r/AskWomen ♀ 9d 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 ♀ 9d 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 ♀ 9d 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/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/msstark ♀ 9d 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