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.)
I’ll get out my Wonder Woman gear. Corset, panties, and a lasso? Poor guy never stood a chance.
The best part though is that he seems to be offended by perfectly ordinary clothing, so a jeans and tshirt walk would probably serve the same purpose.
And they’d probably be more comfortable to walk in, too.
On second thought, I could get out my Old Gregg outfit, glowing vagina and all. Man, I’d be like a horseman of the apocalypse.
Futrelle, by the way, I think it’s time you started making money off this site. Updates are sure as hell frequent enough. Do more with the T-shirts or whatever, and keep the profits.
I have custom-made thigh-high boots sitting in my closet right now. If I join you in any of my old clubbing outfits we have 2 horsemen already – surely we can find another couple of volunteers.
Too bad the Big Book of Larnin’ is too large to fit on a T-shirt. I’d buy one.
Ooh, we could make miniskirts from the pages of the Big Book of Larnin’! Then we’d be both sluts and blasphemers!
I’m sure I have a dress that’s made out of mixed fibers – I’ll make sure to wear that just to be extra blasphemous.
I don’t know, I see our local troll population more as Mystery Men
No one is the fork-flinging Blue Rajah, but
DKM is the shovel-wielding Shoveler,
Maggie is the posessed bowling ball-hurling Bowler,
Toy Soldier is the flatulent Spleen,
Sans Nom is the only-when-nobody’s-looking Invisible Boy,
Simon is the mysterious Sphinx,
and NWO is the perpetually-angry Mr. Furious.
Maybe Brandon is the Blue Rajah, with his moving the goalpost around like Blue Raja fings his forks…
I’ve always pictured NWO as some kind of angry clown. Sure, he’s ranting and raving all the time, but it’s impossible to take him seriously because his shoes won’t stop squeaking and he keeps hitting himself in the face with pies.
Well, I did just go to the grocery store. Wearing a PARKA, because it’s actually cold here now. I wasn’t thinking about it at the time, but I suppose I may have titillated any local parka fetishists that were on the street. And no, I did not get off on it.
SCIENCE!
@Dracula
GOLD!!!!! I died, you now owe me one funeral
@Leni: In response to your comment at:
http://manboobz.com/2011/12/28/is-reddit-nothing-more-than-a-collection-of-rape-jokes-and-pedophilia-apologias/comment-page-4/#comment-104421
Prove that he was actually propositioning her. My point is you can’t. Sure men use the whole “want to get coffee” line to get dates but that hardly means men ALWAYS use coffee as a way to break the ice and start a intimate relationship.
People have met in elevators, and a wide array of other wacky places.
Who cares what time it is? There isn’t some “can’t ask a person up for coffee” time frame that starts and ends at specific times.
Also, he isn’t a bad person or a rapist and he didn’t even fuck up. How can you fuck up asking someone a question? “Hey, would you like to get coffee?”…oh shit, I fucked up!
Do you have a list of “non-approved places” where I can’t ask a woman to share a conversation and coffee? I actually got a girlfriend at a late night party when I started chatting her up at 3am. So your list of “non-approved places” only works for you personally and not women as a whole.
What about bus stations during the day?
What about well lit hallways?
What about packed subway cars…but you feel lonely around so many people?
@Shadow: Yes. When I am single, I try to start conversations with women I find sexually attractive. Dating is very much a numbers game. The more opportunities I create, the faster and better my chances are of meeting someone.
Sure, sometimes the logistics are fucked up and the situation isn’t ideal, but if you think you wont see her again then you should try and start a conversation because you could stay silent and you will 100% lose out.
Lastly, the whole “inflicting yourself on her” bit is just crap. I might go along with him being entitled if he was a poor sport because she said no, but RW didn’t say either way.
@Zhinxy: It is insulting to first wave feminists like Susan B Anthony to say that third/fourth wave feminists like Jessica Valenti are even comparable. Susan B Anthony was a respectable woman…Jessica isn’t.
@OSHII: Roads are dangerous areas, does that mean I shouldn’t start a conversation while walking down the street. Maybe a car will jump the curb and kill me. Serves me right for asking a woman out in such a dangerous setting. 😉
Crime in public spaces like parks is a reality…damn all those men for starting a conversation with a woman on a park bench.
Lastly, hotel rooms often have hot plates and a table with two chairs. Maybe the guy really did want coffee. Again, not every time a man asks you a question, that doesn’t mean he wants to fuck you. Stop being so conceited. Stop thinking that men just want to fuck you every time we open our mouths. We don’t. And to try and make the claim that he was trying to get her to fuck him is speculation at best. Highly probable, yes. But still speculation.
Maybe you should write a book geared towards men looking to start conversations with women titled “Here Not There: The Definitive List of Places That Are Acceptable To Open Your Mouth In Front of a Woman”. It could be a #1 New York Times bestseller.
@KristinMH: I don’t own a beret and I left the Army before they changed the head gear from a hat to a beret. So I have never even worn one. 😉
@Bobbyjo: I actually believe that he was propositioning her. However, that is just my own conclusion. I can’t say with certainty what his intentions are because 1) I can’t read his mind 2) I wasn’t there to hear his tone or read his body language and 3) the conversation was practically none existent (a few sentences at best).
I also think the guy is rather oblivious if he was without a doubt flirting with her. An elevator is a terrible place to flirt with someone IMHO. He should have done it while he was with everyone else. If he was behaving in a way that the commenters here suggest, he was probably to shy and didn’t want to get rejected in public to a crowd of guys ragging on him and his failure. So I don’t think he is a bad person, a rapist or that he even fucked up. He is just clueless. Basically, he is what PUA’s call an Average Frustrated Chump.
Yeah, Brandon, I’m real happy for you and Imma let you finish, but NWO is the best at ignoring reality and context of ALL TIME.
Keep fuckin’ that chicken, Brandon.
Brandon the Rape Apologist: what is hilarious is that you don’t even know the venom and vitriol directed against feminists like Susan B. Anthony and Mary Wollenstonecraft by a lot of the misogynistic asshole men who were their contemporaries.
NOBODY thought they respectable.
I’m sure all the third wave feminists are crying themselves to sleep over the fact that Brandon doesn’t think they’re respectable. The horror!
Basically, if some dudebro with a narrow, ignorant, ill thought out teenage worldview doesn’t like me, I must be doing something right.
Yes, Mary Wollstonecraft was very respectable. Very. Oh Brandon, sweetie, check out Wikipedia sometime.
Getting back to the actual subject, I decided to follow Kristin’s worthy example and do some SCIENCE. I did a test run to an Indian restaurant tonight wearing dress pants and a blouse. Well, wearing them in the restaurant, that is. Outside the restaurant I was also wearing a coat. The guy at the next table looked at me funny. I bet he was sexually aroused by me and therefore I should’ve taken him among the pappadums, with his wife looking on. I mean, that would the only fair thing to do after I was all wanton, showing off my legs in their tailored pants.
I’d congratulate you on missing the point so perfectly completely, Brandon, if I wasn’t convinced that that was the entire point of your “response”.
And let me just preemptively respond to your inevitable protestations of sincerity: You have my sympathies for being a fucking moron, and I truly feel for the people who must attempt to communicate with you in person on a daily basis — Value them, Brandon! they are the saints of this generation.
I think we should all send Ashley a belated Christmas present for taking one for the team and keeping Brandon off the market.
@Zhinxy: It is insulting to first wave feminists like Susan B Anthony to say that third/fourth wave feminists like Jessica Valenti are even comparable. Susan B Anthony was a respectable woman…Jessica isn’t.
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Oh, dear Oh, dear, Oh DEAR.
What ithiliana said.
I don’t even wanna tell you ’bout Voltarine Decleyre or the Grimke Sisters.
Also, my main :”problem” with Valenti would probably be that she IS too “respectable” , if respectable means a certain vein of white liberal feminist blogosphere respectabilty, but I’m not gonna f’n try to explain that shit. Just. Okay brandon. The first wavers were the GOOD feminists, and now blahblahbalbhablhablah
Really, contrary to the “they were proper victorian ladeees who reasonably asked for reasonable things like the vote” we could sure as hell use a lot of the sheer breathtaking radicalism of many of the first wavers today.
I want more calls for free love communes and overthrow of the state, dammit!
“Maybe the guy really did want coffee.”
Unlikely, and it does not matter. What he did made her uncomfortable, and if he had any social skill, that’s a result he could have foreseen. Watson was asked to talked on the subject of how to bring more women to atheism, and she provided an example of something not to do in this perspective. Then misogynists went hysterical over it. And still are today, apparently.
Definition time again! What does respectable mean? The only times when I hear “respectable” with “man” or “woman” it is always about family and/or religious values and society expectations.
So I’m curious of what the word means to you other than “did thing that were profitable to me”.
So let me see if I get this straight, Brandon. Rebecca Watson telling atheist men that if they want to attract more women to atheist conventions, they shouldn’t hit on women alone in elevators at 4am is arrogant, but you telling women they should just be okay with men hitting on them anywhere at any hour is somehow NOT arrogant? How does that work exactly?