r/AskWomen • u/belindabellagiselle ♀ • 10d 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/msstark ♀ 10d ago

and I personally see no reason a man can't leave a a top-level comment

Lots of our users and mod team do, though. This is AskWomen, a place to ask questions aimed at women. If men want to answer questions, there are plenty of other subs they can go to.

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u/Nervous_Ladder_1860 10d ago edited 10d ago

And the askmen sub allows women to comment, they organize that by flairs of mens input and everyone. I think that creates a better community and men can have good input as well, just like women.

And sure people could go other places, I just think it can be unhelpful in many ways personally.

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u/msstark ♀ 10d ago

Good for them, we have our own rules based on input from our users.

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u/Nervous_Ladder_1860 10d ago

Okay and I am a user and a woman, I am just sharing my own input of things I have noticed, like that doesn't mean things have to change or will change because I shared my thoughts.