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!!!
I was never happy with Erasure’s drag in that video. They didn’t even cover their stubble! I like this much better:
Also, plot! Wonderfully cheesy sets! Andy Bell saving himself-as-a-showgirl from the villain!
Or, if we’re sticking with the Jpop/Jrock theme, and the goth theme – the person in the video here who’s dressed like one of Meller’s dolls? A dude. A straight dude who’s married with kids, actually.
I didn’t lose it, I just got a little ‘tude, ok? Also, I like Felicia Day:
Coulton is cool too.
@Quackers
Yeah, he’s making beats for a bunch of hip hop artists. He’s got a good ear and appreciation for hip hop
For gorgeous female emcees, with talent leaking out of every pore, you can’t beat Jean! A little female sexual desire for Meller
the thing that bugs me about MRAL and the type of guys Cassandra was mentioning is that they have opinions on what makes a woman ugly, but the moment a woman expresses similar things about a man they throw a tantrum. Simply they have no problem tearing apart women’s appearance but how DARE women do the same. All of a sudden its personal and meeeean. It’s normal for men to do it, afterall they’re visual creatures unlike women (I won’t have sex with a guy I have zero physical attraction to, just sayin’)
I used to see this same behavior from some guys on a relationship forum awhile back. It got so annoying that I ended up leaving.
ERAAAAAAAAASURE! 😀
All of Meller’s greatest fears in one video!
Actually here’s the original.
Quackers, I am not saying I wouldn’t have sex with Lady Gaga, even though I don’t find her attractive.
@Cassandra
I have that song in my itunes! good lord they’re pretty.
ok last song…AFI has gone through so many changes over the years
Thing is, there are some parts of the music biz where being sexy actually is the artist in question’s job, or part of it. But none of the artists mentioned were in that space, except Rihanna, and the assumption was that all of them were just by virtue of being female.
Actually I think they included Amy Winehouse too just for extra asshole points. Indeed, most addicts don’t look so good in the periods leading up to their deaths.
Here’s the real anti-Meller song
Leslie Gore:
Rasputina:
I mean, come on, she comes right out and tells the guy that he doesn’t own her and that she’s not one of his toys.
Here’s one for the PUAs. Well, for the guys that the PUAs like to imagine themselves to be.
I’m off to my bagpipe lesson now, but how about one last piece of Mellery for the road? This one seems more in tune with his aesthetic era-wise than my last one:
Hahaha, I like the way she does the “oh you” gesture when 3OH!3 says “Double D’s”
Salt-n-Pepa!!!!! My first introduction to dope female emcees!
Even I like Salt N Pepa, and I’m totally a guitar and bass girl.
@ Quackers
You know, I think that may be it. Since dudes like that, when they call a woman ugly or say they don’t want to fuck her, actually do mean “you’re worthless, go kill yourself”, they assume that if a woman says she doesn’t want to fuck a man she must intend the same level of dismissal of him as a person. Maybe I’m giving them too much credit and it’s pure “hey, that’s for me to do, not for you!” tantrum stuff, but I think there’s an element of assuming that we must mean what they mean to it as well.
Salt-n-Pepa were the first female rappers that I started listening too. They are beyond cool and talented. I remember blasting ‘None of Your Business’ as my “stop asking if I’m a virgin or not” song in high school, cause… it’s none of your business.
More slanderousness. I value all life.
Of course, that’s why you thought the Concordia disaster was “a miracle of God”.
(Eyeroll)
I EXPLAINED that. I didn’t mean the disaster itself.
To be fair, Nicki relies heavily on sexuality too. Lady Gaga, I think, relies a lot on sexuality too in that she subverts it to create her image and make a statement
More awesome ladies! Not my style of metal at all, but she’s pretty badass, and getting to where she has in that particular field as a woman took a lot of guts and determination. (Even more so since she did it without having to wash cars in a bikini.) Metal is not exactly a female friendly genre, but no one in their right mind would diss Angela to her face.
No one believes you, MRAL. As Holly has been telling you for some time, you burned your bridges here long ago.
@ Shadow
Nicki and Gaga I’d put in this sort of weird inbetween category, where they’re kind of sexy, but also weird enough to negate the sexiness for a lot of people. Like I think Nicki is gorgeous, but it’s sometimes hard to notice that when she has her hair done like Marge Simpson. It’s kind of like a cartoon of sexiness? It reads as both sexy and weird to me, but I think it probably reads as just plain weird to a lot of straight men.
I still think that the digs at her and Rihanna were mostly about racism, though.