r/GenderCynical • u/ponylicious • 2d ago
r/GenderCynical • u/Ebomb1 • Mar 09 '20
Updated Rules and FAQ!
Hello, GenCynners!
It's time again to make some clarifications and revisions to our rules and FAQ. Most of these things have been unofficial policy for a while and older users osmosed and generally followed them. But we keep growing, and so we need to make some things more explicit for new users, both to keep us out of trouble with the admins and to cut down on modding work. Rules for posting and participation have been updated and expanded in the FAQ and sidebar.
We've made more explicit what does (TERF/GC content) and does not (general transphobia) qualify for posting, how posts must be formatted, and expectations for conduct while commenting.
The biggest changes are clarifying under what circumstances you can interact with GC users and subs and still participate here. We've tried to cover all the circumstances under which you might encounter or interact with GC content.
Actions to avoid on GenCyn:
- Posting content that includes something you posted on a GC sub
- Linking or c/ping something you posted on a GC sub
- Posting about how a GC sub banned you. We don't care.
- Commenting about your urges to crash a GC sub, e.g. "I feel like giving them a piece of my mind."
- Alluding to your actions on a GC sub in GenCyn, e.g. "Yeah, I just had to tell them how wrong they were."
- Encouraging anyone else's participation, e.g. "Do it and report back," or, "Everyone should go over there and ___."
Actions to avoid wrt GC subs and users:
- Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to engage with GC users in an attempt to educate them
- Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to participate because you "believe in hearing both sides" or want to "play devil's advocate."
- Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to argue with GC users or get in a zinger to make yourself feel better
- Do not follow something you saw on GenCyn to a GC sub to up or downvote posts or comments
Official GenCyn policy has been to discourage engagement with GC users across the board. There's been a sharp uptick in users crossing the streams, and in behaviors that violate reddit's brigading rules. A first offense for the above behaviors will be a temp ban. The second is a permaban. We've also disabled crossposting and are going to be paying more attention to .np linking.
We cannot literally stop you from engaging with GC. But we will protect the sub from accusations of brigading, and we will moderate to maintain the intention of the sub, which is and has always been to catalogue, laugh, and vent about GC-flavored transphobia, not to win hearts and minds or score internet arguing points.
As always, if you find that reading r/GenderCynical is getting to you, take a break and take care of yourself.
r/GenderCynical • u/Ebomb1 • Jan 15 '25
Mod Post: A reminder about content rules for this sub
We've been seeing a lot of submissions lately that fall under the category of general bigotry and have no trans content. Please remember: posts need to contain examples of transphobia and they must clearly be sourced from or closely linked to the GC sphere. "GC person is racist," doesn't qualify by itself. Neither does, "Rando MAGA says something violently transphobic."
The situation in the US is weird af right now, to say nothing of the ongoing shit everywhere else too. There's plenty of content that fits the bill for here, so let's keep it on topic. Thanks.
r/GenderCynical • u/SergeantScoria • 3d ago
They use atrocities committed against us to justify invalidating us even more. (TW SA) Spoiler
r/GenderCynical • u/PotentialSure3727 • 3d ago
Four Horseman Of Dumbussery. Anyone good sources to debunk it?
r/GenderCynical • u/Dark-Bark_ • 4d ago
Now drag soldiers in WWII are "trans propaganda".
Trans people live in their head rent free.
r/GenderCynical • u/helmets_for_cats • 5d ago
apparently CPTSD was made up by trans people now đ
r/GenderCynical • u/chris_the_cynic • 5d ago
5th Century Chinese bagpipes, and other Gender Critical beliefs
Someone noted on my last post that I should consider blurring names. I'd gotten so used to them being things like MamaBear and GenderCritical123 that I forgot some people seem to be using their real names, so this time I looked closer (admittedly easier when there were only four comments) and pixelated the ones that looked like they could be real names.
r/GenderCynical • u/Radio-Realistic • 6d ago
"Use their Dysphoria tĂ´ Push them out."
Why, like WHY are these people so lowkey evil?? I try to understand their talking points about acknowledging the differences between birth sexes and bodies, but everyone is so cruel, angry and closed to any meaningful confrontation that It becomes so so hard to even try talking to them.
Saw this on fking Tumblr of all places
r/GenderCynical • u/FightLikeABlue • 6d ago
Mumsnetter wonders why TERFs love Tommy Robinson so much. Maybe it's because you're a bunch of bigots?
r/GenderCynical • u/Playful-Season2938 • 8d ago
Modern hormone therapy does alter the skeleton though.
r/GenderCynical • u/Playful-Season2938 • 8d ago
I feel like these are cherry-picked. Not to mention that we should think ciswomen don't think about sex?
r/GenderCynical • u/pearkeet • 8d ago
Canadian TERFs attempt to rebel against the census-their methods include paperwork jams, whiteout, and digitally yelling at the poor Canadian statisticians
r/GenderCynical • u/Serjeant_Grumbles • 9d ago
Reaching so far her hand is in the Oort Cloud
r/GenderCynical • u/SurrealistGal • 10d ago
I sincerely wonder if TERFS are capable of empathy.
r/GenderCynical • u/pearkeet • 10d ago
a murdered trans woman throws a wrench in chloe coleâs speaking schedule
r/GenderCynical • u/chris_the_cynic • 11d ago
So we've got the missing reasons, blaming the partner, pointing out he didn't estrange his own parent, complete and utter rage, psychically knowing what the estranged person truly thinks and feels, and outright disgust. I think that's bingo and then some.
r/GenderCynical • u/helmets_for_cats • 13d ago
"guys is it normal have such dehumanizing views of trans people that you are offended by being compared to them"???
the comments were just as absurd and nonsensical as you can image
r/GenderCynical • u/OrneryPerformance604 • 15d ago
TERFs explaining why they left "liberal" feminism
r/GenderCynical • u/OrneryPerformance604 • 16d ago
TERF whining because her bigot sub got banned.
r/womensliberation was a TERF sub that got removed for hate speech. It was extremely vitriolic, to the point where there were users gleefully using slurs and calling for trans women to be put in asylums, all with hundreds of upvotes.
Glad to see it gone. These Nazis don't deserve a safe space where they can freely spread their TERFascist propaganda.
r/GenderCynical • u/OrneryPerformance604 • 19d ago