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!!!
No, it is not witch hunting to object to murder.
What is pathetic is the sudden outpouring of support for the would be murderer.
No, Pecunium, Marcotte said:
“[People who defend the Duke lacrosse players are] rape-loving scum.”
“Can’t a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair.”
This is after the hoax was basically exposed, by the way. And she never apologized. Frankly, I think she should have gotten a lot more grief.
ACTUALLY! This is a perfect example of the double standards. Why wasn’t she scourged?
No, seriously Dave, could you please ban the lying, derailing, attention-hogging little shit smear?
Gainsbourg has never been high, apparently.
Or at least set some variation on the B_____n challenge?
@Gainsbourg69
LOL! good point 😀
@Seraph
agreed.
She did not attempt murder, for one. She did not sleep with students she was in charge of.
Pecunium said:
(you know the woman who kept her internet persona neuter for years, because that way she didn’t get the hate mail and the death threats)
implies that she didn’t disclose her gender because females get more such threats, which is untrue- look at Schwyzer. Not that he didn’t deserve it, but, you know.
Is it seriously possible to both read prettymuch everything posted on man boobz ever and think that?
You know, I like the discussion of music far more than the MRAL show and/or “sex tourists are the real victims!”
I’m listening to Throbbing Gristle’s “Hamburger Lady.” What’s everyone else up to?
Why everyone thinks this is the MRAL Show is beyond me. We’re having (more like I’m having, while you babble) an intellectual discussion about men’s role in feminist discourse.
I have. I guarantee you a shitload of people on this board have. In fact I can guarantee you that the amount of weed I smoke is a shit ton more than you, and I am a relatively light user. The majority of people have been completely fucked up multiple times. There is a reason Hugo’s behaviour is considered abhorrent, and that’s because it is.
Oh look, it’s the MRAL show. Again. Can’t we watch reruns of CSI instead?
Ashley showing up in the last thread to talk about how awesome B_don is, MRAL supporting Hugo in his time of need…I need to go outside and check for flying pigs.
No, you’re babbling in an attempt to paint yourself as the constant victim,
Get offline. Get help.
@Lauralot
I’m revisiting my tech-death days with Death’s cover of “Painkiller”, and Chuck Schuldiner is really no Rob Halford. At all.
I’ve got my entire library on shuffle, though. I’ll likely end up with something entirely different next. Which is nice. I like genre whiplash quite a bit.
I’m not entirely sure pop music (in the broadest possible sense – essentially, music that’s not traditional, art music, or jazz music) has changed much at all from the ’60s, but it’s still my favourite thing ever.
You know, I’ve done some wacky shit when I was under the influence, but I’ve never attempted to kill anyone. And if I had I wouldn’t expect people to forgive me for it. “Well he was wasted and it was a long time ago” is a pretty weak defence for attempted murder.
@Lauralot
I’m listening to VNV Nation- Kingdom 🙂
Also you are the only one here who thinks the attempted murder of a woman was not as big of a deal as the depression, attempted suicide, and drug use of the man.
Yeah, Pink is fucking hot, I’d pound her in a second.
Lauralot, I found no more mr nice guy’s blog post on Norwegian Forest Cats to be quite charming and delightful.
How has your night been?
“implies that she didn’t disclose her gender because females get more such threats, which is untrue- look at Schwyzer. ”
There are people threatening to rape Hugo with chainsaws? What fascinating imaginary news. I wasn’t aware that David had linked us over to The Onion.
@ Lauralot
The Cure’s Inbetween Days. Before that it was Russian Circles.
@ersatzmoons
Ooh, Norwegian Forest Cats! I think one of my cats is either part-Norwegian Forest Cat or part-Maine Coon! I love enormous, fluffy cats. A friend of mine has a Maine Coon roughly the size if a small refrigerator which is about the cutest thing ever.
MRAL, when did anyone mention Pink?
ersatzmoons, thank God for that video. Let’s please turn this into a thread of cat videos. (Are Norwegian forest cats related to Siberians? They look similar.)
Look, I guess we’d just disagree. I don’t find his story to be that big of a deal. On the other hand, I do find him to be a misandrist, so I suppose being excommunicated from feminism can only be a good thing. Less male-bashing. So screw it. I don’t know why I’ve gotten so invested, I don’t like the guy. Go ahead and mob him.
My night’s been pretty good. Hanging out with my roommates and reading Dos Passos for class. Oh, and coffee flavored ice cream. How I love it.