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.
Where he can trope the light fantastic ’round the questions he doesn’t want to answer.
Bostonian,
just to make it explicit, I’m not aware of Miguel calling himself an MRA, and I’m not aware of self-identified MRAs labeling him as one. Some feminists seem to place him in that group, and the topics he covers bear some resemblance to some topics covered by MRAs.
I think that many people sympathetic to men’s issues find the MRM to be a poisoned well, even if individual points they raise might merit attention once in while. It’s a shame that that movement is so overrun by idiots.
I got into a fight once… That was just my misandarist trope, though.
Because FEMINISM!
Kilo,
You have been very clear, thank you. I do appreciate that. I also agree with your assessment of much of the MRM, and I also think it is unfortunate that it is like that right now.
Pec
You have never engaged with me honestly, its debatable whether any of the regulars here will engage someone that advocates for men’s rights honestly, as far as you are concerned they are all rapists and abusers and none of you seem to mind lying and making false allegations about rape and abuse, about me or any other mra.
The blog idea itself, is based in an collection of obvious lies and sexist double standards.
eg. misogny is reprehensible, misandry is ok. The men’s movement is defined in its entirety by various misnadrist tropes, while feminism which has far more skeletons in the close is not defined by these people, actions, events and policies. The mens movement is an abusers lobby even though there is no evidence of it and feminism openly acts as an abusers lobby….
Looking at this OP, David denies a man the right to be victimised by rape, few of the links seem to go where they claim to … the comments section is filled with people telling lies and making false allegations about people.
And look at the previous thread I commented on…
Connecting Palmer to the mrm, Google shows the only connection is manboobz.
Defining all mens rights people by a statistically irrelevant minority and taking others out of context
Claiming misogyny is reprehensible while giving misandry a free pass..
Claiming the men’s movement is inciting violence, when several anti violence messages have been made on mens movement radio while feminism has a history of violence and violent threats.
Claiming that the men’s movement want to hurt women and lobbies for abusers, when feminism demonstrably lobbies for family murderers and hides female abusers and erases male victims with convoluted studies and propaganda as policy
Claiming that the men’s movement and terrorism and violence are connected while providing no evidence, while there are numerous demonstrable links to feminism and organised terrorism and violence, from the suffragettes to more recently the feminists that co-opted the egalitarianism domestic violence movement to US funded terrorists groups in South American and one in the mid-east and one that’s funded by Feminist Majority.
It was predicted here a long time ago that you would become what you study and it was true, you are contributing in the same way that the deluded misogynists in the Spearhead comments section do, festering and spewing toxins into the debate.
The manboobz peeps, the MGTOW extremist and the spearhead extremists are all part of the same group, debating at the same level, just on different sides of the coin.
And its funny to point that out.
None of the above assertions is substantiated in any way at all.
Catalog is an utter idiot who thinks everyone is as stupid as he is.
one in the mid-east and one that’s funded by Feminist Majority.
Now that’s a complete lie. Prove it or STFU. And, remember, I follow links.
So post some of these vaunted fucking links between feminism and terrorism. Unless, of course, you’re full of shit and your ‘evidence’ consists of you telling us (over and over and fucking OVER) that we’re horrible terrorists without any actual evidence.
Ok, Catalogue, the question is still out there. I’ll rephrase it:
A major MRA community has a new moderator who laughs at “beating women,” who calls for the death of judges and cops, and who collects dead body pictures.
Do you, personally:
A) Approve
B) Disapprove
Care to step up to the plate? Here’s your chance to be on the record.
I’ll say it: I’m a feminist, and I disapprove of this moderator’s appointment.
Apparently, Feminist Majority once sponsored a rally for Afghan women, and one of their co-sponsors was a group that may have links to the MEK. So, yeah, that’s exactly the same as bankrolling their whole terrorist organization. (Rolls eyes) And we, by extension, are all terrorists.
Ok, I think I have my MRA
tropesfauna sorted out.TROPES AND FALLACIES!
Cynickal
Also, vandalism and terrorism are exactly the same thing.
The manboobz peeps, the MGTOW extremist and the spearhead extremists are all part of the same group, debating at the same level, just on different sides of the coin.
And its funny to point that out.
It’s especially funny because Welmer is the one who has been pushing the Feminist Majority-MEK connection.
Captain: Ah, so feminism supports terrorism the same way David approves of a SlutWalker raping their attacker. Okay, that makes much more sense now.
Ooo, fallacy of the golden mean and false equivalence. Nice job, those are new. Never seen that combination before.
Catalogue, you appear to be condemning feminism for allegedly advocating abuse. Would I be correct to infer from this that you would oppose the appointment of AnnArchist if he was pro abuse?
Catalogue is wrong about those Shakesville links. I just looked at them and there are no excuses for female-on-male rape in any of them, nor are there any claims that only male-on-female rape occurs.
First link, a post about the Roman Catholic Church covering up abuse of children, both boys and girls.
Second link, a post about rape in the USA military, citing a story about male-on-male rape. It does include some info about how many women in the military have been raped, too, but it explicitly talks about male-on-male rape and how male rape victims get trashed in the same way female victims do.
Third link, a post about a 13-year-old boy raped by his 26-year-old female teacher and how her lawyer trashed the boy as not really being 13, but at least 16 (even suggesting a fake birth certificate).
Fourth link, a post about Tyler Perry talking about being molested by two people, a man and a woman, when he was a child. The rape by the man is referred to by CNN as being molested, while the rape of him by the woman is referred to by CNN as being seduced. The poster writes: “Ten-year-olds cannot be “seduced.” It’s no coincidence that the assault in which the victim was male and the perpetrator female is being misrepresented as a “seduction,” while the other two are being correctly represented as “molestation.””
I don’t want to add to the ‘pile-on’ of Catalogue, but his comments about the Shakesville links are so unfair, I have to correct him.
Manboobz regulars. We read the links we post, and read the ones others post.
You keep talking about these studies, Catalog, but you’ve never shown them to us. You made these claims, now you get to support them. (yes, I am too much of a lazy bitch to do the research you should to to support your claims.)
It’s not a pile-on if you have something substantive to add, Wisteria (which you did). Catalogue is wrong in so many egregious ways that we all need to work together to correct him.
It takes a village, after all.
Exactly Captain Bathrobe! It takes the Village People to raise a child.
That would be a fun household to grow up in! 🙂
I had to take the opportunity to use my silly old joke.
Kitty*- Pec
You have never engaged with me honestly, its debatable whether any of the regulars here will engage someone that advocates for men’s rights honestly, as far as you are concerned they are all rapists and abusers and none of you seem to mind lying and making false allegations about rape and abuse, about me or any other mra.
Stuff and nonsense, and projection; the first two stemming from the last. Anyone who defends any aspect of feminism/critiques any aspect of MRA you call a denialist/misandrist.
I don’t think all MRAs are rapists. I don’t even think all of them are rape aplogists (MRAL, for one, doesn’t seem to be either of those; though I suspect he doesn’t make enough of a distinction on consent to share my definition of rape, but that’s different, and something, within reason, people of honest good will can differ, but I digress).
You do think anyone who disagrees with you is lying.
It’s a fundamental difference,and why you never get anywhere; since you will not accept that you may be wrong, you can never accept that anyone else may be right. This makes you incapable of actually examining the data; because your idea is that no one who disagrees with the World According to Catalogue can be doing so honestly.
But please, show us the links to your claims.
Be prepared to defend them.
*You don’t know me; we aren’t friends, if you want to mangle my name; in some attempt to amuse yourself, feel free. If you want to pretend to being my familiar, don’t.
Catalogue, you’re beginning to remind me of (shameless plug) Elvis in my little cartoon, except that instead of saying “memphis” over and over, you say “tropes.”
Speaking of you, Catalogue, Capt. Bathrobe had a comment caught in moderation about your blog post accusing me of supporting rape. Given how completely wrong and dishonest your post was, I’m reposting Capt Bathrobe’s comment here so that everyone can see it:
Also, Catalogue: I said clearly in a comment on your blog post, and will say again:I think Raven’s comment is wrong and bad. I DO NOT SUPPORT THE RAPE OR THREATENED RAPE OF ANYONE EVER.
Oh, and here’s my Elvis video: