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There was a stupid Craigslist-esque "missed connections" post in my university's subreddit, and I said it was "creepy" in a comment. I also asked why it was allowed there, and some offended idiot who wasn't even the OP wrote me this entire novel about how I was a "bad person" and ridiculed me about what I'm studying in school. So I said "I'm not reading all that", and called him an incel because he was a frequent /r/seduction poster, after which I was swiftly permabanned for "being uncivil". He didn't get any punishment for insulting me, of course.
Never mind that my profile has tons of karma and I got it all from posting my art and making free art for others, just because I enjoy making random people happy, and leaving nice comments for other artists. No, I'm a bad person because I called someone who coerces women into sex a creepy incel, and of course the other deeply offended men are allowed to freely call me names in the thread without recourse, while the creepy thread sits at the top of the sub and has nothing to do with the university at all.
It was obvious all of them were desperately digging through my comment history (one of them said that it was "cringe that an AFAB person is calling people incels when that's a really offensive and serious term"! LMAO as though it's a racial slur??) to find something to "get" me with but none of them could find a damn thing lol.
I just feel like the platform has worsened exponentially over the past 4 or so years, although I did used to think I was "mentally a man" so I probably just gaslit myself into thinking it wasn't that bad before.
I am just gonna miss seeing some of the nice art that gets posted there. But a lot of it was male-oriented anyway (scantily clad anime girl posts go to the top always) and one of my formerly favorite subs, /r/pixelart, is a lot of just straight up porn now. At least Tumblr still has nice art. I hate Instagram/FB so I can't use that.
And I did meet a wonderful woman on there who helped me out while I was in a deep depression years ago, but she also eventually left due to harassment. I feel like that's literally my only worthwhile interaction/friendship to come out of that place from that entire 13 years, but women like that are probably leaving every day.
There was another hilarious incident a few years ago where all the "drama" subs laughed at how I got permabanned from a sub because the mods there thought drawing a completely SFW comic with girls with cat ears and tails, that I posted only on my own personal website, was "sexist".... Men explaining to women how their art is sexist is peak Scrottit....
Anyways, thanks for listening to my silly rant, and thanks to FDS for making me see how much I was disrespecting myself for allowing myself to remain in that space among shitty scrotes and having the viewpoints of porn addicts considered as the "general population" in my mind (that shit platform does provide that illusion).
I will not miss the stupid shitty rehashed and often offensive "jokes" though, I've never seen such a group of profoundly unfunny people.
I've read through some of the other posts on this forum bashing Scrottit, and that helped me feel better, but please feel free to provide some of your own anecdotes about it or being harassed online in general if you want to vent and find it cathartic. I will listen and back you up. <3
And please suggest other art communities for me if you know about them!
Reddit is only for misogynistic males, pedos and the woman-wannabe failed males
Holy shit, my 12 year account was permabanned last week for saying r/twoxchromosomes was probably run by men! I had been slowly pulling away recently but that shit just put the final nail in that coffin. Everything I said was countered with "but what about what men go thru?" and "not all men" arguments, and scrotes just being pedantic, condescending and contrary.
Congrats on being free from Scrottit! The amount of male pandering that goes on on that site is a joke. A scrote could literally admit to the most depraved things on there and receive an echo chamber of validation and acceptance. It's insane. I don't go on there much but recently it seems that even the hobby subs I follow have been infiltrated by scrotes. Last time I looked on there (a couple of weeks ago) the first post I saw was some scrote asking for advice having urinated on his neighbour's herbs which had subsequently died. The comments were mainly just men laughing and making jokes. I had to dig so hard to find a couple at the bottom with female avatars who were horrified and disgusted by his behaviour. Some even had downvotes?? I haven't been back since.
Yep, I left reddit after The Great Feminist Purge (RIP Pinkpill). It has always been a cesspit though. The ONLY reason FDS survives there is because they need a token female group and they think it will help their male members somehow. Honestly I consider it a red flag when a guy says he's a redditor.
"cringe that an AFAB person is calling people incels when that's a really offensive and serious term"
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Must be the new gen z version of "Women should only be seen and not heard."
I saw that post, it WAS creepy!
It sucks that you had such an anwful experience on that horrid website. Only pick-mes could feel comfortable there (probably because they gaslight themselves). I cannot imagine how many women were hurt on this website, by this website, because of this website... FDS is the only good that came out of that place. Reddit can be absolutely radioactive. I was harassed there which really traumatized me. A lesson for the future to never trust reddit with any personal info/stories that could hurt you if trolls got their hands on it. I now use disposable accounts (not to get attached) only to ask things on Reddit if I need some info, opinions, professional advice in design. I'm also keeping my profile gender neutral.
You were banned for pointing out the ridiculousness of his romcom fantasy because the place is run by Incels, who would like to think that a “grand gesture” like a craigslist missed connections add would lead them to the girl of their dreams. Reddit is TRASH
I got myself banned from so many subs for clowning on perverted males and calling them "he", in the end the only one I was still active on was FDS. My god, if I had a nickle for every time I was called "uncivil" for sassing an MRA I'd buy a private island and fly all you queens out for a party. When they launched the FDS podcast I decided my life would be better without reddit altogether. So I deleted my account, and used site blockers to lock muself out of reddit on my laptop and phone permanantly. And it's been grand! Welcome to the light, sister!
I got a permanent ban as well, but was never given a reason. Going by their standards, the worst thing I did was post published feminist theory on TwoX.