There's a certain way that women go about getting what they want in a social setting, which is inherent to female nature.

Women are not fighters. Lacking the ability to get what they want through violence, they manipulate others into doing their bidding. This is how it goes:

- Consensus building: the first phase requires the leveraging of social allies to build consensus around the objective pursued. Chats, first individual and then involving more and more women, will establish reciprocal trust and agreement on a common version of events. When critical mass is reached, it's time for phase two.

- Shaming: in phase two, shame is brought to bear to impose the consensus on the wider group. The consensus is presented as the obviously correct and only moral idea; opposition to it is first implied and soon enough openly stated to be abominable, as opposers and any who tolerate them are ostracized to coherce them into compliance.

- Policing: once overt opposition to the consensus has been socially repressed, requests that the consensus idea be enforced can be advanced with guaranteed success. Other people, usually males, are tasked with providing the actual policing (violence); the women themselves remain as overseers.

Phase one, consensus building, is what's currently happening with feminists and TRP. Take a look at this:

Documenting digital feminist activism: Mapping feminist responses to new media misogyny and rape culture

£110,000 have been budgeted for feminists to produce a study of 'internet sexism' and 'digital feminist activism'. In case you're wondering whether I'm not reading too much into it, this is what this group is already discussing.

The objective of this study is not to study anything: they've already got the list of 'sexist' internet communities down, and they certainly spend their days reading them and bitching about them online.

No, the objective of this study is so that their ideas can be published in a prestigious journal. TRP and the rest will be officially condemned as sexist, misogynistic and evil by 'science'. They will be pathologized, the men partecipating reduced to malaptive crazies taking out their frustrations against women, and 'resistance' against them will be glorified and elevated to an important social function. All women will be tasked with being onboard with this, under the implicit threat of exclusion (the worst social threat to a woman).

This is consensus building. Once it's done, this and similar studies will become the cornerstones of concerned campaigns to have 'internet misogyny' banned or penalized. There will be panels of Very Serious People reading them in Committee rooms on both sides of the Atlantic, using them as the 'scientific' basis for the 'need' to act against this 'wave' of horror. That will be phase two, when male naysayers will be shamed into compliance.

Phase three, policing, will consist of legal harassment, such as 'visits' by police officers to people who are caught spreading wrongthink (if you think this is impossible, look up what they already do with people spreading anti-refugee messages in Europe), and social ostracism; banks and internet providers, in the first instances, will be made to cut off offending communities, and then doxxing will be used to ruin the lives of men who don't keep strict anonymity.

So, lesson learned: the counterwave is coming, it's going to be nasty, and it's going to be heavy-handed. Use a unique nickname, don't give out personal info, and don't assume that just because this is the internet you won't be made to suffer RL consequences. They won't play nice, they won't play fair and they won't play by male rules. Adapt or perish.

Tip G_Petronius for their post.