What you are missing is that by calling you, personally, sexist, people aren’t advocating for political change. They’re asking you to not be a dick and not discriminate/generalize based on gender/sex, which is what these memes generally do while also mocking female-identifying persons as being boring and vapid while male-identifying people are quirky and fun.

(usually these memes tell on themselves by stemming from a place of not knowing enough women on a personal level, but I digress)

They did say it wouldn’t apply to NSFW content; not trying to contradict what you’re saying at all, just adding clarity! To me this seems like a further slap in the face to the NSFW posters who drive a lot of traffic, just like it is to mods. Having to moderate more low-quality content for free sounds like an absolute chore.

Reddit’s choice to throw NSFW communities under the bus in favor of ad revenue is certainly a choice when a ton of NSFW content almost built that site. It used to be on the front page with everything else for goodness sake.

Whether corporations like it or not, availability of NSFW content can make or break a site like reddit/Tumblr. People are gonna go where the porn is.