So the other day I got an interesting comment from a new fan. And by “fan,” I mean someone who hates my guts. “Casper” makes what he evidently thinks is a devastating indictment of my main modus operandi – that is, quoting misogynist dunderheads, and mocking them.
Clever. You encourage hatred towards men while using their own language to shame them. …
You’re just a hate-mongerer albeit an intelligent and creative one. Hitler would have just loved you
That’s right. I “encourage hatred towards men” by reporting what some dudes actually post on the internet, usually under a fake name that can’t be traced back to them. Pointing out when someone says something shitty evidently makes me as bad as Hitler. (I should note that I mock specific men, not men in general, and that I also mock specific women with similar opinions.)
Casper also complains that “[e]ven the name of your site is an effort to shame men.” Again, I should point out that the dumb punny title of this blog isn’t directed at all men, merely those who act like misogynist boobs (or, if you prefer, boobz). “Boob” is pretty much the mildest insult I can think of, not to mention one that is a bit archaic; it’s a bit like calling someone a ruffian or a jackanape. Frankly, it’s far too nice a name for many of the people I write about here.
Of course, Casper isn’t the only one who feels that pointing out the offensive crap that people say is somehow equivalent of starting a death camp in your backyard. Take the many critics of ShitRedditSays.
For those who aren’t familiar with the ways of Reddit, ShitRedditSays (or SRS) is a user-created forum (subreddit) on Reddit devoted to pointing out some of the worst, most bigoted and awful crap posted on Reddit that nonetheless gets upvotes and acclaim from Reddit regulars.
The SRS modus operandi may seem a bit familiar to anyone who reads Man Boobz: SRSers find highly upvoted crap on Reddit and post it to their subreddit, where others react with horror and/or laugh about how hilariously awful it is. They don’t send out “downvote brigades” to downvote the crap they link to; they don’t try to track the bigots down in the real world and harass them. No, SRSers post what they find, and they mock.
On a couple of occasions, they’ve gone further. When they discovered that actual child porn was being circulated in Reddit’s “Jailbait” subreddit, a hangout for ephebophile creepers to creep on pictures of underage girls, SRSers spread the word beyond Reddit, and the resulting media attention led to Reddit finally deleting that subreddit.
Problem solved? Not exactly; the creepers merely moved on to any number of other subreddits devoted to the sexualization of underage girls. And so SRS struck again, alerting the media to the fact that Reddit still hosted a forum even creepier than r/jailbait – that is, r/preteen_girls, devoted to sexualized pictures of girls under the age of 13. This time, the Reddit admins moved more quickly, and banned all the subreddits that, in their words, “focus on sexualization of children.”
And apparently the Reddit admins are still pissed off about it. Recently, someone on Reddit leaked the log of a private chat between a Reddit moderator and one of the site’s administrators (that is, someone who actually works at Reddit). (See here and here for more details.)
The admin, known as hueypriest, described SRS’s attempts to get child porn and other material sexualizing children off of Reddit as “kind of like a forrest [sic] fire,” and grumbled about SRSers and other opponents of child porn sending “frivolous tips” to the FBI:
the fbi is not interested in following up leads of 17 year olds who’s boyfriends post shit on the internet
And evidently neither was Reddit, until SRSers and others revealed what was going on in its sleaziest subreddits to the world.
Again, all SRS did was to point out what was there.
Ever since Reddit’s belated shutdown of what hueypriest euphemistically described as the “questionable” subreddits, there’s a lot of talk on Reddit about how SRS needs to be shut down.
A couple of comments in the SubredditDrama subreddit pretty much sum up the frustrations a lot of us feel towards Reddit’s admins and many of the site’s users. 1338h4x writes:
Subreddits sexualizing kids? Let that slide for 5 years until the public pressure and bad PR is finally too much. Subreddit calling out sexism, bigotry, etc? SHUT IT DOWN RIGHT NOW!
This would just be the ultimate validation of SRS’s message. I dare them to do it.
Matriarchy adds:
Making reddit look bad = the worst thing. Perhaps they should stay on the ball and actually get rid off the terrible shit in advance … you know, that way they don’t look bad by having a policy that tacitly allows child pornography to remain on the website for extended periods of time.
You would think this is a no-brainer. Apparently this is not the case~
Apparently.
Huh. It appears I have stolen Cloudiah’s image through some sort of computer witchery I don’t understand. Weeeeird.
@David
it’s the latest thread titled Patriarchy….seems that comment now got one upvote, one downvote
You are giving a rat’s ass about it, since you’re posting about it here.
And I wouldn’t start complaining about other people’s comments not being clever or interesting.
XD
@Ben:
A few months ago, Reddit chose one particular user named AnnArbor as its’ Redditor of the Day’. Turns out AnnArbor (in addition to moderating the mensrights subreddit, because of course he does) is a big fan of the beatingwomen subreddit and once said that a false rape accuser deserved to have her throat slashed. They later apologized, but the fact that none of this readily-avilable information was known to them is pretty disgusting and reflects badly on that entire site’s staff. I also second what Dubz said above about the ridiculous fact that the administrators tolerated child porn at all.
@Viscaria- I’m still seeing the randomly generated avatar.
@mags- If you don’t care to have an informed opinion, don’t try to play where other people are having informed opinions. David has covered this story; search the backlogs. Read up, come back, then we can talk.
Just to make it suuuuuper easy for you mags, here’s the screenshot of the thread.
http://i.imgur.com/kGYgt.png
Mags, SRS tends to pick on posts that are filled with pretty obvious bigotry. Like:
“Black people: stupid niggers.”
Which is a comment with +22 upvotes that the SRSers are discussing now.
So they link to it. They don’t go into the subreddits to downvote, they don’t go into the subreddits to comment. They leave it alone.
How exactly does this merit the subreddit being shut down?
Sometimes SRS points to posts that some people might not see as sexism or bigotry, perhaps even some that you might agree with. But again,They don’t go into the subreddits to downvote, they don’t go into the subreddits to comment. They leave it alone.
And if you agree with the comment being highlighted, what difference does it make it the SRS people are talking about it. Wouldn’t that just give more publicity to views you agree with?
And how exactly does linking to something and commenting on it merit SRS gettings hut down? Linking to things and commenting on them is pretty much the entire internet.
Yes, there are people who comment on SRS who also go into MR and comment, but that’s separate from the SRS subreddit itself. That’s just individuals on reddit.
Aside from that, SRS’s main accomplishment has been getting REddit to finally shut down a subreddit where actual child porn was being passed around (r/jailbait) and others that were filled with sexualized pictures of girls younger than 13.
So again what would merit them getting shut down?
Crumbs: it’s AnnArchist, not AnnArbor. He’s still an MR mod, and still an asshole.
It’s pretty simple, David… SRS is saying stuff that mags doesn’t agree with, so she wants them banned.
Wait, I’ve heard this before…
I just like the irony of srs crying about being censored when they are proud of having banned over 3000 people.
and david, stop trying to associate mra’s (and me) with all the stuff srs posts, by intimating that I might agree with the n*gger comment above…It’s a weak, cheap shot.
So banning child pornographers is not an accomplishment worthy of pride?
Also an invisible shot…
Make that “imaginary” rather than invisible, i haz smrt.
@mags- the difference between kicking individuals out of your group, and banning a group that not doing nor advocating for illegal things. learn it.
@M Dubz
What?
@kirbywarp – I dedicate this song to you (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7PKAnaHlis)
Was anyone else confused by what I said? (sometimes I type word salad and people don’t understand me)
Yep, that was the mature and thoughtful response there. My respect for you is sailing through the roof and stuff.
Mags, you show up here to defend the MRAs frequently and then show up snickering about SRS being shut down. You do act like you are in favor of the rapists, pedos and racists when you come out in their corner.
Now, now, Bostonian. She’s not unreasonable, she just wants those who disagree with her to “please die.” Let’s not paint her in a negative light now.
@magdelyn – Aw, that’s sweet. 🙂 In that case, I shall dedicate this song to you.
In other words, you’re lying down with dogs and complaining that it unfair of us to notice when you get up with fleas.
*it’s
Magdalyn, what the ducksauce is wrong with you. He explained SRS and you took it as an attack? You also don’t seem to know what the fempire is.
If you’re so hardup, then why don’t you whinge about Reddit having a ban feature at -all-? Because at this point it just sounds like you might be angry that the Gynocracy told you not to let the door hit you on the way out.
-An SRSister
Shame, my witty rejoinder was buried on the last page. 🙁
Scroll back if you want to taste my fiery wrath, Mags. Or if you just want a nice moment of zen.
Is there a song called “What the Fuck Are You Doing With Your Life”? Because if there is, I’d like to dedicate it to the US healthcare system after the clusterfuck of a day I had interacting with it.