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.
“There is nothing bizarre, insane, or paranoid in doubting the word of pathological liars…”
“I don’t need or want women as slaves!”
Presented without comment.
Yo, Meller, I didn’t quite catch that. Are you saying that you’re a narcissist who jerks off to Gor and 9/11 conspiracy theories?
Hey, David, I have a conundrum for you. So, feminists/modern women in general are scary and tragically un-pettable, like porcupines, right? No man would dare come near us, and if he did he’d be sure to be injured by our evil spikes? (quills?) But wait! So yesterday I was interviewing this guy, fashion designer from Japan, and he hugged me during the interview. Multiple times, even! And when I left he did not appear to be bleeding or otherwise injured. How do you explain this curious incident? Could it be that feminists/modern women aren’t actually all that prickly and scary, and most men are able to deal with them just fine, it’s just that you’re kind of a wimp?
(Actually I wonder if David considers incidents where feminists hug men as a man-bites-dog type of thing.)
Consequences of teaching modern women reading and writing…
See above!!
Quick follow-up, from wiktionary.org:
Noun
slave (plural slaves)
1. A person who is the property of another person and whose labor and also whose life often is subject to the owner’s volition.
2. A person who is legally obliged by prior contract (oral or written) to work for another, with contractually limited rights to bargain; an indentured servant.
3. A person who is forced against his/her will to perform, for another person or other persons, sexual acts or other personal services on a regular or continuing basis.
Basically, everything Meller wants in a woman.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/slave
Like many (probably most) people, I learned to read and write from women.
Women aren’t being “allowed” to act like humans. We can figure it out on our own.
We men never should have taught women the secrets of Fire.
“Consequences of teaching modern women reading and writing…
See above!!”
Ouch, man. You should be careful with that edge.
No one really had to teach me to read. I pretty much figured it out on my own, and graduated straight from ‘The Monster at the End of This Book’ (for srs, one of the greatest children’s books ever, with ‘The Library Lion’ and… I think it’s called ‘Hats for Sale’) to ‘Doonesbury.’ Watergate era Doonesbury. yeah, people wonder why I’m such a cynical bitch.
Duh, he was from Japan therefore he was actually a mandroid love bot. Jeez, Cassandra, it’s like you’re not even trying to prove that feminists aren’t porcupines! 😀
Consequences of teaching women reading and writing – they can make fun of you in prose as well as verbally! Clearly this is an outrage.
I’m sorry, DKM, are you referring to me when you piss and moan about women reading? You know, the woman who has much better taste in books and isn’t an asshole about it?
That’s the consequence of teaching women to read: Nobody appreciates the Gor books anymore 😉
You know, even if being a capable human being did make me hopelessly unattractive to men (evidence highly suggests the reverse, but let’s pretend)… I’d make that trade. It would be a tough trade, yeah, but a necessary one.
If I had to choose between reading and writing and having my own home and career, and having heterosexual relationships, I’d choose the former. Being cute and fuzzy is nice I guess, but it’s just not a living.
But wait, isn’t David the one who thinks that Japan is kind of like Gor and this is a good thing? Or do I have him mixed up with another troll?
(In my experience they’re almost always sexist AND racist AND homophobic. It’s like the trifecta of assholishness.)
Okay, I humbly stand corrected. You can teach dogs to guide the blind, you can teach cats to play a credible game of table tennis, so what is so unusual about teaching women to read and write?
I still wish that they would use it to better advantage, for example, cookbooks…
DKM, that’s just old-school trolling. I thought you were above (or below, or… beyond) the “get me a sammich” level.
Son, I am disappoint.
CassandraSays
But who listens?
Grandad, I am bored.
Man, DKM, it’s no fun if you aren’t willing to put some effort into it. Bring your A game!
But Moewicus, if you hadn’t taught us about fire how would we be able to cook for you? Herein lies David’s fundamental problem – if he wants women to do stuff for him, they have to be sentient beings with some ability to act independently, or they’re just not very useful. But the fact that they’re sentient being upsets him. Thus, robogirls.
Strangely enough, I actually wrote a cookbook once – I got all the family recipes together and put them into binders for Christmas once.
Honestly, I don’t think even non-sentient womaniods would put up with this guy. I’d be surprised if vaguely woman-shaped rocks didn’t run away from him.
Honestly, I don’t think even non-sentient womaniods would put up with this guy. I’d be surprised if vaguely woman-shaped rocks didn’t run away from him.
He might do okay with houseplants, though.
@Polliwog: XD