R/Feminism
r/Feminism is a political feminist subreddit.[1] As of June 2020[update] it has 179,000 members.[2] The subreddit discusses issues that impact women and minorities, including workplace sexism and harassment, rape, abuse, pink tax, cultural appropriation, and representation. Users of r/feminism are similar to the users of r/menslib, a men's liberation subreddit; and r/againstmensrights, a subreddit against r/MensRights.[1]
In a survey of non–feminists in the subreddit in 2018, non–feminists said that they wanted to disrupt the community. Feminists in the subreddit have noted a level of of anti–feminists in the comments. In the first quarter of 2020, about a thousand members were banned from the subreddit per month. Due to disruption, it can be difficult to differentiate good-faith and bad-faith, and feminists within the subreddit may feel uncomfortable voicing their opinions due to negative reactions by other feminists.[2]
A study of news reports of the People v. Turner on reddit, comparing r/news, r/feminism, and r/mensrights found that r/feminism was the only subreddit to call Turner an "offender". r/Feminism was the only subreddit that linked to external webpages using the words "crime" or "rapist", indicating that r/feminism had a much stronger view on Turner than the other subreddits. 30% of the posts in r/feminism would reword news articles about the case, and 62.5% in r/MensRights. When comparing r/Feminism and r/MensRights, the feminist subreddit was likely to link to progressive websites, and r/MensRights were likely to link to conservative websites, meaning that both of the subreddits preferred sources which agreed with their beliefs.[3]
References
- ^ a b Khan, Abeer; Golab, Lukasz (2020). "Reddit Mining to Understand Gendered Movements". uwaterloo.ca. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ a b Nathan Matias, J.; Simko, Tyler; Reddan, Marianne (2020-06-25). "Study Results: Reducing the Silencing Role of Harassment in Online Feminism Discussions". Citizens and Technology Lab. Retrieved 2023-09-20.
- ^ Brattland, K. (2017). Information Preferences of Reddit Communities Surrounding the Brock Turner Case. Progressive Librarian, 46(46), 86.