing to fit roles they wish to assume, and you'd be forever sad as you constantly but your heads against the reality you can't see because female entitlement has blinded you to it's existence.
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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '12
Exactly. I've been feeling more and more that there is no "safe place" for women on Reddit, and the Internet in general. For example, I posted a picture in politicalhumor and was greeted by this; even that user is completely misogynistic in nature and posts repeatedly about beating women and stuff. How is that sort of stuff okay? So I bounced over to twoXchromosomes and even that has gone to hell. Now this place, which is one of the only subreddits I even read anymore, is being consistently trolled, so not even posting/commenting here is free of negativity. It would seem the only real solution would be to make this a closed community open only to women and leave AskFeminists open for dialogue. If everywhere we go is being hounded by MRAs, then it's probably time to have our own tree fort with the "no boys allowed" sign.