Recently Kloo2yoo, the founder and longtime moderator of Reddit’s Men’s Rights subreddit, stepped down. The remaining moderator, IgnatiusLoyola, has just announced his successor, a long-time commenter in the subreddit who calls himself AnnArchist. (Despite the female-sounding name, he’s a guy.)
This is an, er, interesting choice, as AnnArchist is a misogynist asshole who thinks that violence against women is hilarious. Indeed, he’s posted in the BeatingWomen subreddit, a thoroughly vile little forum devoted to posting pictures and videos of women being violently assaulted. He says he enjoys this particular subreddit because “I have a sense of humor so I can laugh at it.” Here’s one recent post of his, and another. I don’t know exactly what was in either video, since they’ve both been removed my YouTube, the first for violating the site’s rules against hate speech, the second for its “shocking and disgusting content.” If you look through the comments on these submissions, you may also note that the r/beatingwomen regulars, in addition to being misogynist assholes, are also racist as fuck.
“Welcome AnnArchist,” the_real_misogynist wrote in response to one of these postings, “with posts like that you’ll fit right in here.”
Needless to say, AnnArchist doesn’t find violence by women against men quite so risible.
AnnArchist has also advocated murder (many, many, many times), endorsed vigilantism against a specific young woman, and suggested that false rape accusers should be stoned and/or jailed with the word “liar” tattooed on their faces.
He refers to women as “whores” and “cum dumpsters.” He’s boasted about “persuading” girls to have sex with him after they’ve said “no.” (Meanwhile, he’s said that if he woke up next to a trans woman after being drunkenly “tricked” into sex he would violently assault her.)
Oh, and there’s this bit of wisdom:
If you hyphenate your child’s last name, well its just pathetic. It means the mother was an uncompromising shrew.
I’m sure there are many other vile comments in AnnArchist’s past; these are simply the ones I uncovered with a couple of Reddit searches and by going through his most controversial comments. Indeed, as he himself acknowledges, “there is no limit to the amount of screwed up shit that I’ve posted.”
So why exactly was he picked as a moderator? Is he truly the best that r/mensrights can offer?
Apparently a lot of the r/mensrights regulars think so; most of those who’ve commented so far have praised IgnatiusLoyola’s choice, and have dismissed the critics as “trolls.” (EDITED TO ADD: The tide seems to have turned; there are now more comments up critical of AnnArchist’s promotion to mod, and posts defending Iggy’s decision aee getting some downvotes.)
EDITED TO ADD: Just wanted to highlight one of his comments on the false accuser he was targeting:
I hope she was harassed. Fuck I hope her house was firebombed. Lets be clear, I really will applaud anyone who does anything to her, be it slash her tires or slash her throat.
Here’s the full quote in context. (EDIT: AnnArchist has edited this comment to remove the violent bits. Luckily, someone got a screenshot.)
And here is a comment of his on a specific female judge:
I hope someone kills her.
Add to the list of MRA thinking:
The Enemy of My Enemy:
“The more someone hates women, the more they must like men. This guy really hates women, so he must be the best ally men ever had!”
There’s a Beating Women section? My mind is reeling.
There is also apparently a “raping” women section. Nice.
Remember yesterday when Catalogue was claiming that violent men make up a very, very small fringe group of the MRM?
Yeah. So small and insignificant that one of them is now the subreddit moderator.
Are we absolutely positive this isn’t some kind of Andy Kaufmanesque comedy punk’d thing?
Oh hey, he also moderates a subreddit with shock pictures, including lots of chopped up dead bodies!
(Probably best not to click here:) http://www.reddit.com/r/NSFW4/
Now, I’m not saying a man can’t have diverse interests, but something tells me he’s not in this for the love of equality.
Well, it finally happened. I just lost the last shred of faith that I had in humanity.
@juliejezebel – I WISH. I thought kloo was just the most successful troll of all time and/or a massive psychology experiment put on by someone very unethical, but alas, r/MR proves me wrong over and over again…
Oh no, they’ve been linked to this post.
I hope at least some of them read it for content, and don’t just immediately throw it into the “HE HATES US AND SAYS MEAN THINGS AND THIS POST IS MEAN THINGS” mental bucket.
I hope?
C’mon, guys. Is this the guy you want advocating for gender equality? Does this guy even like men? He’s done plenty of laughing at dead men’s bodies and advocating for men’s murders…
I think this is what Catalog meant by the “reasonable, non-violent” MRAs…
Also, if AnnArchist despises women so much, why choose such a feminine-sounding name?
That beating women subreddit made me nauseous. I can’t believe anyone would find that funny.
Wow David, I’m sorry you had to wade through that filth.
That’s truly some vile content. 🙁
Thebionicmommy – I can’t believe anyone would find it funny, and not just because it’s hurtful.
If I turn off the “humanity” part of my brain, it’s not funny because it’s not a joke. There’s no setup, no payoff, no cleverness. If there was some ironic situation or tricky wordplay or goofy slapstick that involved a woman being beaten, that would be a joke about beating women. Just saying “we think beating women is awesome” isn’t a joke.
I’m not even saying this as a feminist. If it were “beatingpotatoes,” it wouldn’t be offensive, but it still wouldn’t be funny.
I think Futrelle is just mercilessly baiting Catalogue at this point….
I predict references to Sharon Osbourne and Lorena Bobbit in the upcoming thread…because, you know, that makes an entire subreddit devoted to beating women totally OK.
Holly, you’re right that they don’t actually set up punchlines or anything, so if they are trying to be funny, they’re not trying very hard. AnnArchist said he found it funny, though. I guess the people that post there go for extreme shock humor. I really hope that is what their agenda is. Others might be trying to go as low as possible just to get attention.
I also found a quote by Electocutee: “I see it as a place of dark humor, kind of cathartic for those oppressed masses of men who have been treated unjustly by women and society. Naturally, we wouldn’t want to act out that agression, but the reaction of non-members is priceless to me.”
from responses to beating women reddit
I think I am also losing my faith in humanity.
Ha ha, they’ve replied to me posting this there. The best the other mod can do is “So what? (that AnnArchist is a misogynist)” and “FEMINISTS CAN’T CLAIM THEY’RE NOT MISANDRISTS EITHER!”
Okay, well if that’s the best you can do…
Kita – I also see a lot of “feminists are violent, and that proves feminists are horrible, and also it means it’s okay if we’re violent” logic going on.
Even if that were true, it says something about your movement if the best you can summon up in self-defense is “we’re just as bad as our enemies!”
AnnArchist has now edited his violent comment about the false accuser, removing the violent parts. Luckily, someone got a screenshot:
http://i.imgur.com/JCy5u.png
I’ve got screenshots of most of the rest as well.
Too funny how women/feminists whine about violent talk from the bad men while the State gives women fully authority and immunity from violent acts, plus commits violence on womens behalf.
Here’s a fun little article about rape, that ya’ll beat men over the head with every 2 seconds.
http://www.wbir.com/news/article/182430/2/Former-teachers-aide-gets-diversion-for-sex-with-boy
It seems this strong, independent lassie done commited aggravated statutory rape. But fear not, Big Daddy has come to the rescue. She seems to have applied for “diversion,” and was granted it. Apparently, diversion means in this case, if she stays out of mischief for two whole years her record will be cleared. That’s swell. Big Daddy, we love you! I wonder if a man would’ve recieved some of that diversion stuff had he committed aggravated statutory rape? Actually I don’t wonder about it at all, “lock him up,” will be the cry of every woman.
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Now that fun little story leads up to this gem.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prison-home-20110913,0,6210913.story
It seems were going to let women out of prison if they’re mommies, which brings up a few points to say the least. First off, I don’t ever recall Big Daddy letting men out of prison just because they’re daddies. Also, since aggravated statuatory rape ain’t enough to lock a woman up. And we’ve all seen how women get off for murdering men by claiming even mental abuse, (no point in leaving a man when you can kill him and keep all the stuff). We’ve seen women murder children and still. No prison.
I mean what the hell did these women have to do to actually get prison time? It had to be something pretty henious, but Big Daddy says let em go. This’ll be the first step in just flat out closing womens prisons down all together. Pretty soon, women will be sent to some State run spa for a little R&R for murdering a man. Feminist Barister something or an other had already proposed just that a coupla years ago. It seems to be making quite a come back. Soon it’ll just be an accepted fact of life, and men will pay with their taxes, for what could be their murderer to spend time at a spa for murdering them.
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Ya see, this is the violence both directly perpetrated by women, (forgiven by the State). And the violence of the State, directed by women. So when us silly old MRAs talk about tyranny, this is what we mean. Surely you can’t believe women being freed for crimes men are harshly punished for will be considered another endearing quality of modern day women, do you? Do you really believe men will love you more for this? Remember, women are the cash cow of the State. All it takes is one woman to cry about some slight and call it oppression and Big Daddy will rush to take our wealth and rectify any womans slightest indulgence. Like Aristotle said, women do quite well under tyranny.
(from the thread:)
My boyfriend’s father is a judge, and the family has federal marshal protection. They worry. Shit, I worry: I remember freaking out the day of the Loguhner shooting, babbling something inane to my advisor, not because of Congresswoman Giffords (because as terrible as that was, it’s not like it represents a continuing threat to me), but because of the judge. Fuck these people. Fuck them.
*Loughner
Don’t forget “I Fucking Grinned,” in which our hero describes, before a cheering crowd of redditors, his glee at being given an excuse to sucker-punch a woman inn the gut:
http://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/i2cjx/sorry_ladies_butequal_rights_equal_lefts_you_cant/c20bzka
http://i.imgur.com/xtwS9.png
He’d have gone for the “face shot,” of course, if not for all the witnesses. Such bravery! Truly a hero of reddit.
What a hero! Wouldn’t the world be lovely if more people engaged in disproportionate use of force.