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Oct 3 2025, 11:49 AM
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(Sep 28 2025, 7:44 PM)YesYourNigel I imagine Vexxed is pulling the same shit as Ovarit was, in that it's pretending to be "feminist", but also claims it's "for all women". "All women" coincidentally only referring to conservative women and a rare quasi-feminist woman who makes sure to tiptoe around feminism enough so as not to get conservative women pissy. Libfem women apparently don't have a place in this space for "all women", even though they make up a huge number of women irl.
Yes, I've always found it somewhat ironic, and I probably brought it up in previous rants on this website, about how it's not really for "all women" when a majority of conservative women crowd out other women. As evidenced by the women in this thread alone, some do not participate on Vexxed because of the current atmosphere; this includes those who deleted their accounts, those who don't log in anymore, and those who just don't want to sign up based on what they see. That clearly means that the idea of being for "all women" is not actually happening.
The good news about Vexxed is that it sounds like they are more open to trying to make a change than Ovarit was. It sounds like they weren't expecting the site to get to this state, from what I've heard.
On the topic of trying to be a website for "all women," something that I've suggested to both a Vexxed mod and a woman who said she happened to be going to meet a Vexxed mod, and something that I had suggested in Ovarit in the past, is
trust women to make their own circles/communities! It doesn't have to be a completely chaotic free for all where users can make as many circles as they want, it could be something like a level-capped perk. Like say at level 20 or something, a user can make their own circle, be the mod of it, have their own rules, invite whoever they want as mods. With such a system where users can actually make their own communities, I think that this gives Vexxed stuff the best of both worlds, in the sense that they can be more hands off and laissez-faire while communities can self-regulate and self-propagate as they desire. This would allow leftist/feminist spaces to form organically, women there would feel comfortable talking with each other in those communities if they know the mods of said communities are maybe more strict about removing stupid conservative comments or something, but if people making stupid conservative comments want to post their stupid conservative comments, they can go to a more "laissez-faire" circle and leave that community alone. Sounds like it'd be a win-win to me.
Like, honestly even if conservative women end up making their own circle, it would be a good thing overall: it could actually help contain the conservative spread all over the site, and then it means Vexxed can signal "hey this isn't a conservative site, I mean the conservative women had to go make their own circle." Like how Reddit has an r/conservative the Reddit trumpers roost at lol.
This would allow an actual sort of women's "free market of ideas." If somebody really cares about Marxist feminism, let them make a circle about it. If someone wants a space for black women, let them make a circle about it. If somebody really cares about Dianic witchcraft, let them make a circle about it. If someone doesn't like how the gender critical subreddit is running, if they think it's too conservative or too focused on making fun of TIPs or whatever, let them go make a different circle about gender critical with their own way of running it. Let people see the different ways communities can view and regulate conversation on the same topic. Let people see the wide variety of political stances that women can have.
I think fracturing of political opinions is a perfectly natural and organic thing. It frequently happens on the left and in leftist communities, sometimes to the detriment of solidarity, but sometimes I think it's necessary in order to let smaller voices have a place to breathe and organize their thoughts if they don't feel heard. I actually think the slowness of community creation on Ovarit and Vexxed and the resultant cramming of "all women" into one small space, not only does not work, it is to the benefit of right-wing rhetoric. It's a common trope that conservatives are able to put aside any disagreements and work together for their political cause (of being fucking evil assholes??), while liberals and leftists are more likely to disagree on some specific principles and fracture. Obviously, that left-right divide is going to immediately happen, and if there is no room for the left to split off and discuss amongst themselves, then they're just going to dwindle in numbers and possibly disappear while they find places where they can. The right don't care if there's leftist people squabbling in a shared space, as long as they have a place where they can share their sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, or just completely insane and illogical rhetoric with each other without actual repercussions, they're perfectly content squatting there.
I actually think that the lack of the women's liberation circle right from the start of Vexxed, with GenderCritical being there from the beginning (iirc), is what caused the rapid decay of leftist/feminist viewpoints on there to the rise of conservative/right-wing viewpoints. The left/right divide happened, as it inevitably does anywhere, and the left did not really have a place they could even
try to collectivize at.
I remember when I was active on Ovarit, I would frequently notice that users who I thought were thoughtful and made consistently good posts had the women's liberation circle as one of their active circles on their profiles. Meanwhile, users who I found to be... kind of fucking dumb and irritating frequently had GenderCritical and any other subreddits that were focused on transgenderism as their active profiles. There was a pretty stark divide between those who participated actively in the women's liberation circle versus those who did not. In hindsight, maybe the delay in having a feminist-oriented circle was what accelerated the right-wing slant of Vexxed.
I hope they can get the feminist circle up soon, I think that'll be a good start to try and pull Vexxed out of its right-wing entrenchment.
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