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.
@blitzgal
“You repeat the same four or five points ad nauseum. We’ve picked up the pattern.”
And what do you do?
I think if a woman pulls a gun on a man he is entitled to do whatever is necessary to defend his life.
I think if a woman pulls a man’s buttons off he is entitled to go “what the fuck?!?” and that’s about the end of it.
And I think that the Redditors are mostly salivating about the thought of hitting women, period, with “we mean hitting them back!” as the flimsiest of pretexts.
NWO, you’re being positively adorbs this evening. Good day on the milk line?
@Holly Pervocracy
“Lots of submissive guys are straight”
Hoorah for submissive guys! But wait. If a girl is submissive she’s a doormat and feminism can save her.
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@Pecunium
“Holly: I think, from some clues, it’s religious iconography.”
Wow you are smart. When I’m a mind reader it’s bad. When you’re a mind reader is funny and good.
“needed. I gave ya one for a woman gunning down her husband. Everyone says to walk away from violence. Well, she had 17 years to walk.”
Many women don’t walk because theyre afraid of being beaten or murdered. Also: Battered Women Syndrome–read up on it.
Also, which SPECIFIC law do I support that is unfair or oppressive to men?
Is it bad that I actually zeroed in on the guy who said “Hey just because he can vote doesn’t mean you can hit him” about his grandfather and thought “Hey maybe this guy gets it”?
“Hoorah for submissive guys! But wait. If a girl is submissive she’s a doormat and feminism can save her.
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You’re an idiot. Most feminists are supportive of sexual submission, unless I’m mistaken.
@hellkell
“NWO, you’re being positively adorbs this evening.”
Adorbs? I gotta look that up, I wanna be wiki smart as well. “A common way of abbreviating adorable.” Oh, oh, oh. I can’t wait to use that in a sentence.
Rutee – I liked that comment too.
I also think we need to challenge the implication that it’s okay to hit a healthy young guy, for that matter. Identifying as male shouldn’t mean signing up for the Thunderdome.
All I can do here is chuckle.
Again, Owly loves to just ignore me. Perhaps he thinks his dignity is affronted by being called Owly or Owlyslave. Trust me, dude. Dignity is not something you need to worry about anymore. I wrote this poem for you, NWOslave. I hope you lieks it:
Do you lieks it yes [ ] no [ ]
@vacuumslayer
“You’re an idiot. Most feminists are supportive of sexual submission, unless I’m mistaken.”
You’re a feminist, idiocy and mistaken is your guiding light.
Yeah, I’m not really happy with anyone saying “You shouldn’t hit a girl” in my presence for it. I try to correct them to “You shouldn’t hit ANYONE”. Because really people, it’s the 21st century. Self defense is one thing but if it’s not necessary, don’t hit someone.
“Hoorah for submissive guys! But wait. If a girl is submissive she’s a doormat and feminism can save her.”
Well, I guess that answers our question about whether or not Slave has any actual contact with the BSDM community. (Unless he’s a Gorean.)
@Holly Pervocracy
“I also think we need to challenge the implication that it’s okay to hit a healthy young guy, for that matter. Identifying as male shouldn’t mean signing up for the Thunderdome.”
You’d have to get rid of VAWA, primary aggressor laws, Title IX and a whole wack of female centric laws for that to happen. And no one needs to indentify as male or female, you’re born one or the other, except in rare hermaphrodites. Can you believe how backward I am? Thinking people are born male or female. What crazy conspiracy will I come up with next?
I am amused how NWO says that feminism hates submissive women… to a feminist submissive woman. D’oh.
“You’re a feminist, idiocy and mistaken is your guiding light.”
That is WEAK SAUCE so far as comebacks go.
This is pretty empty trolling from the fake engineer who sucks at math.
@ozymandias42
Whoa! Ozy deigns to converse about the slave. I’m touched. How’s the Ivory Tower now that acedemia is back in session? Are ya learnin good stuff? Just outta curiosity, what’s your major? My guess would be political science, maybe a bit of English lit, no doubt womens studies and a tish of social science.
NWO, if you said this shit to my face, I wouldn’t hit you.
I can’t be honest here and pretend I wouldn’t think about it, but I wouldn’t lay a finger on you.
Can you say the same to me?
(Please, feel free to rant about unrelated shit and how you hate everybody who isn’t like you and frankly most people who are like you and there’s no marginalized group you wouldn’t like to double marginalize while calling them your evil overlords. For God’s sake, don’t just say “no, I wouldn’t hit someone who hadn’t touched me,” because if you admit to being even a little bit of a decent fucking human being, the Rothchilds win.)
@Rutee Katreya
“This is pretty empty trolling from the fake engineer who sucks at math.”
Well I suck at everything, so da crew tells me. And I am up against the top minds ever. Just look at your comments! How can I compete with…….?
NWO always thinks learning things is fucking hilarious.
This explains… really everything.
I don’t know Mr Slave, an MRA?
NWO: Lookin at larger versions of your gravatar = mindreading?
Who knew. I thought it was looking at pictures, and seeing overtones of religious iconography, from the clasped hands to the bent elbows to the bit of the chains being in his hands, and the cloudlike backgroud.
But hey, if you mean it as some sort of BDSM thing, instead of being clever enough to take religious imagery and using it to represent the shackles of cruel fate under which you labor, hoping that you will be able to shake them off… that’s your kink, and none of my affair.
NWOslave sez:
Except the context was violence from strangers. Domestic violence is notoriously difficult for people, male or female, to see their way out of without help.
It really was. You talked about a so-called battered woman defense like it was a law. Apparently you understand just about nothing of what you read, except when it’s in Cyrillic. What’s rich is that you complain about the gendered language of the article and then complain about VAWA, which doesn’t use gendered language except in the title.