I know this community has been pretty dead since it was created but I figure there's probably some lurkers. Whenever I comment on reddit, particularly on a default sub, I always feel the need to adjust the wording to make my gender ambiguous. Obviously you guys are all most likely aware that casually mentioning that you're a women can and does completely change the response you receive on a post or comment. There's been times where someone asks my gender, I respond saying "I'm a woman" , and I literally receive half a dozen downvotes on that comment. Like I wonder if it's a bunch of immature teenage boys who have hitched a ride on the anti-sjw train or weather it's fully grown ass men who just find the existence of women on the internet to be a nuisance.
This has kinda turned into a rant but I suppose I'm especially aware of it now bc I have noticed posting here feels different, I don't feel the need to watch what I saw and be overly ambiguous about my gender just to avoid potentially nasty comments. Has reddit really always been that bad?
Lol tbf I'm sure it's better than being a female chud and trying to participate in alt right communities online lmao
Oh yeah I feel bad for them too. Societal pressure to go against our natural instincts and being a communal social species is like a really insidious form of complex PTSD.
Yeah it's so strange to me how some women can passionately support people and communities that very clearly hate women. It's hard in general to see people advocating so blatantly against their own interests. And your PTSD comment has some truth to it, you really do become desensitized to it all. A perfect example is how I just kind of subconsciously realized that revealing my gender in certain reddit communities wasn't a great idea and I just kinda accepted it and moved on without ever thinking about it. It isn't until you take a little step back and realize it's all actually super fucking whack. Lol like wtf why do I even try and talk to these people
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