WOMEN ONLY COMMUNITY MEN PLEASE DO NOT COMMENT

I totally get the joke, and Pedro can only be a good thing (huge fan, pray daily that he adopts me). But I do understand why some men would find it insulting. What’s your thoughts?

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    This space is shifting into TERF territory real quick

    Looking at this meme for what it is, it’s literally saying “#yesallmen *except Pedro, so I’m not a bigot <3”

    It’s a really cowardly way to try on ideologies without acknowledging the blatantly harmful aspects

    And this space being for women is fine, but the mandatory requirement to say all men are excluded in every post title makes this space reek of the ways TERFs isolate and control women.

    • foxglove (she/her)@lazysoci.alM
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      4 days ago

      but the mandatory requirement to say all men are excluded in every post title makes this space reek of the ways TERFs isolate and control women.

      It’s not mandatory, LadyButteryfly is just doing that on some of her posts because so many men comment on posts in this community, which then takes up a lot of time and effort to remove.

      The motivation to put the rule in the title of the post is because so many men don’t read the rules or notice what community they’re in before posting, this helps them be aware and reduces the workload of the moderators.

      I hear you on how it can look or seem TERFy, but I think this might just be a misunderstanding, we are explicitly trans inclusive.

        • foxglove (she/her)@lazysoci.alM
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          3 days ago

          Sounds like we might be talking past one another 😅

          The rules of the community are that this is a women-only community, but you said:

          the mandatory requirement to say all men are excluded in every post title

          I was only clarifying that there is no rule that every post must include language in the post title saying all men are excluded …

    • LadyButterflyshe/her@lazysoci.alOPM
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      4 days ago

      Thanks for your feedback! Dont worry we don’t do that in every post, but we’ve sadly had manosphere commenters brigade posts like this in the past. I’ve found it’s best to prevent issues with the title. ❤️