Name ideas:

/o/europe (maybe to broad?)

/o/europeanIssues (awkward?)

/o/europeans

Like on every English-language site, many commenters and posters assume an American perspective and treat America as default. As much as I appreciate many aspects of American culture, Europeans have different norms when it comes to public discourse. For example, we tend to not be locked into a two-party system, which has strong effect on how issues align with political factions.

Right now, multiple European countries (like Poland, Hungary, Russia and Turkey,) are strongly regressing on both women's and LGBT rights. I believe this needs more attention in GC/RadFem discourse. I understand that Americans care about the issues next door most, but as a non-American, I find it a bit vexing when random discussion revolves around "this country" and "our government" with no further qualifiers.

Examples of topics that are very different in Europe vs America:

• The role of religion in government. Besides France, European countries have a very poor, sometimes non-existing separation of church and state.

• Identity politics: American ideas about race and "White Supremacy" make no sense in the European context.

• Privacy and personal information: Identifying suspects before they have exhausted all appeals tends to be very illegal and is seen as very unethical by the general public. Also, people in public spaces have a presumption of privacy. Subreddits like PublicFreakout and PeopleOfWallmart basically don't exist on non-English reddit, and Europeans tend to be horrified by that sort of thing.

• Freedom of speech is not as clearly and unambiguously guaranteed as it is in the US. Defamation law can be overarching and even flip the presumption of innocence (looking at you, UK)

• Dating. We don't "date" in the same sense that Americans do.

• Terms like "left/right/conservative/progressive" are aligned differently.

I'd volunteer as a mod.