What the fuck is wrong with Reddit these days? Today, the denizens of AskReddit are debating the topic: Is it wrong to hit a woman? You can probably figure out what the consensus is. (Hint: Two letter word, starts with N.) What’s especially striking is how, well, gleeful the discussion is. Redditor after Redditor weighs in with the exact same opinion on the subject; others reply with jokey assent; everybody gets upvotes, sometimes hundreds of them. This exchange captures some of the flavor of the, er, “discussion” there:
These aren’t people arguing dispassionately that in the interest of equality we should treat hitting women the same as hitting men, and that ideally no one should be hitting anyone at all. These are guys (mostly) using the topic as an excuse to complain about “bitches” and their rights.
Others, meanwhile, decided to use the topic as masturbation fantasy fodder, suggesting that the original poster had missed his chance for some hot sex with the woman he slapped. As toothsayer put it:
The single slap is disrespectful, shows that you are pissy bitch, and will not get you laid. However, catching up to her as she is walking away, scooping her up, bending her over the knee and repeatedly spanking that ass would have led to some seriously hard core sex.
47 upvotes for that hilarious suggestion.
Perhaps all of the commenters should simply up and move to Topeka, Kansas, where the city council is considering decriminalizing domestic violence in order to save a few bucks. Seriously.
Note: Once again, I have the fine folks (no sarcasm here; they actually are fine) at ShitRedditSays for pointing this discussion out to me. Here’s the SRS discussion of the whole stinky mess.
I pledge: my next post will have nothing to do with Reddit.
I’m getting the impression that the fyms here get their wimminz kicking ass fix from the 90s grrrrrrrrrrrrrl power shit. Newsflash: that’s not how it really works.
To be fair, Rutee, MRAL gets his understanding of how physics relates to the human body from DOA.
And if a href doesn’t work I’m going to literally say “oh, balls” out loud. Inside my head.
Also, guns exist.
You can work out all you want, but if things go truly survival-of-the-fittest, I’m not going to try and *punch* people who threaten me. I have a little youth-sized rifle that fits my weak tiny ladyframe just fine.
“The best cure for attitudes like MRAL’s that women are “super weak” is to enroll them in a martial arts class. I know one kung fu teacher who has incoming dudebro students spar with his teenage daughter for exactly this reason – there’s nothing like being knocked on your ass by a petite 13 year old girl to knock the bravado out of a sexist man (and also teach them never to underestimate an opponent, which is a good lesson to learn in order to avoid embarrassing yourself later). Especially when she does it using perfect form and he’s still tripping over his own feet any time he tries to do anything.”
Nah, MRAL would probably shrug the challenge off and say, “Stupid [c-word] would probably beat me up because of my eye. IT’S BECAUSE OF MY EYE ISN’T IT, YOUR HOLY HIGHNESS?! FUcking womynmyn and their fuc4w fucking fuck!*”
*Amount of Fucks only a rough estimate
I LOL’d. Loudly.
Because there are never different circumstances! Every single case of a person getting hit is exactly the same as every other one, and we can judge them equally by a single standard! Christ, MRAL, even for you that’s stupid.
“I LOL’d. Loudly.”
*bows* Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week! Try the veal!
KathleenB: Right, so hitting women is worse than hitting men, thus women are implicitly worth more, thus you aren’t advocating equality, you’re advocating female privilege and supremacy.
Thanks to manboobz I’ve delved into the world of Reddit, and after much research I have figured it out.
It’s 4chan’s /b/
….if it took itself seriously and had zero creativity.
It’s making me nostalgic for my imageboard trolling days, which is pretty fucked up.
I like the user interface, it’s a pity it’s being used to house clowns.
MRAL’s dreams of being my nemesis are kind of cute, in an obnoxious sort of way. Get a hobby, really; misreading people isn’t a good one.
It was some buttons on a shirt. The only justification for violence is the threat of actual violence.
If that’s how it happened, then yeah, she’s an overly violent jackass too. It’s a form of sexual assault, but by my understanding, a non violent one.
Been hit by women in the past, the statistics for women committing domestic violence is astonishingly high actually
MRAL: I’m saying the EVERY SITUATION IS DIFFERENT. There are times when, yes, hitting another person is justified – man or woman. There are other times when hitting another person is NOT justified – man or woman. Jesus, is this really so difficult, or are you just determined to twist everything women say to fit your own agenda?
Incidentally, in the process of reading for my quals, I just this minute (Parker’s The Thirty Years’ War, p. 200) came across a mention of how, much of the time, Gustavus Adolphus tried to keep a lid on the oppression of civilians:
“At least five men in [one] regiment were executed by firing squad, and several others were condemned to death by the military provost for the maltreatment of the civilian population: the army could not afford to alienate those who supplied labor, guides, and intelligence of the enemy, as well as food and quarters.”
“The strong” aren’t shit without the contributions of “the weak.” Not to mention that even the strongest of them still has to sleep at some point, or go off into the woods to take a piss, and then it’s his ass. That same regiment has accounts of peasants cutting off the hands and feet of plundering soldiers, or pulling out their eyes.
USians aren’t the standard of what’s good, honey.
I thought you were 5’8″? Wait…is this in the morning or the evening?
Hey, that’s my husband! Not really, but he gets stopped and told he looks like/is asked if he’s him all the time.
MRAL, you talk a lot of shit, but I doubt you could fight your way out of a wet paper bag.
I’m a little under six feet and built like a linebacker (or possibly a defensive back). There is no way on god’s green earth that you would kick my ass. I have reach, I have really god reflexes, and I fight dirty. Even with my fuckleg.
And I know women who barely clear five feet who would kick you around the list like a cheap football. And they aren’t bodybuilders.
KathleenB, you don’t even know what the fuck I look like. In addition to having a high IQ I have high strength.
Lord and Lady. Substitute ‘good reflexes’ for ‘god reflexes.’ I’m not quite that fast!
“Trust me, I could kick the shit out of a 5’10 woman.”
And you want to do it so badly, don’t you? Would it soothe your wounded ego to hit a woman, MRAL? Would it make you feel better about the girl in the elevator who didn’t say hi to you nicely enough?
I don’t know why this has to be so gendered. Shouldn’t the basic understanding be that a person who obviously has greater strength has, as it were, the burden of being the “bigger person” in a situation? This would apply to average man v. average woman — but also to big man v. small, trained woman v. untrained, adult v. child, TAB v. PWD.
Also, I’ve always been skittish of “proportionate force” arguments when they are applied equally to both parties, if both parties have a disproportionate level of strength. Often, a weaker party can only escape/defend him or herself by doing something rather nasty. If I attacked a 6′ man, he could easily defend himself without hurting me. If he attacked me, I’d have to go for his eyes or other important squishy bits.
[quote]VoiP, there is basically one script that everyone should be following. Since western Europe, Australia, and the US are better than the rest of the world, and said countries share distinct similarities, they should be the sole ideal.[/quote]
Pfffffthahahahahahaha
Acting like Europe, on its own, followed one single script, let alone the US, or other white-dominated anglophones did, is remarkably idiotic. It also ignores that the Chinese and the various Muslim nations were doing substantially better than Europe for pretty fair chunks of time. And even now, that dominance is sorely challenged by places like China, Korea, and Japan. Really, MRAL, read a fucking book. Learn something.
MRAL would love to hit a woman. Hell, maybe he should join a boxing club, then he could get all that “bitch, gash, holy-highness alpha fuck” nonsense beat out of him.
Hey MRAL, could you define “modernization”?
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He didn’t even say “doing better.” He just said “better.”