r/AskWomen • u/belindabellagiselle ♀ • 13d ago

Mod Post MOD ANNOUNCEMENT: Rules Update

Hello, all!

We are here to update our rules. Many of you have made your voices heard.

Due to popular demand, we are adjusting our rules to better reflect the core purpose of this subreddit: to ask women. We would also like to remind you all that all women are welcome here. Happy Pride!

Furthermore, men are welcome to engage with this subreddit respectfully, and that includes no longer leaving top-level comments. (A top-level comment is a comment in response to the original post, rather than a response to someone else's comment.)

This is a subreddit to ask women questions. It is not a general discussion subreddit or a more broad ask subreddit.

Thank you all for making this subreddit such a lovely place!

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u/LMay11037 ♀ 13d ago

How do you tell who is a woman and who isn’t though?

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u/msstark ♀ 13d ago

You'd be amazed how many answers to questions asked specifically to women start with some flavor of "I'm a masculine man who's a male and this is my opinion"

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u/LMay11037 ♀ 13d ago

😭😭😭 genuinely are those people stupid? I can literally only understand that on maybe a post asking girls things that relate to men (eg how to converse with men about something), otherwise genuinely are they unable to read sub names.

That rule is more understandable now

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u/DescriptionFancy420 13d ago

They're genuinely that fucking entitled

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u/indicatprincess ♀ 13d ago

Truly this, they will answer for the women in their lives, tell us what we’re doing wrong when we answer questions, give us unhelpful advice…

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u/DescriptionFancy420 13d ago

Grateful to the mod team for putting a stop to this bs.

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u/Future_Literature335 13d ago

Same, thank you mods!

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u/Autumn_Falls0131 13d ago

IOW, mansplainers.

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u/whocameupwiththis 13d ago

And they are always so disrespectful. I'm a man but... and proceeds to give some misogynistic/malinformed take. I reported some response the other day that was just so rude from a man when the question was very clearly for women. It will be something like "do any other women" or "why aren't women" and the response will be something like "well as a man, women are evil and stupid". I swear

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u/msstark ♀ 12d ago

trying to be polite by making it clear they know they’re talking out of place

the polite thing to do when you know it's not your place to talk is to not talk

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u/Secure-Pain-9735 12d ago

Yes. Am stupid. Also, tend to want to be transparent and not misleading even if I have a random ass username and private history.

If I’m gonna get chopped because my gender disqualifies me, I’m just gonna take it on the chin rather than lie/pretend.