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!!!
@Crumbelievable
Yay, Sleater-Kinney!
Beyond that: can we combine the scary-creepy and break-up songs?
I don’t troll anymore u guyz I had one of those CHANGE OF HEARTS
But also you’re all terrible and I hate your taste in music and murder is not really a big deal if you’re on substances
Nobody loves meeeeeeee
@ Shadow
Here you go, then. The language barrier doesn’t really matter in this case, since their singer manages to be incomprehensible in at least 5 languages.
And yeah, I wouldn’t put any Radiohead on a romantic mix tape unless you want the other person to get entirely the wrong idea.
And as a digestif, another Meller song and another Regurgitator song perhaps?
Quackers: You’ve just made me realize what must be DKM’s absolute favorite band.
The Pussycat Dolls.
Oh, are we trying to scare Meller now? Cool. Check out the dainty, submissive little flower of a Taiwanese womanhood on bass.
On the one hand, we have a walking cliché who thinks liking Radiohead makes him deep. On the other, we have a bunch of people who don’t give a shit what he thinks. I know which one I’m going for.
PS MRAL – I think she’s taller than you.
Disturbing tale of a break up.. hella disturbing (and an amazing show of lyricism and storytelling)
@CassandraSays
No idea what dude’s saying, but there’s something about guitar riffs that gets my blood pumping loll
Oh, and since I mentioned it before, and have since found this and learned how to embed…
Fun song about sex, and also probably abhorrent to DKM.
To be fair, unlike his misogyny, the “liking Radiohead makes me deep” thing is common in people his age, and something he may grow out of.
Seriously though, I think Doris (Chthonic’s bassist) may well be the best answer to all the MRA “well I’ll just go find a submissive wife in Asia” bullshit.
also, apropos of nothing, the saddest song I’ve ever heard
Also if we’re playing the music geek game, liking Avril Lavigne immediately ruins any credibility you may have hoped to convey.
Not that anyone else is playing that game, I’m just saying.
And we’re back to sexy goths! I’m beginning to think there’s a hidden requirement for Manboobz membership involving a love of people in black eyeliner.
Radiohead is not “deep” or obscure or anything other than mainstream. MRAL is trying to be all pretentious. I’ll assume he was being sarcastic when he posted Avril Lavigne.
@katz
LOL!
@Cassandra
it’s just so damn hot. In addition to the dudes, I also love goth women too, and punk, and emo…and anything that involves wacky hair, eyeliner and tattoos….
Lolll. I actually have a bit of a goth aversion, Amy Lee’s one of my few exceptions. But that voice, OMG that voice. And awww at Avril, she was actually a hidden guilty pleasure of mine for a while :$
I actually still have love for this track
This might be one of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard 🙁
http://youtu.be/E_VEq1AIZmU
Damn, I really need to go to sleep.
@Shadow
Pfft! women don’t understand heartbreak or betrayal! I’m sure what Amy Lee is really singing about is how her man isn’t alpha enough.
Huh. Dunno what I did wrong there. The link works, anyway.
I actually don’t find goth culture/goth guys and ladies sexy, myself. Shrug!
@ Quackers
Actually I’m assuming he was trying to pull a music snob and a women I want to bang in the same thread, and as usual hoping that nobody would point out the discrepency. Not that it can’t be both at once, but in Avril’s case…
BTW OT but on the theme of geekboys and sexism, I saw something particularly ridiculous at Xmas. So it was a show where all these geekboys were talking about games and randomly started talking music, and one of them named top current female artists (Adele, Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj) and then smugly stated that it was the first time ever that he didn’t want to fuck any of them. Cue much snickering about how they’re all so ugly among every single dude in the group.
Nicki Minaj. And RIHANNA.
this is my favorite sad song
I saw them play once, in Rhode Island. Amanda Palmer is an amazing performer.
And now this, by an Italian dude singing in gibberish meant to sound like American English: