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.)
And now, the r/ShitRedditSays thread about the previous reddit threads… is this an infinite regression of enclosed dolls or something? o_O
in case i wasn’t clear, that was part of my reaction. like, i didn’t think she got how people who should have known better were going to take that as a free pass to go fucking wild.
@Sharculese I understood you!
Yeah, it was disgusting. A lot of the excuses being offered up now essentially boil down to “But…but…but…she started it when she mentioned her anus. OPEN SEASON!”
How about, hey, she’s just a kid. How ’bout you all act like the rational adults you supposedly are? Why not leave supportive comments like “Demon Haunted World rocked. You’ll enjoy it!” or “It’s cool your religious mom is open minded enough to get you that.”
But no. That’s apparently too much to ask when there’s a 15 year old girl to creep out with rape jokes.
How about, hey, she’s just a kid. How ’bout you all act like the rational adults you supposedly are? Why not leave supportive comments like “Demon Haunted World rocked. You’ll enjoy it!” or “It’s cool your religious mom is open minded enough to get you that.”
But no. That’s apparently too much to ask when there’s a 15 year old girl to creep out with rape jokes.
…
Well, duh. You can’t expect red-blooded men to talk about atheism or anythign with this girl. If she wanted THAT, she wouldn’t have shown up, all FEMALE. Serious wimmen talk serious and don’t advertise their wimmenness! And besides, her being interested in the book is part of what makes her hawt… so it’s not like they don’t respect her! Really! The idea of a female that shares some of your interests instead of being like the other stupid females while still beign HAWT makes them even hotter, so it’s the ULTIMATE compliment. They’re perving on you because of your mind, which is so rare combined with young boobs!
This is the best/splainingist/creepiest comment ever, btw –
NukeThePope (_) 70 points 2 days ago* (226|164)
Allow us old men the small luxury of fawning over you. It’s really… exciting when a (presumably) clever and friendly mind comes in such a pretty package. You are the girlfriend most of us would love to have.
It’s not that we don’t take you seriously as an atheist/scientist/whatever. It’s that people who are knowledgeable about this stuff are a dime a dozen but people who are both knowledgeable and hot looking are much rarer.
Meanwhile, while everybody’s (figuratively) climbing all over you, is your mother already doing anything tonight??
We take you seriously, baby! So serious! (presumably clever you!)
Oh, but don’t worry, he EDITED –
EDIT: To the horde of assholes who choose to be offended at this comment, please take note: At the time I wrote this it wasn’t yet known that she’s 15. I’d guessed her to be between 17 and 21. No, I don’t want a 15 year old girlfriend, and my own personal standards of “young girl” are meanwhile at age 30. But I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that many Redditors, if she turned out to be legal, would be only too happy to have a pretty girlfriend like her. If you have a problem with that statement, then fuck you.
….
You tell ’em, nuke the pope!
And seriously, Demon Haunted World really does rock.
And of course, our anger should be directed at MUSLIM MEN INSTEAD!
http://i.imgur.com/OpUQD.png
EDIT: To the horde of assholes who choose to be offended at this comment, please take note: At the time I wrote this it wasn’t yet known that she’s 15. I’d guessed her to be between 17 and 21. No, I don’t want a 15 year old girlfriend, and my own personal standards of “young girl” are meanwhile at age 30. But I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that many Redditors, if she turned out to be legal, would be only too happy to have a pretty girlfriend like her. If you have a problem with that statement, then fuck you.
well, since he didn’t know she was 15 at first, all his bullshit and being a creep is perfectly okay!
No, wait, not it’s not!
I made a few Scumbag Privilege Denying rAtheism but since it’s the first time I’ve posted links, David has it in moderation.
Anyway, @zhinxy I saw that. It was creepy to the n’th degree. When I read it, it translated as –
“Allow us old men who are probably old enough to be your father the small luxury of creeping on you. It’s really… exciting hurr hurr exciting in mah pants hurr hurr! when a (presumably) because you’re female so we can’t know for sure, you know clever and friendly mind comes in such a pretty package because everyone knows smart women are ugly, amirite fellas. You are the girlfriend most of us would love to have because our current girlfriends are shrewish hags who don’t tolerate our sexist bullshit so we can’t say whatever dickheaded thing we want.
It’s not that we don’t take you seriously as an atheist/scientist/whatever we don’t. It’s that people who are knowledgeable about this stuff are a dime a dozen but people who are both knowledgeable and hot looking are much rarer did I mention that smart women are ugly? Actually forget the smart. Hot looking is all that matters.
Meanwhile, while everybody’s (figuratively) climbing all over you i.e. making very literal inappropriate sexual comments, is your mother already doing anything tonight??‘cuz it’s cute when the same men who are perving on you, make innuendos about your mother
Oh god, not more of this Rebecca Watson crap again…
“OMG, some dude in an elevator made me feel uncomfortable and awkward for 12 seconds of my life…”
What is worse is this woman is an adult. Seriously Rebecca, grow the fuck up! You aren’t 14 years old anymore. Life has awkward moments…deal with it like an adult and stop whining about it like a entitled baby.
Brandon, if you cared to read, this is about Elevatorgate. Thanks for stopping by and dropping off your pantload of sexism.
^isn’t about Elevatorgate.
@hellkell: What sexism? That she behaved like a child? If a man did what she did, I would say the exact same thing. So please tell me…where is the sexism?
So, just to be clear, RW says, “Guys, don’t do that,” Richard Dawkins and a thousand MRAs go apeshit about how dare she wah wah wah, and Brandon comes to the conclusion that RW is the one behaving like a child.
brandon, do you know what irony is or is that another form of humor that’s too complicated for you?
One, you would never say that about a man, and two, if you did, it wouldn’t be paraphrased thusly:
…making the man sound like some vapid Valley Girl.
Three–most importantly–this mention of Rebecca had nothing to do with Elevatorgate, but that’s immediately what you jumped to.
@Hellkell:
“Reaaa-din-ggg?” *Brandon checks mental dictionary* “I’m afraid I’m not familiar with that term you adorable little ragamuffin”
Sharculese, he sure as shit can’t grasp sarcasm, do you really think he can tackle intentional irony?
remember kids, brandon always has to be the victim. it doesn’t count until brandon is affected.
@hellkell
it was unintentional irony on his part, i’m sure, but point taken
I know, the use of belittling language to minimize what happened to someone else is just everyday conversation for B_don, so the poor dear probably has no idea he’s doing it.
/sarcasm
@Bee; And who is she to tell people what to do? Also, Dawkins just mocked the shit out of the situation because Rebecca’s reaction was blown out of proportion. Some dude asked her up for coffee and she goes apeshit, posts a video mocking the dude, then proceeds to tell men how they should behave and act around her. Like she is actually important and has the authority to tell men what they should or shouldn’t do, specifically around her. Not people, not women, her…just her. If anything, she seems arrogant and entitled.
I’m assuming you haven’t seen the video, Brandon, because absolutely nothing you typed has any basis in reality.
you do this. constantly, and at great length. you’re actually doing it right now. how little self-awareness do you posess?
irony. learn about it.
@Hellkell: No, but if some dude was complaining about some fat chick hitting on him all night via a blog or youtube account, I would tell him to quit his bitching because he is acting like a whiny baby.
Ya, nobody likes it when someone you aren’t attracted to keeps persisting…we all get that from time to time. There is no need to make a whiny youtube video about it.
This is like me making a video telling gay men not to flirt with me. It has happened in the past, it will happen in the future most likely. But I don’t go making videos saying “how did he not know I was straight and his flirting made me feel awkward”.
People would tell me to get thicker skin and quit bitching about it.
@Hellkell: Yes, I am using belittling language because she acted like a child…so I am going to treat her like one. You want to be treated like an adult…act like one.
people should already be telling you this, fyi