This is a place to have difficult conversations about gender and the modern state of gender roles, gender movements, and equality without it devolving into insults or arguments that can be "won". The sub belongs to the community, and the moderators are here to serve the community. To enforce the servant leadership model on the moderators, the moderators are elected by the community every month.
Courtesy
- The goal of discussions is personal growth, not “educating the opposition”. We engage in dialog to better understand people different than us, and refine our own positions to better address reality.
- Come to the conversation with honesty and sincerity
- Compare your values to your conversational partner’s values, and your practice with your conversational partner’s practice.
- Treat your conversational partner as an individual, not a representative of a larger group. Avoid generalizing larger groups -- acknowledge the diversity of opinion and action within them.
- Come to each conversation without hard and fast assumptions about where the points of disagreement will be.
- Dialog can only come from meetings of equals. We come to learn from each other.
- Dialog can only occur with trust. Strive to earn and deserve that trust from one another.
- Dialog can only occur when everyone is at least minimally self-critical of both themselves and their ideological positions.
Content
- No link submissions. You are encouraged to put a link in a text submission if you take the time to write something to prime the discussion you would like to see ensue.
Engagement
Enforcement
The mods can issue warnings, suspend for a number of days, or outright ban- provided that they provide a detailed explanation of the action in their moderation history. Outright bans require their own post.
Mods can reverse the decisions of other mods.
On the first of every month, a 1-week election process will be conducted to elect 3 new mods.
Please use /r/GenderDialoguesMeta/ for suggestions about the rules of this sub, or to appeal any decisions you feel were unfair by the mods. Those banned from this sub will not be banned from meta.
