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?