Nope! As the totally scientific chart above shows, it also contains: generalized misogyny, racism, atheist dickbaggery, and last but not least: lots of pics hosted on imgur!
Here, some recent data, most of which I have borrowed from ShitRedditSays. I’ve put the number of upvotes for each post in brackets, when relevant.
Rape jokes:
Guys, you’re not making enough rape jokes! [+856]
“I’d fuck her until the neighbours complained about the smell.” [+250] [Bonus points: Also a murder and necrophilia joke!]
Rape clock [+36]
Redditors mock a rape victim! [Assorted upvoted posts]
Pedophilia apologia:
Admitted pedo and child porn fancier compares himself with Gandhi [+83]
More goodness (by which I mean badness) from that thread, courtesy of SRS.
Oh noes! Evil anti-pedos threaten free pedo speech! [+25]
He’s been shamed into deleting it by you. Are you happy now? For the record, mattperrin said “Why does she have to be 18? So she can be in porn? Very very few girls enter porn, and if you’re just talking about being sexually aroused by her, that’s okay for anyone 13+”.
Pedo joke … perfection! [+100]
General Misogyny (and creepiness):
Ha Ha! Girls can’t work cameras! [+636]
Girls only like thugs and they’re all dumb and why oh why won’t they go out with a nice guy like me? Did I mention I hate women? [+assorted massive upvotes]
Help me prove to this guy feminism is no longer needed. (Please do not use profanity and words like “cunt” though.) [This whole discussion is sort of delicious; our pal ThingsAreBad, aka JeremiahMRA, pops in to argue that feminism was never needed because everything was peachy back when women couldn’t vote.]
I’d fuck her right into a broken hip. [+588] [Referencing Helen Mirren.]
Racism:
“I just had sex with my first black guy, and believe me it’s true what they say…he stole my t.v.” [+477]
“No no no, that will just attract more rapists.” [+70] [BONUS POINT: Is also a rape joke!]
Atheist douchebags:
Reddit Makes Me Hate Atheists, by Rebecca Watson. As you’ll notice, her examples from r/atheism contain many massively upvoted rape and pedophilia jokes, not to mention lots more generalized misogynistic douchebaggery. The circle is complete!
But generally speaking you can pick almost any random highly upvoted post here for endless more examples of what makes even atheist activists hate Reddit atheists.
Which have helped to inspire this meme.
Pics on Imgur:
Top posts on (my) Reddit at the moment:
Then again, random pics of cute dogs and squirrel-riding frogs are certainly preferable to more angry racist rapey hatey pedo-justifying crap. So, yay imgur, I guess? (At least when it’s not being used to post still more angry racist rapey hatey pedo-justifying crap.)
Yes.
Well, okay, sometimes there are other things.
And you gotta love the mentality that says rape, murder, and pedophilia jokes are okay, but don’t go around saying they’re not funny because if you do, somebody else might not be having a good time.
Yeah. I’m atheist and can assure everyone that misogyny is alive and well in the atheist community. But when you point it out to them, all it does is to allow the mansplainers and the evo-psych apologists to go to town.
What happened to Rebecca Watson over the whole elevator-gate bullshit is a prime example. Like her, I grew to despise a lot about the atheist community.
At least the theists are open about their misogyny and point to a book of fables for its justification. What do the atheists do? Essentially “Yeah, sexism will always exist. It’s nature. Surely as a freethinking woman, you understand this. But just in case you don’t, let me explain it to you…[mansplain mansplain mansplain]”
That the 15yr old is considering pulling her entire post makes me sad. Hostile environment wins again.
Jeremiah is TAB? Spreading his message of joy everywhere… women *never* needed feminism and rights?
reddit sounds like such an awful place. why does anyone go there?
To counter the “argument” convicted child rapist, it is not illegal to be a pedophile. It is just illegal to act on it. Nobody has to know that you like children if you don’t act on it.
I don’t even understand the guys who made fun of the girl for showing a picture of her face beside a book. WTF? They were like “Whoa, she’s showing off having a face. How dare she!”. Then Watson showed how there are plenty of pictures there where men are photographed with books, but nobody made a big deal out of it. This is a good example of othering women. When there is a picture of a man with a book, it’s simply a person with a book. When there is a picture of a girl or woman with a book, all of the emphasis is on her gender. She’s not seen as just another person with a book.
Finally, there is no winning for girls and women who have pictures on the Internet. If misogynists think she is attractive, they’ll accuse her of fishing for compliments and attention. If they don’t find her attractive, they will spend all of their time criticizing her looks rather than actually listening to what she says. Either way, she will be judged by her picture and not her thoughts and words.
I’m loving the Scumbag Privilege Denying rAtheism meme.
erm, he’s self-righteous about it, and ‘pandering’ is obviously a stupid word to use, but on a certain level, he is right. as a nation focus too much on criminalizing pedophilia and showing ‘appropriate moral’ outrage after the fact, and not enough on prevention, including appropriate treatment for pedophiles.
Nice try, but Gandhi had the decency to wait until his nieces were 18 before he slept between them naked.
I … do not understand reddit.
Our nation could do a lot more when it comes to prevention, including help those who may have inappropriate urges. Perhaps better counseling for those who have such urges if that might prevent criminal behavior.
But my point was merely to say that people who have such urges do not have to act on them and if they do not they will be treated well by society.
I shouldn’t have said “convicted pedo.” He’s a self-admitted pedo who turned himself in for using child porn. I’ve fixed it.
@Lady Zombie, it’s made it’s way into being a meme? PZ wept!
“And you gotta love the mentality that says rape, murder, and pedophilia jokes are okay, but don’t go around saying they’re not funny because if you do, somebody else might not be having a good time.”
And then they claim that it’s the other people who are just too sensitive. Yep.
I like the guy (Fontaine) who says, “She can participate (about the young woman Skepchick was talking about) if she stops being obviously female on the internet”, and then gets upset when people tell him he’s supporting misogyny.
Then someone else comes in to say that people need to stop looking at the context of that statement, and just the exact words; then they will see that Fontaine is being completely reasonable, and all the people who are saying he’s not can just shut up now.
My respect for Rebecca Watson grows with every post of hers that I read, considering all the shit she puts up with and all the idiots her posts must inevitably attract.
The only part of Reddit I’ve ever been near is Shit Reddit Says, and I think I’ll keep it that way.
Reddit has to be one of the worst communities I’ve ever come across. At least groups like the folks at 4chan have the self awareness to realize that they’re acting scummy. Reddit is full of assholes who think that they’re the next level of intelligence and enlightenment while spouting bullshit, like comparing pedophiles to Ghandi, and blaming all their personal faults on imaginary evo-psych “science” that they pull out of their own asses. It’s no difference that claiming “the devil makes me do it”.
And /b/ does not take kindly to pedophiles at all.
Me too! SallyStrange, take a bow… she’s one of PZ’s Pharyngula horde, and has been kicking butt awesomely over on the threads on Skepchick and Pandagon about this.
On mobile, so I have to be brief, but I really think we need to identify Pervsplainin’ as a subcategory of Mansplainin’ to cover all the apologetics and “Of course it’s wrong to harass young girls, but here’s why it happens and is basically inevitable “(Often adding: Unless you want CENSORSHIP, and/or the removal of MEN’S SEXUALITY!”)
Also the people claiming her “Bracin mah anus” comment was her seductively wiggling her butt in front of Reddit are very special.
i saw that, and my first thought was ‘oh god, she has no idea how bad it’s about to get, does she?’
and then it got terrible
I read it and thought “She’s 15. Adolescent girls (and boys) tend to say shit like that.”
But apparently that makes it okay for (presumably) adults to make rape and pedo jokes and waxing philosophic about her “holes” because hey, 1) it’s the internet, and 2) she brought it on herself for being, you know, a girl who didn’t hide her gender in an e-burka.
Or something.
Xanthe:
I was sneaking glances at the thread while at work and I want to +1 the hell out of everything SallyStrange said in it!
I posted the Skepchick article on my FB and not minutes later I got a friend going “OMG someone’s a dick on the internet?” snarky responses. I feel like such a wuss for being to wound up to verbally smack him for that, but points to everyone on that thread willing to keep at it.
Niki,
I am so sick of the “It’s the Internet, what do you expect?” meme that all of these douchebags keep coming out with: they can all leave the human race and go off somewhere else as far as I am concerned. Kepler 22 is 500 light years away, that’s plenty far enough for me.
They are defending and excusing sexual harassment and rape threats against a 15 year old. For fuck’s sake.
Oh, and about 1500 comments so far on this r/atheism reaction thread: A Response to “Reddit Makes Me Hate Atheists”. The reaction? Amidst the predictable gendered slurs starting with the letters b, c, and t, also rape and assault threats (I’m sure the redditors will claim they are just ‘jokes’) against Rebecca.
One of the freethoughtblogs.com bloggers, Al Stefanelli, started his own thread, The Evisceration of Rebecca Watson, but that one ain’t so popular. Hmm, I wonder why?
*despairs at humanity*
Evolution went wrong somewhere…
Hehehehe! These are mine.