Hi comrades, want to give you all an informal update on the discussions around the site's misogyny problems that've been happening over the last several days. I wanna make sure you know that the admin/mod team has seen all of that discourse and we've been actively discussing solutions in the matrix mod chat. We're taking this shit very seriously and acknowledge that we haven't used a heavy enough hand on misogynistic rhetoric. As some of you saw we nuked that cheating thread from a couple weeks ago and handed out temp bans to the most egregious offenders. Idk how that was allowed to run it's course but we apologize for that oversight. We're going to do better.
We've come up with some ideas for how to improve this part of the site culture and we want to get suggestions from y'all as well, since the alarm was sounded on this by our beautiful c/traa posters to begin with. Our ideas so far include:
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A zero-tolerance policy towards any even remotely misogynistic/patriarchal posts or comments, as too much has slipped through the cracks on that, establishing a clear protocol for bans for violating rules against misogyny, and ideally tracking repeat offenders in a way that makes deciding a course of action easy when they reoffend.
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Uphold TC69 thought by starting up a book club (and hopefully more to follow) on feminist theory and encouraging mass participation, particularly from the he/him's on the site. "The Will to Change" by bell hooks has been suggested by multiple people as a great starting point but please feel free to suggest any other works.
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Relaunching /c/menby with a trusted educated mod team and a specific focus on countering mainstream narratives about masculinity, relationships and sex that breed reactionary, patriarchal attitudes
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Encouraging [namely femme] participation in /c/womenby and taking steps to revitalize that sub as an excellent source of discussion on feminism and intersectionality
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Holding another mod drive to get more folks into mod positions in our communities who can help weed out reactionary attitudes
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Encouraging users to use the report button often on any post that seems even remotely sus, with the promise that no one's going to be punished for "report abuse" for reporting posts in obvious good faith
Please let me know your thoughts on the above or any other ideas you have for making the site better, safer and more inclusive for our femme comrades. Once we've fully hammered out plans and updated policy we plan to make an announcement post highlighting these changes for the whole userbase. Thank you all for being here and being who you are 
The plan looks good, but please follow it up by reaching out to online spaces with more women and nonbinary people.
Any improvement will slowly backslide if there aren't people directly affected by the issue there to spot things, in enough numbers that nobody is getting bummed out by constantly being the one having to report stuff.
edit: this was phrased very poorly before and ashinadash was right to call me out
oh good i nearly missed this one
Perceptions of who is and isn't affected by misogyny are a huge source of shown asses for transphobic thought of this type. Not the first one.
not gonna be the last one either i reckon
Very well
That seems like a huge overstatement?
The survey said this website is like 70% men though, which is too high. (Or more specifically, since the survey doesn't actually cover that, 210 out of 298 people using binary pronouns use he/him)
Right, my point - and nobody else in that 30% is affected by misogyny? Nobody using neopronouns is affected by misogyny?
Just checked the data - "are you cis" answer was like 40% no.
Okay, that's entirely fair, and a bad way of framing it on my part, I'll try to do better, and I'll amend my original post.
But the he/hims still outnumber every other group, and I think we'll backslide if this continues to be the case.
That is a much better way to frame it,
"please put on the socks" etc.
Either that or purges might dent the numbers. I was disappointed we did not steal blahaj.zone's entire cool userbase though.
I went back and checked and it definitely says there's more he/hims than she/hers though.