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.)
ugh you guys are making me hungry
Also since we’re talking food I have to share my favorite food blog. I don’t think she’s doing anything New Year-related, but it’s a great blog to have on file in general. The Nonya recipes are especially worth checking out, as those can be hard to find.
http://rasamalaysia.com/
@Cassandra: I have both! And that dish sounds perfect. I have some things to research tomorrow.
Have you seen the blog Momofuku for 2:
http://momofukufor2.com/
I’m fairly certain it’s inactive now. And heaven knows the “blog the cookbook” thing has been done to death. But I love the Momofuku restaurants, and the blog is really well done. And she mixes in a whole bunch of recipes for Asian food based on what she likes to cook and eat. There are some real winners.
This is another sweet one.
http://www.lafujimama.com/2011/12/kuromame/
I’m actually going to try to get my hands on some special soba from Nagano that my local store is bringing in just for New Years too. We’ll see if I can make it over there before it’s sold out.
Will check that one out, thank you! I am a food nerd, always looking for new recipes.
Speaking of blogging from cookbooks, I keep meaning to try this one.
http://rasamalaysia.com/almost-famous-or-maybe-not/
But I have another new fish on my list to try first. Anyone know how best to cook opah? I keep seeing it at the market, flown in from Hawaii, and it looks awesome so I’m dying to try cooking it.
Oh, hey, it looks like talking about cooking is the way to scare Brandon away. Maybe cooking is too girly.
Nice goal post shift there.
No one criticized him for starting a conversation. They criticized him for propositioning her. In an elevator, in the middle of the night.
Cause we all know what that fucking means even if you want to pretend like you don’t.
That doesn’t mean he’s a bad person, or a rapist, or a pervert. It just means he fucked up. For those of us on the receiving end, these fuckups become less and less “cute” after dealing with them for a few decades.
This is not a fucking mystery. This is not a case of women being difficult to understand.
Other places to proposition women that *might* not result in sexy time action, and might result in some manner of hostility: Dark alleys, lonely subway cars, bus stations at night, in the women’s bathroom.
Get it?
That shit is what might get you pepper sprayed. Asking a woman to meet you for coffee later, at some daylight hour in a public place will not. So quit. fucking. equivocating.
@Brandon
I don’t get it, are you saying that he could have not been flirting so we shouldn’t react to this as if he was or are you saying that he could have been flirting but that’s totally okay because how the fuck was he supposed to know that she would not appreciate being hit on after giving a lecture on how women are being repelled from the conference and the community because they are constantly being hit upon rather than being engaged with?
And as far as your comment about men not knowing when to approach, most men are quite able to read women’s body language just as well as we read men’s body language. Of course sometimes you may make a mistake but your “We simply open our mouths, take a chance and see if we do or don’t get rejected” is some bizarre bullshit. I don’t just mindlessly throw out propositions to every woman that I find sexually attractive, I put thought into whether or not I should approach her, I look for some sign of reciprocal interest and, while I am personally not a very sexually confident guy without a lot of liquid courage, even my male friends who are confident and frequently successful put thought into what they do. We do not use our dicks like divining rods and just go wherever they pull us. And if I were to follow your “I will definitely lose if I don’t open my mouth…so opening my mouth and starting ANY conversation will exponentially improve my odds” screed in this particular type of scenario that is actually very entitled of me. For me to wildly throw out a proposition or attempt to flirt with a woman who has shown no sign (real or perceived) whatsoever of being interested in me IS entitled because I’m inflicting myself on this random woman simply because I’m hoping to get my dick wet or because I might be interested in a relationship with this person, showing no regard to the fact that her disposition shows no desire for any sort of interaction with me/
Our New Year’s tradition is to all go to my friend’s annual family new year party so I’m looking forward to copious amounts of liquor, weed and West Indian food! Jerk chicken, jerk salmon, goat curry.. MMMMM goat curry *drools*
You know, there have been experiments done on this, and it turns out that the best predictor of whether or not a man will be successful when approaching the woman isn’t how he does it or what he says – it’s that they’re approaching women who’ve already in some way indicated interest in them. This lines up with my life experience. Observing the men who I know, the ones who are most successful in their approaches only approach women who’ve already been flirting with them, and the ones who strike out all the time seem to pay no attention at all to whether or not the women they’re approaching have shown any sign of interest.
Then again, the kids of assholes we’re arguing with in this case probably see “she ended up alone in an elevator with me” or “she was out and about at 4 am” as signs of interest.
So, Cassandrasays, in a roundabout way, Brandon can be warded off with garlic?
Which I will use on new years to buy Garlic.
Also why am I not surprised that Brandon thinks the horrific culture of abuse in the Catholic Church is all about not letting the priests get laid…
SHOCKING THOUGHT priests can actually break their vows with consenting adults even if celibacy and repression are the issue! There’s no amount of repression and frustration thar leads to child rape!
Eek! I meant “On New Years to make Garlic Bread ” – damn mobile
I heard crazy stories about women calling themselves feminists in the olden days, and fighting for property rights, and birth control info, and suffrage, and the end of Coverage … Some sort of…”first wave ” ….. ALAS! All history before around the time Brandon showed up is pretty fuzzy…
Fun fact for all etymology fans- Hubertine Auclert coined the term feminisme in France circa 1880, and. “Feminism ” comes into common usage in the US circa 1900 🙂
In the beginning, it was 1981, and vaguely humanoid in terrible clothes roamed the land. And then the first and only real, actual person was born.
He hasn’t shut up since.
Oh hell, are we going to have to rehash Elevatorgate all over again?
HEY, INTERNET PEOPLE, ELEVATORS ARE NOT A PLACE TO TRY AND PICK UP WOMEN. HUMANS IN GENERAL DON’T LIKE BEING HIT ON BY STRANGE PEOPLE WHILE TRAPPED IN A SMALL METAL BOX WITH THEM.
Elevators are potentially-dangerous places, being confined spaces, and, while not as prevalent as the hype may suggest, crime in an elevator is a reality. Girls are commonly taught to be aware of who they are sharing the elevator with, or even not to ride alone in an elevator with a stranger. Being assaulted in an elevator is not unheard of, nor is BEING FUCKING KILLED IN ONE.
Furthermore, internet men, ASKING A WOMAN UP TO YOUR HOTEL ROOM “FOR COFFEE” IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING WILL BE INTERPRETED BY THE NON-DERANGED AS YOU TRYING TO GET HER INTO YOUR BED. If it is about coffee and conversation, and not sex, then invite her to come with you to a public space that serves coffee — NOT YOUR ROOM.
If a woman publicly mentions how she dislikes being objectified, TAKE THE HINT. PLEASE. Don’t let the first words out of your mouth to this person be about how you’d like to take her someplace private for sex.
Did I get everything?
Who, I just skipped two pages of the Brandon show (after reading a few comments), it’s not getting any better.
Trolls, don’t do that.
Be funny, interesting, original or at least be a little on topic.
I’ve long given up responding to Brandon directly because not only is he unbelievably dull, but he clearly has no fucking clue just what a dullard he is.
And although there’s usually lots of entertaining stuff surrounding his posts (especial props to Lauralot this time round), they come at the price of having to read or at least skim his tediously solipsistic screeds.
I’m loath to advocate outright censorship, but is there any way that personal killfiles could be introduced? Because I honestly don’t think Brandon has anything more to say to me that he hasn’t already said fifteen billion times, usually in the same drearily unimaginative way.
“And although there’s usually lots of entertaining stuff surrounding his posts (especial props to Lauralot this time round)”
Yes, I saw the music parodies. Shame on my musical culture, I couldn’t recognize half of them.
I’m a totally advocate of moderation, and since Brandon’s not been able to say anything remotely insightful or intelligent and insist on derailing to topics HE wants to talk about instead of the topic at hand, maybe losing posting privileges until he wises up would be a shock to the system (it took a couple of rounds, but it seems to have worked for MRA so far, right?).
…or just increase the stupid and send him to another blog, probably one on the Boobz list where he can get all the validation he can wants, with an extra helping of martyr-dom from being “censored”.
I honestly don’t care as long as he stops stinking up this corner of the blogosphere, really.
Also, guys, don’t do that.
If we’re going to have a banhammer, I’d say a far better candidate is MSN, whose posts really have devolved to about the level of the wanking lunatic who throws his spooge in Jodie Foster’s eye in Silence of the Lambs.
“Yes, yes, MSN, we know you think you can smell it, but you don’t have to keep telling everyone. Can someone get his nighty-night pills please?”
Furthermore, internet men, ASKING A WOMAN UP TO YOUR HOTEL ROOM “FOR COFFEE” IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING WILL BE INTERPRETED BY THE NON-DERANGED AS YOU TRYING TO GET HER INTO YOUR BED.
Tsk. Didn’t you know that everyone knows that every word ever said by anybody ever is always about sex at all times (evolutionary psychology, don’tcha know) – except when men need to look like they’re being falsely accused of sexual harassment, in which case they’ve just spoken the first innocent, non-sexual words in the history of history itself?
Gaw! It’s so obvious!
(I used to live near a sushi restaurant called Oishiii. Having three ‘i’s in a row is pretty impressive, but you can always squeeze an extra one in with Japanese…)
Elevator shit again? Brandon, she mentioned it was creepy and that’s it. It was in fact man who decided to blow the whole thing out of proportion by saying how unfair it is to not be able to pick up chicks in elevators. Much like you’re doing now in fact. Give it a rest for god sake.