I didn't believe some of the stories about the current state of Reddit. I was wrong.

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Yes, I've read many posts the current state of reddit. But today, somehow I thought it can't be that bad if I just go looking for some funny videos.

Boy, was I wrong. This post was at the top of my feed, and briefly scrolling through the comments got me out of there without looking at anything else ☠️

Oh, well, I tried...

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This is just a reflection of a single moderator on Reddit, not Reddit entirely. You could get the same thing here in the lemme verse

Sure, but here there are many communities about subjects instead of one.

YES. And yet people keep complaining about duplicate communities existing, like they want one mod team to be in charge of an entire topic of discussion.

Its not that at all. Its that there is currently no way to group similar communities together into a single feed. So users have to go to each community individually rather than being able to see multiple communities with the same or similar topic in a single place.

Yea that's a legit complaint. That's not all of them though, it's pretty common to hear an argument for community consolidation.

A moderator of a big community. And the quality of the comments, or lack thereof, is just as important.

"Female" is a slur or something? What?

When it's used like that it is.

You wouldn't describe a man as "a male", and you wouldn't refer to your mother as "a female".

I certainly would and do describe people by "male" or "female" daily, along with everyone in the military, and anyone else that isn't afraid of words.

"Female" as an adjective isn't the problem. The problem is "female" as a noun.

You can describe a person as being female all you like, but if you start calling them "a female" & defined purely in terms of the existence of their sex organs, you're in the wrong.

Absolutely, just the issue isn't with the word "female" or "male", it's with the objectification and sexualization. We don't have to vilify a word because it describes the subject of undue sexualization. "Person" or "human" could also be used, but I'd bet nobody would raise a stink about that.

If it were a slur or something, that'd be completely different, but this is just a term that people don't use on a normal basis, unless they're part of a smaller group (military, science, maybe ESL) that does use it more than the general populace. Just because you're not used to it, doesn't make it wrong. Vilify the person, not the normal language they use.