Feminist blogger's moderation policies

**frostyboy** · 26th-June-2008

Have a this feminist blogger's comment moderation policies: http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/20...ing-this-blog/

Here are some of the highlights:

I am adopting a no-tolerance policy as to all abusive language. I am not going to allow it again– ever, for any reason. Please do not post anything that is or might be construed or understood to be racist, sexist, misogynist, classist, ageist, transphobic or ableist. Please do not attack or slam heterosexual women, lesbian women, mothers, children, animals, women without children, married women, single women, divorced women, spinsters, or minorities. You can criticize acts, ideas, and theories without using abusive language towards individuals.

Notice how she warns against posting comments that attack women and minorities, but doesn't warn against posting such comments about men.

Women will not be blamed here ever again. Do not attempt to get around this rule by calling what you are doing “holding women accountable” or demanding that women “take responsibility.” You are no woman’s judge and jury, where do you get off? Blaming women hurts women, shuts down discussion and causes women to go silent. Let’s leave that kind of thing to the Religious Right, conservatives, leftists, liberals, neocons, misogynists and sexists of every stripe who can’t rush too quickly to blame a woman for whatever. They’ve got woman-blaming covered.

Don't even get me started on that one.

Please do not make sweeping generalizations about any group of women — young, old, mothers, heterosexual, lesbian, white, women of color, Third Wavers, Second Wavers, “white feminists,” fundamentalist women, women in various religious groups, Christian women, Muslim women, etc. This generates heat, not light. It closes down conversations and alienates women.

Men not included. Again.

I acknowledge that as the owner of the blog, she should rightly be able to choose which comments to approve, however her moderation policy is undeniably hypocritical.

**Incognito** · 26th-June-2008

LOL....I'm sorry....but it kind of cracks me up "do not slam or attack" this, or that, or animals? I wonder how she feels about liver and spinach.

**Incognito** · 26th-June-2008

I think she forgot to add to that list not to slam or attack vegetables and minerals.

**Incognito** · 27th-June-2008

Quote from frostyboy

Have a this feminist blogger's comment moderation policies: http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/20...ing-this-blog/

Here are some of the highlights:

Notice how she warns against posting comments that attack women and minorities, but doesn't warn against posting such comments about men.

Don't even get me started on that one.

Men not included. Again.

I acknowledge that as the owner of the blog, she should rightly be able to choose which comments to approve, however her moderation policy is undeniably hypocritical.

Yes she included everything but the kitchen sink- EXCEPT men....that just goes to show you how tunnel-visioned and sexist she really is. (And that, of course, is not a laughing matter...)

**Marx** · 27th-June-2008

It seems her Sunday lunch has a higher priority in her life than any man. I wonder how she feels about her adult offsprings?

**frostyboy** · 27th-June-2008

The woman who runs that blog is standing in this year's US presidential election:

I am a candidate for President of the United States in the 2008 elections on the Free Soil Party ticket. If you’d like to read my platform, my views on the issues, if you’d like to support my campaign or just read about it, go here:
Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff for President
Elect Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff Wiki
Free Soil Party
Heart

http://www.womensspace.org/phpBB2/su...tial-campaign/

**frostyboy** · 27th-June-2008

I suppose that she'd refuse to publish this comment on the basis that it is insulting towards all animals:

Men are animals.

This comment would probably be rejected on the grounds that it is "offensive to pigs":

Men are chauvinistic pigs.

However, this one is perfect and would almost certainly be approved:

All men are rapists.

**khankrumthebulgar** · 2nd-July-2008

Many Blogs become Echo chambers. Where there is no diversity of opinion. And only those who toe the line are approved. Eventually it becomes an Ego Trip for the Moderator or their Favored folk, and others leave. This happened to the blog at Mensnewsdaily.com and it was shut down. One of my favorite past blogs was the notorious Misogyny-central.com run by Professor Bates as in Norman Bates.

It was a lively place where Fembots showed up to insult us, and were trashed it was great sport and comedy and a place to develop your arguments and skills. Most Feminists cannot handle true diversity of opinion. And censor or block Men who raise too much protest. Shakespeare's Sister, Feministing.com, Pandagon.net and reclusiveleftist all come to mind.

Be polite but state your rationale is the sole critieria I have for my own blog. If you are polite I will not censor your comments. Too many high traffic sites become a target for Feminist Hackers and those who want to shut it down.