3d ago

Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?

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But like what even is a social media for women? I wasn't aware the ones we currently have were for men
- 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.
  
  There's also /r/WitchesVsPatriarchy which is also very strictly woman-centered.
  
  Damn women appropriating witchdom. Excluding boywitches just reaffirms the patriarchy's gendering of magic. It's re-inventing the same gender roles.
  
  Neither the WvP subreddit nor the Discord excludes men from identifying as witches or from participating in discussions.
  
  Then what does women-centered mean in practice? Is it just a nothing label?
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  I think it would be even more against patriarchy if it was enby centered. They should change that.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Don't worry you have nothing to get from people identifying as "witches"
  
  Narrow minded nonsense.
  
  Yeah but thats a subreddit not REDDIT itself, you can similarly start a /c/TwoX on just about any Lemmy instance.
  
  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
  
  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).
  
  Lemmy supports local-only private communities now, might be a good use case for that
  
  Nah, let the transphobic name die
  
  As a trans person please stop. You're not helping & are being underhandedly misogynistic.
  
  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.
- Its all technically ran by trans women which is mildly interesting, like the mods of 2x and the others on reddit and here I think
  
  on reddit every female sub is ran by the same woman

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