Some good things that have come from this...

submitted by reallylovesguacamole from self.GenderCritical

I discovered r/GenderCritical around 2019 Fall and it opened my eyes to so much that was bothering me, but that I didn't understand or feel comfortable exploring out of subconscious fear of the woke police. Beyond the peak trans stuff, the sub exposed me to the realities of the porn industry. For once, I felt SAFE to express what I always felt - that sex work is demeaning and hurts all women. The death of the sub is truly upsetting and at first, made me feel hopeless. But here is how I am trying to find some positives:

  • I couldn't participate in other subs without SOMEONE mentioning that I participate in the sub and that I support LITERAL vIoLeNcE because of an opinion. I had to use alts all the time because of getting banned or downvoted to oblivion and ousted, just because of masstaggers or buried post history. Here, I can be as honest as I want without backlash.

  • The fact that women with alternative views are being banned and silenced while rape and other disgusting fetish subs are up will hopefully radicalize other women

  • J.K Rowling, the ban, everything validates the rad-fem cries of erasure and inability to provide dissenting opinions in the interest of women without facing the mob. Even J.K wasn't safe.

  • Hopefully more of us will share our views in the mainstream, like Twitter, and support one another. We cannot keep hiding and getting silenced.

Biggest negative IMO: It confirms all of the fears that these psychos would attempt to police every corner of the Internet with their convoluted, fantasy-based ideology and act as thought-cops. They were already pressing into other subs, even Contrapoints said uwu cat"girls" made her cringe and she felt uncomfortable with transbians entering subs like r/ActualLesbians and talking about their girl dick. But these people have seriously tried to censor every fucking sub and force people to bow down to them.

I really hope that more of us will get on Twitter and make this shit MAINSTREAM, not just hiding in corners of the Internet. For safety reasons, I understand feeling the need to conceal your identity, but we should still not fear adding our own commentary in these issues.

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[–]Adele 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I always felt conflicted on being on Reddit. Their behavior is no surprise, it's always been a misogynist shitshow. r/GC was an amazing community and information source for me, and finding it was a huge part of resolving my cognitive dissonance around libfem ideology. But really, it doesn't matter where the community is hosted as long as women can find it. I'm of the "I don't want to be part of any club that doesn't want me as a member" school of thought. Fuck them.

[–]-thedarkhorse- 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

I have dusted off Twitter and am loving Spinster.

[–]Lady_Montgomery 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I’m trying out discord for the first time. And I like it. Shocking. And spinster is the bomb

[–]-thedarkhorse- 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I was a bit thrown by the lack of porn/child abuse/misogyny at first but I think I can get used to it.

[–]Lady_Montgomery 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

No stalkers telling women love doing porn and getting choked is truly something to get used to indeed

[–]Yamyam 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Twitter is a shitshow. That site is just for canceling anyone and for gathering drama and spilling tea

[–]-thedarkhorse- 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I know, that is why it is dusty :)

[–]blahblahgcer 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah I'm honestly kind of glad that this inpsired me to get a Spinster and also be more outspoken about things

[–]badMADam 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The new fascist movement comes with an disturbing entitlement of feeling morally superiour and "woke", and anyone (especially women) with a dissenting opinion is a cruel subhuman nazi bigot terf totally deserving of vicious bullying and the most cruel violence because MoRaLiTy. Now lets all together shout some slogans or else...

[–]jet199 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Just look at how quickly Black Lives Matter (the org not the sentiment) has risen and fallen in a handful of weeks. The same thing can happen to the trans cult. Literally the only thing which is keeping them from being cancelled and shunned is that most people don't realise what they actually stand for. This is why they are so keen to shut down forums. We just need to keep shining a light. Keep talking and remember not to only talk in bubbles like spinster but share what you can get away with on the most popular platforms as well.

[–]1352DogwoodAvenue 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the fascinating thing is, they can't hate on any gendercritical content without simultaneously acknowledging that it exists.

Wherever we go, they'll have to go in order to get their hate-content. Free advertising in a way.