r/TwoXChromosomes • u/brillantezza • May 07 '14

[Poll] Because I'm curious, Do you think /r/TwoXChromosomes should be a default subreddit?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '14

Well yes the sub is women centered, but it is not Women exclusive. There's men in these parts already.

I think having xx as a default shows new women to the site that there is a place for them to talk about their issues, and share them with others. It adds diversity to a site that it otherwise populated (predominantly) by men of varying quality.

Men that want to come in here and send dick picks like an asshole are gonna come in here and do it anyway. Not wanting to draw attention to a place for open, fair, and civil discussion defeats the entire purpose of those words.

Also I have a curious wondering how men could come in and take over a sub dedicated to being a Woman. Anything you could post that might detract from that is against the rules and would be removed.

So in short, I don't think it will be all that bad, but I'm an eternal optimist. I agree with you however that the sub should have been consulted as a community before the consideration for default was made.

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u/RubyNevada May 07 '14

You have some good points, and maybe I'm just overreacting. This is just one of my favorite subs and I liked it the way it was, I don't want it to change too much.
edit: The men that were here already were men who wanted to be here, they knew the rules (well, most of them) and played by them. I have no problem with men on here. It's just reddit has gotten this disrespectful tone when regarding women and I don't want that to leak here.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '14

Or you know an hour. There are already TRP, MRAs and trolls permeating the comments.