So what makes something a woman's issue?

Not trying to usurp our wonderful mod here, but the couple of threads recently locked got me thinking. Yeah, abortion, breasts, birth control, vaginas are women's issues, but they're also an issue for society. Baby names, is that really a woman's issue? What makes you guys start up a thread in here instead of another forum?

 

hmm... good question!

i start threads in here when i want advice from women. if i think it's something that pertains to females in general, and i want to avoid as much trolling as possible.

as for what consitutes a womens' issue... honestly i can't think of anything that wouldn't qualify. even if it was a thread about men's behavior while around other men, i think women might want to know about it, and it would be okay. perhaps there are better forums for some topics, though.. hmm hard to say.

i guess topics that relate to women and their roles/lives/interests??

gotta think more on this one

 

I don't know.

 

I think all gender politics could characterized simultaneously as mens issues or womens issues. Even things that seemed to be defined as mens issues like father's "rights" are things that women's rights groups have positions statements on, whether in support or opposition. The only thing that distiguishes them would probably be health issues like breast cancer, periods, testicular cancer, or ball fungus.

 

Here's what the explaination on the main Hip Forums Page says.

Not gender in general, WOMEN.

I've been asked on several occasions recently to move posts which some members and other Mods felt were not womyn's issues and should have been placed elsewhere. It is also up to the Mod of the forum to try to decipher what does and what doesn't belong in a certain forum. Threads are moved all the time, in almost all forums. "Men are scum" is not an appropriate discussion, as it attacks 50% of the population and is intentionally inflamitory. Discussions about exclusively men's issues should usually be on the Men's Issues Forum. Things that have nothing to do with the forum, spam ect, are elimated as soon as they are seen. "My boyfreind left me and I don't know what to do." Is usually something for the Relationships Forum. Arts and Crafts are for that forum. There IS overlap between Parenting and WIF, but often, if popular enough, they will be kept here. If exclusively a parenting issue, it will usually be moved. "America will control the Internet" was not only NOT a womyn's issue, it was repeat posted more than 8 times on all different forums, ALL of them were deleted. The more inflamitory a subject is, the more attention it will receive from the Moderation staff.

Yeah, it's a judgement call. And somewhat subjective. We're human.

 

FTR, the thread about the dude who lost his job in day care was closed due to a request from the original poster, stilanas.

 

I wasn't trying to say that you were wrong at all about closing those threads down, I'm just wondering as to what makes somethign a Woman's issue, what makes it pertain to women. Jobs pertain to women, sex pertains to women, television and the media pertains to women... so what makes it something to post in this forum instead of another? Just pondering, not trying to be inflammatory

 

I know, ihmurria. I didn't think you were being inflamitory at all.

 

Anything that bothers women? Wouldnt that make it a womens issue? or am I making to much of a narrow statment....