This is the first time in about 15 years that he will finally see the sunlight.
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Sincere question, because I used Reddit frequently but I pretty much just stuck to just commenting and posting in my niche little interest subs. So I'm learning all kinds of new issues and drama about the site/company itself I was in the dark on before lol. So I've only seen bits and pieces of what awkwardturtle's whole deal was, and it struck me as being so over-the-top that I assumed it was farcical, like someone who hates those kinds of social progressive ideals and wants to mock them and make them look bad. Not sure if that's a correct read at all, though, or how likely it is.
Like "locking so men can't comment" it so inflammatory and petty, I do live in a very liberal city and am involved in many different areas of social progression both personally and professionally and I cannot think of anyone who would actually believe in, say, or do things like that. Not only because the majority of sincere feminists believe in equality between all genders and not "misandry" period, but also because it makes the whole movement look like garbage. No one sincere in their beliefs would play so heavily into the dumb stereotypes in such a public and visible way like that. It's like someone who wants to make fun of feminists vs being an actual feminist.
Not to say there aren't people in those ideological groups who don't totally miss the point and do actually say and believe stupid shit like that, but they are such a minority and a thorn in the side for those of us doing real work to make actual progress. So powermod could be sincere and just fully out of touch with what they are choosing to align themselves with.
But idk. I've just seen so many other examples of their word choices and such that is just really inconsistent with what actual social progressives would say or do. My understanding is that he's a man, but he mods the women's sub. Like an actual male feminist wouldn't insert himself in that space in such a way, spewing queer stereotypes in queer subs, etc. Seems so off the mark to me that I didn't think it might actually be sincere lol
This makes loads more sense than anything else. Everything they've said has always been a little too on the nose trying to be '' ''woke'' '' (is double quoting a thing? Hopefully my meaning comes across as intended)
Ahh, that makes more sense. Some people are shitty down to their core. Yuck!
It was meant to be petty and inflammatory. It's not about any kind of equality or justice or movement of any kind. Bringing those things into it just muddies the waters and makes things more complicated than it needs to be. It was 100% a mod power tripping and enjoying the fact that no matter how bullshit the reason, nothing would be done.
I mean, there's a whole huge contingent of "feminists" getting popular these days who have explicitly and extremely bioessentialist misandrist beliefs, TERFs, so sadly I'm not super sure you're right, but it's entirely possible. You do tend to have to look holistically at people's actions and speech to figure out what they really believe, oftentimes.