{"id":254,"date":"2003-07-08T10:53:51","date_gmt":"2003-07-08T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/07\/08\/anti-feminist-discussion-forums-down\/"},"modified":"2003-07-08T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2003-07-08T18:53:51","slug":"anti-feminist-discussion-forums-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Anti-feminist discussion forums down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Curiously, the two big “anti-feminist feminist” discussion boards have recently been removed by their supporting sites. SheThinks<\/a>, an astroturf campus organization created by the right-wing Independant Women’s Forum<\/a>, removed the online discussion board as part of a site redesign – although the rest of SheThinks.org seems to have been left online. Just as well – the SheThinks.org board was dominated by overt misogynists and feminist-haters who mainly used the board as a place for bad-mouthing the much more successful and lively Ms Magazine boards<\/a>. In essence, the SheThinks board was a spin-off of the Ms. boards, a home for anti-feminist posters who had been booted off of Ms.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the folks at Ifeminists.com<\/a> – whose public discussion forum actually had a life of its own, rather than just being a satallite of a pro-feminist board – have taken their boards down. Wendy McElroy <\/a>says this is because the boards were too successful – she no longer had time to moderate them. (Update: I just came across this livejournal post<\/a>, talking about hypocripsies in McElroy’s moderation, and just basically trashing McElroy on many other grounds.)<\/p>\n

As far as I know, there are no longer any public forums online sponsored by anti-feminist feminists (that is, right wing anti-feminists who self-identify as feminists). (I’m using “right-wing” broadly here; McElroy is a libertarian, not a Republican).<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/b>: McElroy later reinstated her discussion board.<\/p>\n

For folks interested in genuinely feminist discussion boards…
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\nFor folks interested in genuinely feminist discussion boards, the Ms Magazine forums <\/a>are the biggest and most active – although they can also be very harsh on newcomers (countless troll invasions have made them a bit paranoid), and the discussions tend to be dominated by radical feminists, which might make other sorts of feminists uncomfortable (if you’re pro-porn, don’t even bother going there). Also, some of the posters there are really mean, and a few of them are openly bigoted against transsexuals. (Other posters are not bigots, and some are transsexual themselves). On the other hand, the best posters at Ms are incredibly smart and well-informed.<\/p>\n

Empower<\/a>, a spin-off the the Ms boards, isn’t as active, but is more user-friendly; a good board if you want to avoid being flame-roasted by mean people, and you don’t mind slower-paced discussions.<\/p>\n

Bust Magazine’s boards <\/a>are very active, dominated by a younger and more liberal set. For some reason, the Bust forum folks hate the Ms forum folks and vice-versa (possibly the split is over the porn issue, since many Bust posters are pro-porn). I haven’t read this forum as much (I’m a Ms forum person), but the posters seem to have a lot of fun.<\/p>\n

The Margins<\/a>. Women-only forums, mainly for radical feminists. Extremely well-written and researched discussions take place here; even if you can’t participate, it’s rewarding to lurk. (Or that was the case six months ago; I haven’t lurked here in a while).<\/p>\n

There are tons of others, but I’m not gonna go describing each one… look around, you’ll find ’em..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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