No time for a full post today, but I just thought I’d draw your attention to what may be the creepiest fucking Reddit thread I’ve ever seen. (In the past week, anyway.) It’s a discussion in the Pics subreddit of the picture at right here, titled Biggest fear of having a daughter.
A Redditor called SeeingYouHating has assembled a sort of “best-of” — by which I mean “worst-of” — compilation of the creepiest comments in the thread, many of which have, yep, dozens of upvotes.
Enjoy?
My parents weren’t nudists but they did have little to no body shame. Taking a shower then strolling naked around the house to get to the bedroom to get dressed wasn’t an unusual thing for them, or me and my brothers. I think it didn’t screw me up too much, though right-wingers might beg to differ. 😉
I have an issue grasping what seems to be mainstream society’s aversion for one’s parents’ or children’s sexuality, or how the naked body is sexualized by default so that glimpsing your dad’s penis (in a context where it’s not, you know, child abuse) is supposed to be this traumatic event. Even walking in on my parents having sex once was not half as bad as what is implied in the North American cultural zeitgeist.
Dobson, though, is still creepy.
Yeah…never been in “sexual competition” with my mother (eww) and actually had a great relationship with her as a teenager (not so much with my father), and other commentors on Reddit pointed out the creepiness of the fathers imagining kissing their teenage daughters on their lips (at least I think it’s creepy, I know some families do that, to each their own, my family barely hugs), but by far the worst comment is the last one:
“As my friend scott put it ‘If i ever have a daughter I’m just going to kill her. She would probably grow up to be a whore. Shes gonna throw my last name out the window for the first guy she meets anyways. No sense in raising that.'”
Two things: 1) It’s better to have a DEAD daughter than one that has sex? What is wrong with this person? 2) I thought if we didn’t give up our last name we were ball-busting bitches? But it we do give up our last name we’re not worth raising? Yeah, I hope this person never has a daughter to screw up (or murder).
Oh agreed, BlackBloc. Nudity isn’t the problem. It’s all in the context.
I love how all of the old patriarchal conventions that we still follow today are somehow the fault of women. “Throw away” his name? What an asshole.
As the stepfather of a teenager, I really don’t see it as the father’s responsibility to protect the kid from consensual sex.
Except maybe with a grown-ass man who’s willing to fuck a 16-year-old even though she’s over the hill.
I used to worry, before I decided to embrace being non-parental, that I’d have a daughter, and I’d give her a version of The Talk that reflects my values, and some mandated reporter would catch wind of it and decide it was so non-sex-negative as to constitute abuse, and CPS would come, and it would be a hassle even in the highly likely circumstance that CPS didn’t find it abusive.
I’m glad … er … other people waded in and found the source of that (posted from the bus stop before work, so it’s hard to follow up). I just used to hear it on Al Franken’s old radio program a lot. He liked to bring it up every so often if they were talking about Focus On The Family or Dobson. Wiiiiith good reason. Who trusts a guy talking about parenting/gayness who thinks THAT is good advice?
I don’t think I saw anyone in my family naked after I was about 6 or 7. I know I used to see them naked before that. I don’t think it traumatized or affected me in any way.
Also, I’d like to thank my father for having absolutely no interest one way or the other in what I do with my vagina. My mom, on the other hand, was devastated that I won’t have sex and got really angry with me. Go figure. My mom’s kind of nuts. And I mean that in a … legitimately … nuts way.
It just struck me how these guys don’t want their daughters having icky, icky sex, but they’d like to screw other people’s daughters. And that’s totally fine.
Here’s the creepiest thing I’ve ever seen: http://msmagazine.com/blog/wp-content/themes/news_10/images/team/368.jpg
HAW HAW DAVID FUTRELLE HAS A FACE HAW HAW
what a loser, having a face
Who is the owner of that most splendid face? 😀
( I can tell you it doesn’t look good for your own side if you are solely judging a person by their looks.)
(or just judging looks in general)
The creepiest thing I have ever seen is a wannabe rapist of young teens…
He posted a whole screed about it too! Very creepy and disgusting.
He was not a round faced guy with a goatee and glasses though.
Bostonian – It was also creepy that this guy obsessed on another guy’s looks, repeatedly posting the same picture of him and trying to make weird comparisons between his looks and this other guy’s, as if that would prove something about the two of them other than “they look different, as people tend to.”
Indeed, Holly. The thing is, what makes someone creepy to me are their words and actions. Looks in and of themselves are not creepy to me.
ZOMG, you’re RIGHT! David Futrelle is chunky! And we should never listen to any but the most conventionally attractive. This pug-faced loser, for instance, is completely worthless as a human being.
Shit, Things Are Bad, get some new material, you’re starting to embarrass yourself.
I’m picturing TAB going on a “handsome face” crusade at his college, demanding that intellectuals be graded on their looks so that one knows if they’re truly worthy of being listened to or not, otherwise he and like 4 other students will stop writing essays in protest.
Given the ideas of “activism” by MRAs, it makes perfect sense.
“What do we want?”
“Professors as handsome as us!”
“When do we want it?”
“Before Finals Week is over! Protesting sucks!”
Oh, shit, Things Are Bad, there’s another one! THERE’S FAT PEOPLE EVERY FUCKING WHERE!
This, also, is terribly creepy.
Gaze upon my bone-chilling trilby hat!
Spear: Aww! 😀
I mean Ahhhh! Scary! XD
Again, perhaps TAB should look for a picture David is trying to keep under wraps. I mean, if you’re trying to embarrass him with a picture, you may want to use one he actually finds embarrassing. Not one there’s evidence he finds not embarrassing.
Personally I find this chart to be a more useful indicator…
http://laughingsquid.com/the-trustworthiness-of-beards/
Gaze upon my bone-chilling trilby hat!
No! No! Noooooo—–iAAAAAGH—(x)
*silence*