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The One Thing You Can't Discuss On Reddit

When 'diversity and inclusion' becomes exclusion.

The One Thing You Can't Discuss On Reddit

When 'diversity and inclusion' becomes exclusion.

Sue Donym

Oct 26

Reddit is one of the biggest discussion platforms on the internet - after all, it did kill the message board. You can create a ‘subreddit’ or what we in the bad old days called a ‘message board subsection’ to talk about anything. And I mean anything. You can talk about the National Football League, ask whether you’re an asshole/practice your creative writing, ask for legal advice, whether COVID vaccines are a product of the saucer people, or hating Grandpa Joe from the 1970s film Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.

You can talk about literally anything. Except one thing. Well, one thing and a few things related to that one thing.

That ‘thing’ is homosexuality.

Want to talk about how much you hate an obscure non-player character in a Pokemon game? Go nuts. Want to post endless violent pornography (which I won’t link)? Go ahead. But you can’t have an open and free, nor frank discussion about homosexuality. None of the mainstream ‘LGBT’ subreddits allow people who are exclusively attracted to the same sex - which is, frankly, everyone’s understanding of what homosexuality is, even trans rights activists, who say one thing in the streets and another between the sheets. Talking about homosexuality will get you banned. Creating your own lesbian subreddit for homosexuals after the ‘main’ subreddit, ‘actual lesbians’ became full of doughy men bragging about their gender euphoria girlcock lesbianism? Well, ‘truelesbians’ copped a ban for ‘promoting hate’. Gay men aren’t exempt - ‘truegaymen’ was banned nine months ago for the same reason - ‘promoting hate’.

God forbid, either, that you have view that the alphabet soup is ridiculous, and that perhaps, we should return to the original acronym. ‘LGBDroptheT’ which argued that sexual orientation has nothing to do with gender identity and the lesbian and gay liberation movement had nothing to do with gender identity also received a ban for ‘promoting hate’. Such actions echo the threatening mantras directed at organizations like LGB Alliance that ‘there is no LGB without the T’ - which is often accompanied by a torrent of homophobic abuse.

The supposed ‘LGBT subreddits’ are more like a message board version of the film Get Out than safe spaces for lesbian and gay people.

A year on from the massive ban wave on Reddit that was driven by a small cabal of well-connected users, and you still can’t discuss homosexuality on Reddit.

Hell, you can be right-wing and post on ‘r/conservative’, but ‘rightwinglgbt’ was banned. That’s right - Reddit thinks that LGBT people who might be right-wing shouldn’t have a platform, because it might ‘promote hate’. What hate? Who knows. This is particularly problematic when supposedly gay-focused subreddits (which are mostly run by straight people identifying otherwise), which ban anyone who expresses an opinion that isn’t expressly worshipful of communism. Turns out being a homosexual to the right of Josef Stalin these days is hateful and you shouldn’t be discussing it on Reddit.

I’m not right-wing - but I am a homosexual, and shouldn’t I be free to discuss or hold any political view I want? When did my sexual orientation become a political orientation? When was it decided that the freedom to hold any belief didn’t apply to me because I like eating pussy? My choice at the ballot box doesn’t determine my sexuality.

Reddit’s ban on the homosexual is, well, an issue, to put it mildly - you can discuss anything there, except the basic, easily observable fact that lesbians do not have a penis, never have had penises, and will never have penises - unless you’re posting on ‘r/lesbian’ which is a pornography subreddit for straight men, where lesbians don’t have penises. An actual biological female who’s attracted to solely biological females, though? Well, you’re not a straight guy jacking off, so fuck you.

It’s not just Reddit, either. Reddit’s ban on homosexuality is symptomatic of a wider problem with ‘diversity and inclusion’ or ‘banning hate’. Reddit is just following a trend. Too often, both those things are being directed by upper-middle class heterosexuals (whether they identify that way or not), telling everyone else what ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ really mean. This often amounts to either including them in categories of people where they don’t belong - like our aforementioned doughy straight men claiming to be lesbians, or centering their saintly guilt over the actions of ancestors they probably can’t even name e.g, Robin DeAngelo. In the process, ‘diversity and inclusion’ creates outcomes where lesbians and gays are banned from discussing their lives on the 7th most popular website in the United States. That’s not diversity and inclusion, that’s just plain old homophobia.

A year on from the initial ban waves, will Reddit repudiate its homophobic actions? Can it change? Or will homosexuality continue to be considered ‘promoting hate’ for excluding heterosexuals wanting to wear our skin?

Author’s note: This article was updated shortly after publication to include a discussion of ‘LGB Drop The T’.

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“The men struggle to distinguish porn scripts from real sexual assault situations. One observes, ”That feels like a sexual assault.” Another speculates that the situation before him is a #MeToo story. At the conclusion of the video, it is revealed that all of the scenarios were taken from pornography.”

Now we’re connecting some dots.

Merry Christmas Joanne Rowling!!!! 🎅 🌲

Can we all wish JK Rowling a happy Christmas this year please. Like can it be a thing. Let’s all wish JK a happy Christmas, on December 25th.

I have been looking for this screenshot bc every time I think about how many liberal feminists used language like this all the time 5-10 years ago, I wonder how the same group of supposed feminists can now so heavily promote the inclusion of transwomen in government (and everything else) and not understand the problem.

You can literally reword the above statement as: if you are not a biological female, which is a unique experience, then you should not be representing women in government and you certainly should not be making laws about that solely affect a group that you are not a part of, and never will be a part of.

I'm so sorry to hear about all these situations. I have two adopted sisters, one of whom is on a permanent disability waiver (my parents are her court appointed guardians for life and for now she is 19 and lives at home, but she has the option to live in a group home if that is something she really wants to do) and another is on a CADI waiver until she turns 21 in 2 years (plus a third adopted sister who is 22 and very intelligent but lies to anyone she gets close to and then a foster sister who is also 22 who struggles with mental processing due to physical abuse she suffered the first 17 years of her life before we met her, but those 2 sisters are another story for another time).

Anyway, I grew up being a PCA (Personal Care Assistant, which is NOT the same as a CNA- certified nursing assistant, although sometimes PCA is used to describe CNAs depending on the area) and recruited many of my friends into getting trained for the job bc there simply have never been enough PCAs/DSPs (it's confusing but PCAs are thru an agency and people receive a certain # of hours, whereas direct support professionals (DSPs) are based on the amount of money in a disability or CADI waiver that whoever writes the waiver decides to use on personal care services for the disabled person). We switched from PCAs to DSPs when my sisters got waivers around 8 or 9 years ago. I have no clue who normally writes these waivers, I just know that my mom is able to do it herself- because she understands how to set up healthcare budgets via percentages and provide examples and backup information to prove why something is needed- since she has a Masters in Nursing and decades of experience in both management and patient care.

At the end of the day, living in one of the greatest states there is for disability benefits (at least for children, I can't speak much beyond my one 19 year old sister about adult disability benefits), most people can only afford about $15 at most for their kids on waivers, and traditional PCA agencies offer even less. The other problem is that they are often not full time jobs, and coordinating the schedules of multiple clients to make more money can be a pain.

I don't blame people with disabilities for this in the least, I just wonder what can be done to make things better for everyone who needs PCA services. I left the best PCA job on earth at $16/hr for about 5 hours twice a week plus another client at about 20 hours a week sporadically placed for $13.50/hr to move over a state and get my nursing degree. It is also only because my friends already understood the chaos of my household that they eventually became great PCAs for my sisters. Currently most agencies , whether traditional PCA hours or fiscal agencies for waivers, require only easy, often pointless online training modules which are easily clicked through.

I really would like to see physical in person training for non-violent crisis intervention, the nurtured heart approach to trauma etc. and just some general real training for how to care for people with physical disabilities. Now, that might cost a few hundred dollars per person but could be paid off afterward or thru agencies or something and that would allow people to really know what they are doing. I would love to see some seriously increased pay to at least $20 an hour starting wage. Something that might help attract more people to the job. Anyway, that's my take.

Disabled people aren't being class traitors when they report on their civil rights and humanity being violated