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.
David, there have been some very serious allegations made about me and my blog that are clearly lies. Can you moderate them or talk to your supporters about telling lies about the other posters.
The Jezebel article is wrong-it is not even borderline of funny. It is not funny and rude.
There Catalogue, multiple feminists have condemned it. When are you going to start condemning violence against women?
That would be smashing, Squeaky, but I’m afraid I am an uncompromisingshrew so it’ll have to be a champagne cocktail. Tell me – do your people still have venomous tooth-grooves these days?”
Heavens, no, Bel, how crass! We’ve got into echolocation. Such a boon for finding one’s way around the meandering Elizabethan pile that is our family burrow, what? I say, let me order us a plate of wasabi earwigs to share and we can have a good old whisker-wag, I’ve barely seen you since Oxford!
Its a case of knowing that feminism lying about domestic violence through looking at the hard evidence. Feminism has nothing credible to back up its sexist view of family abuse, which protects female child and spousal abusers.
right, if all youre going to do is simper about how were are lying dirty liars in response to anything anyone says, why are you here?
like, im sorry, it must be tough being the high priest of objectivity and all, but we cant do anything to help the all powerful truth wizard
Catalogue, if feminists support violence and that disgusts you, don’t you think MRAs should aspire to rise above that disgusting level, instead of taking pride in being the opposite kind of disgusting?
I went to St Andrews, Piers. You must be thinking of somebody else.
(She sniffs. There is an awkward silence.)
Exeunt, pursued by a BEAR
I linked directly to the evidence. Everyone is free to read it. I am sorry that you cannot take being exposed as an abuse denier. It is too bad that you expect moderation to erase the truth of your own lies and delusions.
Also, you have never once linked to any nonviolent MRA site. That is because you simply cannot do so, as that entity does not exist.
Catalogue, I called your work sloppy. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy! Don’t I rate a call to be moderated? What makes Bostonian so special? 🙁
Or english write. Comprehend your man-logic we can’t.
Oh noes, I can’t support my assertions with facts! DADDY! The ebil feminists are picking on me! Make them stop using my own arguments against me!
What, exactly are the lies? Do you have a better set of sources? Can you, other than foot-stamping assertion, actually defend against the questions raised about the sources/methodology in your sources?
Do you really think “register her” isn’t engaged in unsupported lies about women?
Really?
I posted links.
I suppose, perhaps, we have misunderstood you, and the title of your blog is merely truthful reportage, as it contains a catalogue of lies.
That last post was to Captain Bathrobe, who wondered what made me so singular.
bostonian, you appear to be in grave danger for being sued for Internet Libel and Intentional Interference With Blogging Affairs
Holly
there is no culture of laughing about or protecting domestic abuse in the men movement as the mens movement is largely based on getting equal rights for abuse victims. All there is is misandrist tropes that are used to stereptype it here and .1% that’s quotable that does conform to the misandrist tropes that feminists use to oppose mens rights.
But, there is an overwhelming culture of abuse denial and minimizing abuse in feminism, which is why when feminists are using those misandrist tropes (they are abusers and rapists) and stereotypes to oppose the mens rights movement, its a case of blatant hypocrisy.
Captain Bathrobe, I call for you to be moderated until you put some pants on! 🙁
I know it is a grave injustice that I posted links to his actual words, and held him accountable for the assertions he made on this site as well.
In other words, I stand by every word I posted. If David finds the need to moderate my posts (and he has, when I went too far) he will. I do not think I have gone too far this time.
Captain Bathrobe, I call for you to be moderated until you put some pants on! 🙁
Pfft! Well, that’s not going to happen, so I guess it’s permanent moderation for me.
Obligatory:
I mean, I know that you’re special, Bostonian. I was just wondering why Catalogue thought so. 🙂
there is no culture of laughing about or protecting domestic abuse in the men movement as the mens movement is largely based on getting equal rights for abuse victims.
dude. you are posting on an article about a dude who laughs at pictures of battered women. the thing you are saying doesnt happen happened in the post. get a clue, brah.
“I was hoping Hengist had come here to express shock at this guy being made moderator. Why do I keep expecting non-jackassery from trolls, anyway? Ah well.”
The people who posted those reddit comments are mentally disturbed to say the least, but you have to wonder what brought them to this state. Did they wake up one day and say “From now on, I’m gonna hate women and talk about killing them” for no reason? There’s gotta be more to it, and with people like Rutee around, I’m beginning to understand.
“dude. you are posting on an article about a dude who laughs at pictures of battered women. the thing you are saying doesnt happen happened in the post. get a clue, brah.”
Sharculese
One person is not a culture. Mainstream feminist publications publishing articles celebrating DV and the comments sections filled with more feminists doing the same, and 40 years of protecting and denying female as policy, is a culture.
So now Rutee is responsible for these wastes of skin posting about murder and rape? I have dealt with people who were impolite too. I do not post about murdering them or raping them.