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Lovely mods, thank you for prioritizing the sustainability of the site by focusing on securing and maintaining funding.
Whenever new circles are able to be concentrated on again, I wanted to throw my voice behind existing ideas.
o/parenting and o/childfree would be productive spaces in building support networks and encouraging the sharing of relevant resources.
o/teenagers because kids here need their own space, and providing teens with their own space here could help unite younger gender critical people and give them a support place to talk about issues more relevant to them without adults interfering.
o/genderresearch (working title) to allow for a separate circle dedicated to sharing sharing discussing academic and scientific research specific to trans related topics separate from o/STEM. It could be a really good resource for us as it would in theory enable us to be able to quickly locate scientific studies on transitioning, detransitioning, gender dysphoria, and whatever else.
o/intersectional as a place where women of color can discuss their own unique experiences. I have heard many women really wanting this space and I think it would ultimately benefit gender critical women of color and the overall site.
Finally, and maybe this is controversial, but o/hetrelationships as a space where gender critical het and bi women can talk about their relationships with men and how to navigate them. It feels wrong to clog up o/women with posts about relationship issues with men and posting such content to o/gendercritical would, in my opinion, obfuscate the purpose of that circle. Yes, there are plenty of places elsewhere on the internet where women can talk about men but I think we can all agree that none of those places are welcome to gender critical women's perspectives and often can offer shit advice.
I really want /o/news to read female perspectives on the news.
Same with /o/teenagers for girls to not be influenced by dirty male degenerates who try to brainwash teen girls into thinking wanting nice and normal sex with people you have feelings for is a bad thing.
I'd really love an o/news as well. O/womensliberation is great for feminist and women focused news but I'd love to have a general news circle exactly to hear everyone's perspectives and have discussions.
I’d really appreciate the hetrelationships circle— I used to be on FDS but I felt a little alienated by a lot of the “self-improvement” suggestions being just… getting better at makeup and femininity, which I don’t want to do. A more radfem centered discussion would be so awesome!! (Plus I may have contributed to the clutter on o/women with my post the other day…ope)
Was this some time ago? Ive Been there for 2 years and the only advise i see is -block and delete GENEROUSLY - never be a SAHM completely dependent on the man's money - get your own career - have a separate account with emergency money - be ready to leave at literally any minute. I can honestly say i have never seen a post encouraging women to be MORE attractive to men... We all know they fuck animals, corpses, objects... There is really absolutely no necessity to make yourself more attractive to men
Oh yes, block&delete was definitely the mantra. I agree with everything you noted, I saw all those points being made on the sub.
However, in terms of leveling up: I think there are many great pieces of advice on leveling up your life in the handbook but in day-to-day comments I noticed an increasing amount of makeup/fashion/femininity suggestions, even from mods.
There was at one point a VERY weird series of posts from 1 user that was enthusiastically supported by mods, all about something called “masculino” or something, describing how being assertive or stereotypically masculine, as the woman in the relationship, was what was making her relationships not work. By pulling back and embracing femininity and being less confident, her dating life has improved. Seeing that get positive reception on the sub and recommended by the mods was kind of the last straw for me, and having absorbed the handbook I felt I’d gotten as much as I could. I deleted Reddit and pretty much never go on anymore!
I agree with the handbook totally. I agree with a large part of what I saw on the subreddit too. But I was seeing an increasing sentiment of embracing being deferential or maybe pretending to be so, as well as learning to be better at feminine stuff. It rubbed me the wrong way and truthfully if I have to wear makeup, shave my legs, act less confident, or pretend I’m deferential to get a man, I’d rather stay single!
Side note— also the whole debacle where the podcast mods distanced themselves from radical feminism by HEAVILY criticizing or even making fun of radical feminism did not sit well with me. There was a lot of contention about that. I think it was a while ago now
Thank you so much for your input. That's all very interesting points. I must admit i do not listen to the podcast, I'm not actively looking to date at the moment and mostly on FDS to support the literally last female sub and i love their discussions about female empowerment.
I understood generally they had to distance themselves from GC to not get the ban from the pedopholic piece of garbage Ashton Challenor. I also have not read the handbook in it's entirety so i probably missed these parts. I can definitely and proudly say i have never in my entire lifetime deferred to a man and i intend to keep it that way. No dick is worth your integrity.
Also decent men tend to not care about makeup and shaved legs so if anything consciously not doing these makes it more likely you'll find a man who actually respects you. I do wear makeup but i haven't shaved my legs since corona started lol
Maybe also some food, cooking and nutrition circles? So far there's only vegan but nothing for vegetarians and meat eaters which is probably most people?
It would be interesting to see the culture that develops on o/childfree, compared to r/childfree.
I think a o/teen o/teenager would be a great idea especially considering how their ages are so affected by gender and all the other negative things and also so they can talk of other stuff that is relevant to them.