I just stepped down as moderator from all five of the subreddits I used to moderate over on Reddit. I just can’t ethically justify continued activity on Reddit, and especially free volunteer labour for an openly greedy company that is engaged in scummy behaviour, forcing mods to open protesting communities or be demoted.
So my online activism for boys and men is now focused here and on Mastodon. And I am welcoming everyone coming over from Reddit, especially from LeftWingMaleAdvocates, the sub I put in the majority of my time and effort as a mod.
Let’s build something good here, as we did previously on Reddit. It appears we have a wider reach here, so let’s debate in good faith and with civil manners.
Here, in this magazine (i.e. community or subreddit in Kbin-speak) we wish to discuss and spread awareness of various issues that disproportionately affect males.
We believe men are not being well-served by either side of the mainstream political spectrum. We oppose the right wing’s exploitation of men’s issues as a wedge to recruit men to inegalitarian traditional values. But we also oppose feminist attempts to deny male issues, or shoehorn them into a biased ideology that blames “male privilege” and guilt-trips men.
We have no objection to the genuinely egalitarian aspects of feminism, but we will criticize feminist ideology wherever it is inegalitarian and/or untruthful, especially now that it holds institutional power. Too often feminism has promoted a one-sided “equality”, dismantling male advantages while exploiting, reinforcing, preserving, and downplaying female advantages - particularly in cases involving alleged abuse.
In practice this means that most of us are politically homeless. The natural home for male advocacy should be the left wing, which professes to be explicitly egalitarian. But in modern practice, men’s issues are habitually ignored, denied, or even opposed.
We seek to address male issues without falling into the traps of an impossible return to the past or a disastrous sexism. Men and women have equal value, and we need to work together for a better future.
I understand that you felt betrayed by reddit. I understand that you feel the need to use what power you have to salt the earth behind you.
But what you have done is wrong.
There was a support community that was a rare safe haven for people that needed that support. In a world full of right-wing nonsense and misandry on an absolutely gigantic scale, there was a safe group that allowed for freedom of expression without a need for tearing others down.
You were a large part of that, yes - but by destroying it in your wake you have undone all that work and then some. Not even allowing for a record of previous posts is… reprehensible.
**There were plenty of posts full of people asking to take over as the main mod of that subreddit. ** Instead of listening to them, you have tried to “take a stand” by destroying a community in a way that the reddit admins could not possibly care less about. You have destroyed a group of 15,000 people in a move driven by impotent spite.
You are also overwhelmingly arrogant to believe that not only have you “called” the replacement to reddit correctly (there are plenty of other competing sites, including reddit itself), but that you will be able to create a community even 1% as large here.
**REOPEN R/LEFTWINGMALEADVOCATES - AND APPOINT ANOTHER HEAD MOD. Then leave if you wish. You have ignored every poll, every post, every request for other opinions. And instead you have thrown a temper tantrum in a forum that was genuinely helpful for those who needed it.
Redeem yourself.**
removed because uncivil