[TW: Rape]
Have you ever said to yourself, “my life won’t be complete until I see a reprehensible rage comic in which a ‘nice guy’ decides to solve his ‘friendzone’ problem by violently raping women?”
If so, it’s your lucky day! I found this lovely comic on the Tumblrverse; the dude who put it up has since taken it, and his Tumblr, down. Be warned: this really is the worst rage comic I’ve ever seen. Click here to see it. Or don’t click; that might be the better choice.
This is why “nice guys” can’t have nice things. BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT REALLY NICE.
Below, something of a palate cleanser. No trigger warning for this one. Just some lovely schadenfreude. (Thanks to blitzgal for posting this in the comments.)
EDITED TO ADD: I just noticed this lovely discussion in the Men’s Rights subreddit about my post. You may notice that many statements in the discussion are not what you might call “true.” Also, they deliberately misspell my name in a most hilarious manner! (If you are 5 years old.)
I shouldn’t have clicked on the comic. How freaking disturbing.
I do like the palate cleanser though…I wonder why he is sleeping alone…gosh, it is just so hard to figure out why no women are swooning at the chance to sleep with him…
That rage comic is awful, and to think some people don’t believe there’s a rape culture.
Usually I can laugh off most of the stuff here, but that’s deeply upsetting. I’m glad you made it tiny and threw a trigger warning on it, David. I only wish I’d heeded it.
Make it known who ever made this comic you are not funny you are a violent wanker who needs professional help.
Sorry was already pissed of this pushed me over the edge
Ummm…..
Nice guys usually aren’t known for having much spine, which is something of comfort if that comic represents their thinking at all.
And related…
http://m.psychologytoday.com/blog/repairing-relationships/201204/where-does-the-resentment-come
Not only is he not nice, he’s not much of a friend, either.
And… fuck, but why do these people want to have sex with women? What are they possibly getting out of it?
I think 2012 should be the year we start the “if that’s all you want out of sex, why don’t you just jerk off and tell all your buddies you banged a supermodel” movement.
I’ll jsut go ahead and not click.
And fuck, MRAs who think feminists make women paranoid about rape?
Can you imagine how shit like this comic makes women feel about their male friends?
Holly, men use a scoring system to show how manly they are. From what I can tell, you add up the number of how many OTHER men wanted her plus how many times he banged her, minus how much the date cost.
I’m so sick of this “friendzone” narrative. Almost more than the rape fantasy.
Not being friendzoned is easy: 1) state your desire to date/have sex 2a) If answer fit you, enjoy. 2b) If you don’t like answer or lack of answer, walk away. The end.
People don’t owe you anything, if they give you something take it or leave it but don’t pretend friendship without sex is some kind of evil plot.
Yeah, I’m not clicking either. Just got sad, sad news so I think I’m tapping out for the day. Please send puppies. 🙁
Can you imagine how shit like this comic makes women feel about their male friends?
I’m sure I’m not the only woman who’s actually feeling it right now. o_O” Because, as much as I’d like to believe I have trustworthy friends, the fact is that I can’t read their minds, and all human beings are capable of lying about their motivations.
I don’t think this ragecomic is about scoring points or showing you’re a real man. It’s about taking what you deserve, releasing the frustration of having wanted something for a long time and not being allowed to take it. It’s about being “respected”, not so much by other men but by the women, putting her back to her inferior place.
Fuck these guys. Except not literally.
2b) is big here. If you don’t want to be just friends with a woman, dudes? Don’t be friends with her. You don’t get to unilaterally decide to be someone’s lover, but you do get to decide “I don’t want to be anything other than a lover to you.”
…Using the word “lover” kind of weirds me out in this context, cause it’s not exactly like dude is so desperate to love her.
OMG this just came in my subs box
He’s a PUA that says things like “women use men as emotional tampons”
This video he has a chart showing that women would rather live in a society with more rape
than have lower grade sexual partners.
TW
I don’t know him because of MRA PUA stuff, I know him because he’s a Chomsky dood. He even interviewed him at one point. He came out of the closet as a misogynist last year and people wept and mourned and have pretty much vacated his videos. They only argued the first few quite robustly in the comments, but they’ve given up.
Kyrie, you’re right as well but try and get a “nice guy” to admit it. I think there are several motivators depending on circumstance.
Not only is not being “friendzoned” easy — what the fuck is so fucking shitty about having a friend?
Lover kind of fit, as the narrative of the nice guy is a lot about putting the crush on a pedestal.
Just to mend the eyes of those who dared to clicked:
http://xkcd.com/513/
I think also minus how many times other men banged her.
But I think Kyrie’s right about this one: it’s not about bragging rights this time, it’s about “I wanted a thing and I get what I want.”
“Thing” being the operative word, here. He obviously doesn’t think of women as people, but rather noisy, irritating objects that surround vaginas.
Jesus, this one really got to me.
The XCKD seems almost sweet compared to this guy.
(Shit, maybe that’s the real point of rape culture–to make anyone who meets the standard of not being a rapist seem like a goddamn hero.)
I’m sure guys like this are crap friends, too.
Well, that’s more pure evil than I can hand in one day. Holy fuck.
Lots of poisons start out sweet…they also take their time in slowly draining your life until they kill you.
I know not all comics are funny, but seriously, the comic is not even remotely funny. Horrifying and rage-inducing at worst, dumb and kind of pathetic at best.