Hello SRS!

I want to start by saying that this isn't going to be one of those posts in which someone explains how they used to hate SRS, then something happened to them, and they realized what oppression is. I was already a socialist/feminist/SJW/whatever when I joined the fempire. I just want to acknowledge the great thing that is SRS, and talk a little about why it's so great.

I started using reddit in high school, as a means to pass the time in a boring computer science class and through a summer without a job. After a while, I realized that reddit is often misogynistic, racist, homophobic, creepy, etc. I figured that this was due mostly to the demographics, and I didn't see any point in replying to the offensive comments posted, because I knew I would be downvoted into oblivion. I joined a few radically-minded subreddits––/r/socialism, /r/communism, /r/feminism, to name a few. Yet these groups are all small and not incredibly active, like the rest of reddit. I also joined /r/TwoXChromosomes, hoping for a feminist slant in a large community. TwoX bored me though, and it wasn't as radical as I had hoped it would be (ever notice how many posts on relationships there are over there?).

Anyways, I stopped reading reddit for a few years, but, recently, I have been looking to get back in the game, and that's when I discovered /r/ShitRedditSays. Finally, here was a subreddit devoted to undermining oppression by calling out offensive posts and comments. I never truly realized how terrible reddit was until I started reading through the posts here. Moreover, the commenters here, rather than trying to argue with these people, have formed a community around making fun them all while being incredibly exasperated with the state of reddit/the world. In my activist work, I have tried to argue with many sexists, racists, homophobes, etc., and have learned that it's almost entirely pointless. To build a movement, you just have to bring in people who are already leaning your way. So, I really appreciate what SRS does: calling out oppression, without trying to convert the biggest offenders. SRS has built a community (or I guess fempire) for people who are oppressed and their allies to simply vent, and this is a much needed space.

Anyways, I made a new account because I was too lazy to unsubscribe from all the shitty subs that I subscribed to in the past, and to start fresh based on my newfound love for a particular part of reddit.

TL;DR: I got sick of reddit, a couple years later, found SRS, and plan on being an active participant in the ongoings of the fempire.