Today in Did That Really Get 196 Upvotes on Reddit: A Redditor claiming to be the owner of a brothel in Thailand explains how what he euphemistically calls the “problems in the sex industry” are mostly the fault of evil, lazy whores. Literally.
Let’s join the discussion already in progress. (ChaChaKrahp is the alleged brothel owner.)
A little further on in the discussion he makes this charming claim:
According to him, sex trafficking isn’t really a big issue, but when it does occur it “is more likely to victimize men” than women. (The main victims in his mind being trafficked men (by which I assume he means transwomen) … and male sex tourists.)
Those poor, poor Western sex tourists, suffering so at the hands of women and girls who’ve been kidnapped and sold into sex slavery!
But let’s just put this whole “trafficking” thing out of our heads. As ChaChaKrahp explains it, prostitution in Thailand is just a way for lazy ladies to make money. It’s totally on the up and up – “[j]ust like college girls in the US that work as strippers for $300 per night instead of picking strawberries for $50 per day.”
The only real problem is all those evil ladies ripping off dudes.
Did that last bit sound a little … MRAish to you?
Though this discussion isn’t in the Men’s Rights subreddit., ChaChaKrahp shares a lot of opinions and obsessions with the MRA crowd, peppering the discussion with MRA talking points on everything from dangerous jobs and breast cancer funding to false rape accusations and paternity fraud. While he claims not to “give a shit about MRA groups,” he links to prominent Father’s Rights site fathersandfamilies.com, and rails endlessly about the evils of feminism. He walks like a duck and quacks like a duck.
While ChaChaKrahp seems quite sincere in his beliefs, this is the Internet, and so there’s a chance that this “brothel owner” is not actually a brothel owner at all, just some dude making this all up for Reddit karma points and lulz.
Even if that’s the case, we still have all those hundreds of Redditors who read his comments and happily upvoted them, either because they thought what he said was sensible or true, or because the thought of owning a brothel in Thailand gave them boners.
The question remains: does Reddit attract the worst representatives of those in its heavily young, male, geek demographic, or is this how most of these (mostly) guys really think — even if they don’t usually say so out loud?
(Thanks to ShitRedditSays for pointing me to this lovely thread.)
EDITED TO ADD: Brothel Owner under attack (by a few people)! Send in the r/mensrights upvote brigade to upvote him even more than he’s already being upvoted!!!
Oy, break-up songs. Just after Thanksgiving, I broke up with the guy I’d been dating rather seriously for 9 months. For a while I was playing this song over and over, singing along and crying. I wish the video weren’t so cracktacular.
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Fortunately, I have since learned a bunch of things about him that make me happy I’m not involved with him anymore. I mean, it’s unfortunate that they’re true, but it made me miss him less.
Dammit! My very first embedding, and it failed! What did I do wrong?
For another awesome use of that sample
Lauralot, the French Pamm video was hilarious
Embedding’s actually easier than you think 🙂 just copy the URL, no HTML required!
burgundy, you just have to post the link, there is no embedding o_o I messed up my first time too
@Shadow
I hadn’t even heard of Pez. Should check that out.
Of course you don’t have any problems with “them”. You essentially pretend they don’t exist. Not racist at all.
You don’t need the open brackets at the beginning, just the link.
My ex calls this the poltergeist song – video possibly NSFW.
(Tall skinny dude in the leather pants and all the necklaces – sexiest man I’ve ever met. From now on I’m going to talk about this stuff just to annoy MRAL, until he goes and gets the therapy that will render it no longer annoying to him.)
Huh. I tried to follow their little embedding instructions, but you just paste the url? Ok, I’m doing this just to prove that I can. And because I’m feverish again, and so freaking bored after several days of being sick.
(David, if it still doesn’t work, can you just delete the comment?)
Right now I’m listening to Eric Clapton’s Layla, one of my favs! But probably not a good answer to your mix tape question.
@Cassandra
Mmmm…The Cure <3
MRAL, weren’t you one of the people sending Hugo those threats you keep mentioning?
We could do a list of songs guaranteed to make your significant other either paranoid or sad.
Or just scared for their safety. (Why doesn’t everyone realize how creepy this song is? I heard it at a wedding once and was like…really?)
don’t listen to J-pop much but I really like this one
@ Quackers
Favorite JPop song (as in pop, not rock, even though this guy is normally more of a rocker).
@katz, that Cake song is total win. Especially since “Short Skirt Long Jacket” is already sort of our song. Definitely going into the mix.
@Quackers, mmm indeed. When I was a teenager, I had so many Cure posters that I ran out of room on my walls and had to put a big poster of Robert Smith over my bed.
People not getting that Every Breath You Take is creepy astonish me. It’s not even failed attempt at romantic song creepy; it’s intended to be that way.
It’s even more obvious than American Woman being totally anti-American (although I guess the Lenny Kravitz version is supposed to actually be about a woman?)
J-Pop and Canto-pop set my teeth on edge. Which is particularly unfortunate because I have a fondness for Sammi Cheng movies
@lowquacks
Dude is ridiculous. He can get conspiracy theoryish at times, but he’s consistently entertaining and thoughtful, and technically flawless. I really like The Hills’ Summerland too.
Exactly! Sting wrote the damn thing and even he says that it’s creepy.
RE American Woman, it fits right alongside all the idiots who don’t realise that Born in the USA is a protest song.
Awesome breakupish song
the beat is sublime
And who think Rockin’ In The Free World is a party anthem!