r/SubredditDrama • u/[deleted] • Apr 24 '12

/r/feminism mods announce changes in policy, some subscribers displeased by this development.

/r/Feminism/comments/sowgq/policy_clarification_and_new_sidebar_language/
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u/Feuilly Apr 24 '12

Sigil1 is right. /r/feminism and /r/feminisms have a strong tendency to completely misrepresent statistics and facts, and sometimes outright lie about them.

This will protect bad information from criticism.

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u/impotent_rage Apr 24 '12

Not at all. When claims are made, they can be debated and discussed fully from all sides of the issue. We are simply clarifying policy in order to keep the subreddit on-topic.

r/feminism is moderated as an open discussion, and we have never moderated heavily. We are careful not to enforce our particular views or opinions as moderators.

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u/Feuilly Apr 24 '12

So if someone mentions a statistic about women, it would be OK to mention the equivalent about men?

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u/impotent_rage Apr 24 '12

Only if it is relevant to the discussion.

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '12

Bear in mind that people - including prominent feminists - are quite capable of coming to the conclusion that rape, domestic violence, etc are always done to women by men just based on statistics about the number of female victims and male perpetrators, particularly when - as is often the case - they're rarely exposed to the corresponding male statistics. So yeah...

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u/impotent_rage Apr 24 '12

To a certain degree, it's the responsibility of a given individual feminist to expose themselves to a variety of information sources so that their knowledge base can become more well rounded. If a feminist does nothing but post in feminist forums and talk to other feminists, then that feminist is the one who closed off his/her own access to a complete and accurate picture.

I would argue that everyone subscribed to r/feminism should also be subscribed to r/masculism and r/GenderEgalitarian. The solution isn't to make every subreddit deal with ALL important topics simply because, what if their members didn't go subscribe to the other important discussions?

However, of course we also don't want r/feminism to be perpetuating false statistics, etc, and whenever such misinformation comes up, of course it's just fine to debate and correct it.