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[-] Tonuka@feddit.org 52 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] lunarul@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

There's also /r/WitchesVsPatriarchy which is also very strictly woman-centered.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

Damn women appropriating witchdom. Excluding boywitches just reaffirms the patriarchy's gendering of magic. It's re-inventing the same gender roles.

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 15 points 3 months ago

Neither the WvP subreddit nor the Discord excludes men from identifying as witches or from participating in discussions.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago

Then what does women-centered mean in practice? Is it just a nothing label?

[-] Ashtear@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Nuxleio@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

I think it would be even more against patriarchy if it was enby centered. They should change that.

[-] Nuxleio@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

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.

[-] VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Don't worry you have nothing to get from people identifying as "witches"

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Narrow minded nonsense.

[-] poVoq@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 months ago

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).

[-] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 3 months ago

Lemmy supports local-only private communities now, might be a good use case for that

[-] Genius@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Nah, let the transphobic name die

[-] Nuxleio@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As a trans person please stop. You're not helping & are being underhandedly misogynistic.

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah but thats a subreddit not REDDIT itself, you can similarly start a /c/TwoX on just about any Lemmy instance.

[-] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

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

[-] slingstone@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

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.

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