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 not interested in hitting anyone. I’m a non-violent person, though if the situation required I would able to defend myself or others given my considerable strength (fact, not bragging).
Right, but the superior West has clear similarities. Evidence toward one script. Maybe a rough script, but still. Most of the rest of the world sucks ass. Even China kind of blows, although as they begin to follow the US’s superior script they are doing better.
West>the rest, aside from the Middle East>the Middle East
I’m leaving.
Well, he is a racist piece of shit. What were you expecting?
lol, i’m racist, thanx for the heads-up
“I’m leaving.”
Promise?
MRAL, your high IQ apparently does not preclude you saying some really stupid shit.
Bye, now.
Go study the history and current socioeconomic conditions of modern-day Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden. Fuck, study the actual history of the USA, as well as Australia and Canada (the latter of which is definitely doing better than the US right now). Like, right the fuck now, you’re an ignoramus. They’re not even close; it’s not a matter of a ‘rough script’.
For fuck’s sake, you actually get really good comparisons when you start comparing Europe to elsewhere. The Spanish Empire’s overexpansion and death by inflation due to new resources aren’t really well paralleled by any other western empire, f’rex. Germany’s unification bears little resemblance to the split of Norway and Sweden, Italy’s unification, or the English conquest of other territories in modern day Britain. There are stronger similarities in culture now, but they hardly took the same path, and even now there are some pretty noteworthy differences. But for similarities elsewhere? Roman and Ottoman Empires, for a start.
Japan and Korea are *doing better than the US*, you little piece of shit. Their people enjoy a higher standard of living, are better educated, make more money, have better health care. China is actually doing worse for its citizens as it adopts free market jackassery, and they have the wealth gap to prove it.
Would that you could stay away.
Yes, but is it over 9000?
He also has superpowers. And possibly a pet unicorn.
Just so I can focus on something besides the desperate whimpering noise that seems to be coming from the general vicinity of my brain, what the fuck is your major? Where could you learn something this breathtakingly moronic?
If you say “history,” I will murder-suicide us both with my mind.
[citation needed]
If you think strength is everything in any kind of fight, you’ve already lost. Depending on the circumstances, speed and agility can be more important, or using the terrain/surrounding are to your advantage, or just being better armed or smarter than you opponent. And I don’t give a fuck what you look like, my first fencing teacher was barely over five feet and she wiped the list with my jacket on a regular basis. I regularly saw her do the same to men and women of all sizes. She was really, really good.
Full marks, stick the landing, etc. Base score 8, he hasn’t even lost his temper.
Wasn’t there just a discussion on another article where we discussed the insecurity of guys who boast about being a part of MENSA?
I mean, seriously, did he skip over all of that (because reading it would probably make his blood pressure even higher), or did he just not pay attention?
One… script? WTF? Like handwriting? Money (tho that would be scrip, yes)?
For script read “guideline,” like the idea that there is one teleological way to Become Modern and only certain groups have made it. I used the term, offhandedly, in my post on the previous page, when I said that the word ‘modernization” is too “script-like.” MRAL, for no reason known to God or science, took that idea and ran with it. Unionically, by all indications.
VoiP: Ah. Trust MRAL to run with something he really doesn’t understand. Like nuclear powered scissors.
Ah, the beautiful, elusive dream. For too long human beings have looked to the stars and dreamed, dreamed of a better world, a shinier, more explosion-rich world, a world where god-fearing, red-blooded men and women could stand up proud and tall, with steel in their spine and self-respect in their hearts and cut things, goddamn it, cut things the way Thor meant for us to cut them: with extreme prejudice.
That day is coming. We can make it happen.
Go study the history and current socioeconomic conditions of modern-day Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Ireland, Switzerland, Poland, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Sweden. Fuck, study the actual history of the USA, as well as Australia and Canada (the latter of which is definitely doing better than the US right now).
Nah. The proof is in the pudding.
Also, I have good agility and I was a member of a cross country team, and we sprinted sometimes. I’m fast, dickhead.
About my high IQ, I’m not boasting, it’s simple fact. I was actually tested when younger, and it’s high.
Japan is the exception, they are doing well, but notice for much of their semi-recent history the leaders…. shogun? or whatever…. were actively copying the West, and they admitted as much. They also probably have bigger dicks than most Asians.
VoiP: That might be the funniest thing I’ve read all week.
One day MRAL should let his real life friends read all his comments here, so they can join in one thundering chorus of “WANKER!”
Really, wouldn’t you cringe if your friends read comments like “I could totally beat up a 5’10” woman”?
VoiP: Brilliant!
Magpie: I’ve had conversations like that with my friends, but it was for a game – discussing how we could get past a person who was blocking our path. And the height was a secondary consideration to, “Does she look like a fighter? How about a mage, any wands or staves?” (because as every gamer knows: get the mage first!)
See, if his comment had taken wands or staves into account, it might have looked cool 🙂
Slavey:
We need to give these numbers. I think “you don’t know what I think, you only know what I say I think” is going to have a fairly low number, I’m pretty sure it’s been used on the Internet for decades.
A note should be added to the feminism section of the Big Book of Larnin’ to the effect that many feminists don’t understand what feminism is, as often as Slavey “corrects” feminists on that subject..
Slavey:
Where in Title IX does it say it’s ok to nonconsensually hit men?
Holly:
I think, like Socrates railing against writing, he believes (or poses as believing) that looking a fact up somewhere is somehow different from knowing it, and that “facts” taken from the top of one’s head — or, as it were, further down the anatomy — are superior to those you look up somewhere, even if the former are wrong and the latter are correct. So it’s not that Wikipedia is unreliable, as the Big Book says, it’s that using sources at all is morally deficient, or possibly intellectually dishonest.
Cassandra
I think it’s that there’s a general Trilateral Illuminated Rothchild conspiracy (the Rothschilds are just a red herring) that he’s bravely fighting against. Naturally Manboobzers, as agents of the conspiracy, are trying to discredit him. That’s why we keep claiming he’s wrong about things, and correspondingly why it’s vital that he (find a way to) be right about everything. So having said that Spanish and Russian use the same alphabet, he now has to ensure it’s true, in some way or other, or else the conspiracy wins.
Cassandra:
Consider the many uses of the word “coney” and homophones thereof.
Pecunium:
Before I discovered Manboobz I’d have thought anyone sincerely claiming women are literally violating men by being sexually attractive in public was a Poe.
RW:
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Rutee:
Um, wow. You’re down with “preemptive strikes”?