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.
except you have proved this*
* havent
Catalogue: if there are other feminist sites that aren’t protecting female abusers and minimizing false abuse, I’d be glad to hear about them,
Dude… we keep telling you about them. You stick your fingers in your eyes and refuse to look at them.
Mind you, we keep asking for the non-misogynist MRA sites and what we get is defensive responses explaining how beating women is about making fun of misogyny.
Beating on women is making fun of misogyny
Catalogue of lies indeed.
r/beatingwomen is linked to a commedian that mocks misogny and PUAs you idiots.
Click on the disclaimer.
Then post the evidence you lying feminist.
Demonstrate how the mrm lobbies for abusers like feminism does.
I believe Bostonian linked to you cheering on violence against women last page, dude.
There never will be, because the MRM is still what it was 5 minutes ago, owned and operated by abusers and rapists.
This is directly supported by the links to Catalog’s own site.
He is still for the freedom to abuse, but only for men to commit.
I stand by my posts.
HengistBut you are all pissed off that women are saying people beating on them is wrong
Where did I say anything resembling that?
Are you saying you agree with the feminist positions on DV?
Then post the evidence you lying feminist.
Demonstrate how the mrm lobbies for abusers like feminism does.
everything a feminist does is evil and twisted. everything an mra does is innocent and pure.
this is the truth because Catalogue Says So.
“Demonstrate how the mrm lobbies for abusers”
I think the men rights and beating woman subreddits speaks for itself.
Catalogue seems to be approaching meltdown.
But if I *was* the abusive type that *would* be cause for violence against women in general.
If you were abusive enough for long enough, yes, you might influence somebody’s feelings for women in general. Feminists are always making apologies for the more misandric amongst their number, saying it’s probably because they were abused, they have reason to hate men because they were hurt, etc etc. Why wouldn’t it work in reverse?
Class act, you are. You’re really not good at this, are you?
That wasn’t actually addressed to me, was it? It was more like a call for your buddies to pile on and agree “no, he really isn’t!” etc. For an oppressed class, you’re pretty good at playing the bully.
Your post in the last thread started with apologia for an abusive ex-husband who was gunned down when he tried to attack the judge that presided over his divorce, a divorce triggered by him being an abusive asshat.
Even if your accusations about feminists minimizing the possibility of abuse were true, that would only ever mean we were as bad as you. It wouldn’t establish us as worse, because at least we pay lip service to the idea of not protecting abusers. You find an abuser and outright say “NOpe, this was totally justified” And your accusations are laughably untrue.
Parody of civil rights movements. What rights are even being surpressed on grounds of gender? The only misandry in the USA is class and race based IE not because your men, because there’s class and race-based misogyny. The disadvantaging just takes different forms between genders, so misandry is appropriate.
“Dude… we keep telling you about them. You stick your fingers in your eyes and refuse to look at them”
Show me a feminist source that is not actively protecting abusers, linked to a site that is not actively protecting abusers or one feminist abuse info. outlet that is not pushing misinformation that protects abusers..
Catalogue. Claiming someone is lying doesn’t invalidate their statement anymore then your claims of fallacy are actual fallacies (Instead of your made up shit). You see, there is this wonderful concept that involves”proof” and “validity”. It’s called making an argument. This is something you haven’t done. When you assert something, you provide a reason. The reason isn’t lying, because you have not demonstrated how it is a lie. That’s not how you debunk arguments brosef.
Granted, I’m wondering if you will ever figure out how fallacies work. So far you haven’t. Also, still waiting for that evidence that the majority of the MRA’s are not supportive or wishing direct violence against women.
Pecunium: Answer the question or stop making bullshit strawman claims. I’m getting tired of your faux-intellectual posturing and word games.
Oh, the disclaimer! Well, that just makes it aaaaaaaaaaaall better. A disclaimer!
He has not, and will not post even one single link of a non violent MRA site.
(mostly because it does not exist)
Rutee,
Like the others, all your arguemts here depend on telling lies, I posted specifically to say the gunman was deranged.
And the only connection between him and the mens movement, is this sites lies. Check google.
“He has not, and will not post even one single link of a non violent MRA site.
(mostly because it does not exist)”
Bostonian you are just another lying feminist.
The gunman was not deranged, he was an abuser. You, as usual are a liar. Also, you cannot show the MRM to be peaceful, and reasonable.
All of your arguments depend on lying.
You are an Abuser Advocate, as shown by your own words on your own site.
Post the link and prove me wrong!
You have demonstrated a willingness to lie and lobby for the harassment of female victims.
You do nothing for male victims of domestic violence.
You rally in the defense of the Beating Women reddit.
He can’t do that Bostonian. Because it’s fallacious to begin with according to him! Therefore everyone who doesn’t agree with him are liars, because he is the czar of all logic, herpty derp.
I feel like this conversation has degenerated into
“You’re a liar!”
“I’m not a liar, you’re a liar!”
😐 Come on, people.
The correct response is “No, the only cause for violence is self-defense, so you would never be cause for violence against women in general, only ever against you”. I mean, if you really want to play this game, you do realize that Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Dubya were dudes, right? If that was the game we were going to cis straight men are responsible for nearly every atrocity in history. White dudes are responsible for our favorite specters (The Nazis and the Commies). By your logic, violence against dudes is inevitable and should be passively aggressively excused by us, yet you demand we stand even harder on violence against men.
Because women actually are the disadvantaged class. It’s the same reason that anger at white people is understandable (Violence, never. Because I’m not you. I also don’t consider violence to be inevitable, because it isn’t), but anger at hispanics… not so much (Notwithstanding that the correct target for that anger is actually the rich, if it’s an immigration thing).
I reuse to let him assert without challenge. If David wishes me to cease and desist, I will.
That said, Linds, you are not wrong and I acknowledge it, if catalog will not.
Just to be clear though, I have not seen the nonviolent, reasonable link that catalog insists he can provide.