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reddit has /r/TwoXChromosomes which is one of my favorite subs. It's a general womens subreddit, and though it obviously leans feminist it's not its main purpose. It welcomes all genders, but remains a womens space.
The fediverse could really use that energy.
There's also /r/WitchesVsPatriarchy which is also very strictly woman-centered.
Damn women appropriating witchdom. Excluding boywitches just reaffirms the patriarchy's gendering of magic. It's re-inventing the same gender roles.
Neither the WvP subreddit nor the Discord excludes men from identifying as witches or from participating in discussions.
Then what does women-centered mean in practice? Is it just a nothing label?
Woman-centered is not an absolute. One does not have to be part of a single characteristic of a group to have a stake in it, to be an ally, an advocate, a partner, a family member, among countless other scenarios.
I would suggest reading up on intersectionality.
By the way, all of this is covered in the subreddit sidebar, including in an FAQ in the wiki.
I'm sorry, what?
It's women-centered because it's "against patriarchy"... not because it's witchy. And they are trans & queer inclusive as well.
I think it would be even more against patriarchy if it was enby centered. They should change that.
You need to stay away from feminism and enby activism entirely until you've humbled yourself and seriously sat with how problematic this take is.
You're not helping anybody with that. Least of all enbies/trans people. And not just because it makes us look bad either, though that's certainly part of it.
I don't know how problematic this take is, and since you can't explain how it is, I'm convinced you don't either. You're just having an emotional reaction to deviation from the gender binary's norms, which construct womanhood as the opposite of manhood.
Don't worry you have nothing to get from people identifying as "witches"
Narrow minded nonsense.
Yeah but thats a subreddit not REDDIT itself, you can similarly start a /c/TwoX on just about any Lemmy instance.
While I do agree with what you're saying, I actually think a "by women for women" instance has a slightly different impact than a "by women for women" community. There are definitely pros and cons for both, though
We used to have an equivalent on our instance, but it was constantly flooded with reply-bros and trans people complaining about the name, so we archived it as no women was willing to moderate it (for understandable reasons).
Lemmy supports local-only private communities now, might be a good use case for that
Nah, let the transphobic name die
As a trans person please stop. You're not helping & are being underhandedly misogynistic.
I wondered if they made the jump over here. Guess not, sadly. Reading that sub has made me a better man, because it offers some pretty harsh critiques of male behavior.
r/TwoXChromosomes is a general women’s subreddit in the same way that r/lesbians is for same-sex attracted women.
Ie. it’s not.
Explain? /r/lesbians is a porn subreddit. /r/TwoXChromosomes isn't.
I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say
Is it a porn subreddit now? It wasn’t before, it was a sub for lesbians only. No men allowed. Just same sex attracted women to talk about lesbian things.
Then it got overtaken by males who identify as women who call themselves lesbians, because Reddit admin banned anyone that dared to say that males can’t be lesbians, and they banned the mods and gave ownership to a biological male “lesbian”. If it’s a porn sub now then that says a lot about what those “lesbians” males really think of lesbians.
The women that ran r/lesbians then made r/actuallesbians as a replacement since they lost their sub, and all the females moved there. Can you guess what happened next? The biological males didn’t like the females having their own place, so they got admins to ban them again and they took control of that sub too. It’s probably a porn sub now too then.
r/twoxchromosomes is all biological males with XY chromosomes, just like r/lesbians is.
Ngl I'm not sure where you're getting any of this from.
As far as I know /r/lesbians always was a porn sub, I don't think the part about it being a lesbian community that got overtaken by men is true. Obviously it sucks that it's a porn sub.
/r/ActualLesbians is also still just a normal lesbian community. It never got banned by admins.
I don't understand why you would lie about something like this.
Edit: Ohhh. I get it. You're a transphobe. Genuinely forgot assholes like you exist for a second.
r/lesbians was not always a porn sub.
r/actuallesbians has not been banned, I never said it had. It has been taken over by trans identifying males.