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.
Also, tropes.
Do you not know any synonyms for “trope”? Because it’s getting annoying to read “misandrist tropes, misandrist tropes, trope trope trope” in all of your posts. Did you just learn that word or what?
Feminism isn’t a hive mind. Manboobz isn’t a hive mind either. If you can only argue your point by saying every single person who argues against you is a liar out to smear you and all men, then maybe your argument isn’t that strong in the first place.
Fatman
If he is pro rape, I denounce him for that, as I did David Futrelle for giving his approval to a slut walker threatening to rape an mra and Jill at feministe being pro-sexual coersion as I am RAINN and feminist sources for misleading the public about female on male rape.
The point I’m making here, is that manboobz peeps are generally sexists, that hold people to different standards and male false, misandrist allegations. For example with Holly, she links to misandry and blatant abuse denial and Ive seen her engage in it herself, so she is not in a position to demand that others prove to her that they are thinking correctly.
You know what I’m against? I’m against stupid. This Catalogue, he has it.
One of my posts on the front page right now (http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2011/09/survivor.html) is in large part an account of how I was abused by a woman.
So there’s that.
One mod chosing another mod and many in the community disagreeing is turned into “the whole community chose the mod, therefore they all agree, therefore they are all violent”.
Right. That’s why I’ve been asking you if you disagree. Because if you do, then say so. It won’t make us think you’re anti-MRA all of a sudden, it’ll just make us think you’re capable of telling wrong from right in your own movement.
Right now, it seems like you keep intimating that you could disagree, but not actually doing so, and the only explanation I can think of for that is that you actually thing violent dude is awesome. If you don’t, say so.
For example with Holly, she links to misandry and blatant abuse denial and Ive seen her engage in it herself,
Examples, please? It’s my own blog, for chrissakes, I think I know what’s in it.
Because Manboobz is about using deceptive means to smearing the men’s movement with misandrist tropes.
One mod chosing another mod and many in the community disagreeing is turned into “the whole community chose the mod, therefore they all agree, therefore they are all violent”.
come down off the fucking ledge man. i know fuck all about reddit, and yeah, i figured out from the article that annarchist was handpicked, but its a pretty minor error to make. maybe if you gave someone the benefit of the doubt once in a while you wouldnt think the whole world was out to get you?
Lauralot
“Feminism isn’t a hive mind. Manboobz isn’t a hive mind either. If you can only argue your point by saying every single person who argues against you is a liar out to smear you and all men, then maybe your argument isn’t that strong in the first place.”
Manboobz is involved in a sort of group think. That’s why you all use almost identical arguments that hinge on the same thing, attaching a misandrist trope to the mens movement and every single person in it.
Its like the MGTOW site, same asshatery, and they are all convinced they are some sort of elite too.
And, your blog leads to all kinds of misandry and abuse denial, …
So does yours. After all, it has links back to Manboobz!
Kind of a lousy standard, if you ask a Zombie. After all, any blog actually LINKS TO THE ENTIRE INTERNET!
Dude, you be troping.
No link that supports any of his assertions, I note.
Also, tropes.
AND fallacies.
Define a misandrist trope. Because you keep whining on about it, and I have yet to see you actually mention what these tropes are.
In fact, why don’t you just make a post consisting of nothing but “trope” over again to get it out of your damn system.
So you’re saying people within the same movement tend to use similar arguments? And share ideas? My God, what sort of 1984 bullshit is that. Just wait, we’ll all be using New Speak next.
Well it is hilarious. And what’s even more hilarious is, as a moderat of /r/beatingwomen, I find some guy like that shows up and doesn’t get the humor in it and we make fun of him openly and he doesn’t grasp it, and neither do you.
Haw!
No link that supports any of his assertions, I note.
Well, of course not. The secret to Catalogue’s Debating Success is the second grade: “I know you are but what am I?”
Also, tropes. And fallacies. Fallacious tropes.
asking for definitions is misandrist.
and a trope.
Doubleplusungood, Lauralot.
The TL;DR version of Catalogue:
“Feminists are all liars and abusers! Now that I have said it, it must be canon!”
Support our tropes.
I have this insatiable desire to visit TV Tropes now.
Bring the tropes home, Captain!
Catalogue, I am not trying to harp on this but when you said, “Fatman, If he is pro rape, I denounce him for that…” you did not address my question regarding the appointment of a moderator to the Men’s Rights Subreddit who advocates abuse. Given the strong implication that you are opposed to both rape and abuse in your statement,‘“What ever I say, I am pro rape and abuse because thats how the manboobz people roll, false allegations, slander, misandrist tropes….’ would I be correct in assuming that you would oppose the appointment of AnnArchist if he was pro abuse, the same way you would denounce him if he was pro rape?
Huffington Post celebrates murder of men: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-pauline-lowry/domestic-violence-support_b_964244.html
The article even cites notorious man-hater Michael Kimmel’s false domestic violence stat that men commit 90% of “serious” domestic violence, when women commit AT LEAST as much domestic violence as men.
I await your moral outrage and condemnation of feminism for making it all possible.
Seriously, I canNOT believe Cat is still here, saying “Nuh-UH! YOU are!”
Even a one string bass made out of a pickup’s gas tank has more range than that.
TAB, you ARE aware that the Sopranos was a TV show, right?