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.
Saw a bit on words the other day, the Prof from the Macquarie Dictionary said that ‘bunny’ is a bowdlerised version of ‘cunny’.
Hugh Hefner, being that ancient, knew this already, I guess.
About the only one I can really justify is “If someone winds up for one of those idiotic bar-room brawl punches, and you are fast enough to hit them before they can hit you, then go for it” On a scale above that, where death is a possibility, not really.
If someone cornered me in an isolated place but hadn’t actually started assaulting me yet, or in the case of a home invasion that hadn’t ended in an assault yet… yes? Waiting for someone to shoot you or finish raping you isn’t necessary, I think. There are usually cues that proceed this violence, at which point self-defense is the smart thing to do if possible because you will be in a better (read: less half dead) position to do something. :p
Going way back to the title here, I wonder if these guys realize how their comments read to other non-insane people. The one in the quote, for example, basically scans as “women being able to vote pisses me off so much that I want to punch them”. I’m guessing what he actually means is that anyone who’s allowed to vote is an equal citizen and this is somehow connected to punching people (which isn’t really legal, but apparently that’s not an issue), but that’s not how it comes across at all.
Ooh yeah, he could totally beat a woman up. He could beat her up so hard. His right hand and forearm are especially strong, in fact. What a firm manly grip! Yeah, feminists, tell him what a terrible person is, yeah, he likes that.
Now now, Bagelsan. Don’t you know MRAL is left handed and that’s part of why women won’t respond to his greetings in elevators with spontaneous offers of oral sex? Women are just so prejudiced, that’s the problem.
Awww, how cute, MRAL is bragging on the internet.
He’s talking about his high IQ again! That means we can mock it again!
Yeah, allow me to repeat VOIP’s question: What the fuck is your major, MRAL?
MRAL: Show me your ACT score and I’ll tell you mine…
I’m curious to hear the MRAL theory of how penis size relates to socioeconomic success at at international level. And by curious I mean no seriously, WTF are you babbling about?
Bagelsan:
Ah, ok, that’s a little more specific than what “threat of violence” meant to me. This I can get behind
Also describing the shogunate as recent history is…um, well, in a “compared to the dinosaurs” sense, sure. But otherwise, not so much.
You know, your obsession with dicks is astonishing. Also, you fucked the landing on your flounce. -6.25 points.
I’m sure there’s a legal definition out there somewhere, but that’s how I’d consider “preemptive” violence to be justifiable — it wouldn’t be so much “he looked scary!” as “he wouldn’t let me out of the door” or whatever.
Is it terribly wrong of me that I assume “business”? :p
“Is it terribly wrong of me that I assume “business”? :p”
Nah, I’m sure business majors have awareness of what the world is really like. Even they have to take Anthropology SOMETIME (Or, at least, I did).
Your TAs must have a special sort of love for you. Every time you enroll in a class the incidence of heroin-related deaths among the grad students in your department must hit the fucking roof. It’s more merciful that way, really.
darksidecat: But the author said that he immediately slapped her. Presumably the woman walked off afterward. Is it okay if it is a person’s immediate impulse?
Mathematics.
I’m not sure what I’d do if I was trying to teach a class on macroeconomics and one of the students started babbling about penis sizes, actually. Start bringing a flask of vodka with me to work, maybe.
“Start” implies a time when we didn’t.
I thought that was standard teaching equipment? (kidding. mostly. MrB worked as a special ed para for five years, that job would have driven me to drink within a week.)
KathleenB–8 October 2011@12:36 pm
“How many effin times do we have to go through this? I am happily married. To a man. For ten years…”
KathleenB-Happily married to a FEMINIST. Maybe I should feel sorry for the poor chap, cyborg or not! Being married to a woman(?) who is jealous of men, envious of men, tears men down at every opportunity, and is just plain hateful toward the other sex can’t be anyone’s idea of a wonderful time! Of course, it takes all kinds to make a world, and maybe your husband is the kind of man who appreciates that kind of woman, or, true to female form, you fooled him into marrying him when he was young and foolish, and it is too late for him to back out now!
Having no better refutation to my observation of the unsuitability of feminists for heterosexual relationships than “you are a dumbfuck” in your post cited above shows YOU to be a coarse, ignorant, and dull person, whether you are married or not, and whether you are a feminist or not!
If you think that I am getting too personal, YOU brought up the subject, feminist featherbrain!
Vodka’s too obvious, guys. Get some Baileys and put it in your coffee, and if any one questions it you can claim to be drinking Irish Cream flavoured coffee with cream in it.
Not like I’ve ever done that before or anything. /whistles innocently