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Video Tuesday: PBS on Reddit’s sexism, and a dramatic reading of “SCENTED F*CKING CANDLES.”

Can you find the woman in this picture of Reddit’s admins? (Screencap from PBS Off Book video about Reddit.)

I’m not big on posting videos here on Man Boobz – aside, of course, from those involving kitties and/or other adorable furry animals, and, obviously, my own – but here are a couple you all may enjoy.

The first is a short PBS “Off Book” feature on Reddit. Most of it is fairly glowing, but at about 3 minutes in there’s a segment about the rampant sexism on Reddit, which includes interviews with several mods from Shit Reddit Says – who are the only women interviewed for the feature, and who elected to appear anonymously due to the very real threat of harassment from angry Redditors.

Naturally, plenty of Redditors were pissed that SRS got any airtime at all, and some were shocked and stunned to hear that anyone could possibly think there was a lot of misogyny on Reddit. (SRSers responded to it here.)

SRS also regularly deals with the rampant racism, homophobia and transphobia on Reddit, but there was no mention of that in the PBS piece.

The second video is a dramatic reading from YouTuber and regular Man Boobz commenter Jessay of that SCENTED FUCKING CANDLES rant I wrote about the other day.

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carswell
carswell
12 years ago

There was a discussion on r/mr the other day about how much easier it would be to be a gay man, because straight men are so oppressed.

** rolling my eyes ** How bloody oblivious can you get?

I guess when it comes to the MRA crowd the answer is “totally”. Oblivious.

Nanasha
Nanasha
12 years ago

Holy crap. Now I know why I have never visited Reddit. I would NEVER DO ANYTHING EVER if I visited that website. It sounds like an entire world made of text….with misogynistic/transphobic/racist/ableist zombies. And maybe dragons. O_o

Nanasha
Nanasha
12 years ago

@hellkell- Also- peeing standing up- that’s pretty fucking cool if you think about it. The best I can do is my “chicken walker” squat over the toilet. Good for my quads but still sucky.

ragefromthebasement
12 years ago

OT but here is someone acknowledging that men can be victims of DV too!

http://www.military.com/spouse/relationships/men-in-abusive-relationships.html?ESRC=family.nl

ragefromthebasement
12 years ago

I was under the impression that no one cared about men who are victims of DV and there was no place to go for help.

GingerSnaps
GingerSnaps
12 years ago

I was under the impression that no one cared about men who are victims of DV and there was no place to go for help.

No one does, because the military pays women $vaginamoney$ to buy scented candles, which they use to beat men into sex and then make false rape claims and kidnap his children and steal all his money, and the gynocracy is okay with this because we all secretly hate men, ladies, let’s be honest.

SCENTED FUCKING CANDLES.

Ruby Hypatia
Ruby Hypatia
12 years ago

The scented candles rant is even more ridiculous when read aloud.

Falconer
12 years ago

My beloved just told me that she interprets Andie’s BIG ASS GOVERNMENT as pronounced BIG ASS-GOVERNMENT a la XKCD.

I was a Civil War reenactor in college, and lived as a man during campaigns. I didn’t DIE from any HARDSHIPS, although I did get rained on all night once. (My biggest problems were due to my poor eyesight and total lack of vision in one eye–I couldn’t hop a fence with everyone else once, because I had to feel around before I knew where it was. Awkward.)

I was part of one Civil War re-enactment as part of a special summer scholars’ program back in high school. We had to line up shoulder to shoulder and charge up a hill at a cannon that was firing blanks (I guess would be the term) and part of that involved hopping a fence. I got hung up on hopping that fence because of my lack of athleticism and general uncoordinated-ness. But that was so much worse than not being able to see out of one eye because the year after that, Sybil* wouldn’t go to the prom with me.

[/sarcasm]

Oh and when I got up to the top of the hill we all got lectured about how the cannon would fire grapeshot at the ground before advancing troops, in order to bounce the shot off the ground and maximize the carnage. I kind of collapsed and had to sit down, and I don’t know whether it was the run up the hill or the mildly graphic nature of the lecture.

*Not her real name.

Jayem Griffin
12 years ago

Jessay, I have lit not one, but two SCENTED FUCKING CANDLES in your honor.

raspberryberet13
12 years ago

I have a scented candle burning AS I TYPE THIS.

Ithiliana
12 years ago

So why does fucking wordpress keep logging me out!!11!!?

Quackers
Quackers
12 years ago

OT but I think I’ve possibly found the worst post the manosphere has to offer. If this isn’t a call for female slavery and death, I don’t know what it. Proceed with caution…trigger warning for everything

http://voxday.blogspot.ca/2012/06/scientist-beats-up-pz.html

Unimaginative
12 years ago

@Quackers: from the conclusion of that vox thing:

If PZ is going to be intellectually consistent here, then he should be quite willing to support the abortion of all black fetuses, since blacks disproportionately commit murder and 17x more people could be saved by aborting black fetuses than permitting the use of abortion to save the life of a mother. 466 American women die in pregnancy every year whereas 8,012 people died at the hands of black murderers in 2010.

I don’t know the emoticon for aghast, horrified, and slightly nauseated, but read it as inserted here.

That post is so full of WRONG, I can’t even say. I went back to mine some more quotes, and now I just feel sick to my stomach.

johnnykaje
12 years ago

I saw “voxday” in that URL. I ain’t touching that shit.

Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III
Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III
12 years ago

@ johnnykaje – I hadn’t heard of the guy, so I looked. You made the right choice.

jumbofish
jumbofish
12 years ago

Yeah, I wouldn’t recommend anyone with a heart or stomach checking that out. That shit is vile.

thebewilderness
thebewilderness
12 years ago

It was disconcerting to watch that video on reddit. Twice he made statement that were directily contradicted by the statistics he was showing.

voxday knows perfectly well that the majority of crimes are committed by white males and the majority of people incarcerated for crimes are black males. He is an enormous mendacious disembodied anus.

Quackers
Quackers
12 years ago

@johnnykaje

I remember hearing about him and that he was especially fucked up but I can’t remember what it was he said (besides this atrocity) what was it?

I mean…his entire justification for slavery, mutilation and death of half the populuation is because BABIEZ. Women…not human to these people. At all. Just incubators. And even if you try to even apply logic and truth to such an illogical and non-truthful post, all proof shows that countries where women have equal rights and opportunities are the most prosporous and happy.

After reading that I’m even more in favour of an artificial womb than I was before.

indifferentsky
12 years ago

Don’t these “black murderers” usually kill people that are also black? So let’s say this guy is worried about all people and it just outraged at murder. It couldn’t possibly be that history/economics and education could have something to do with it? My grandparents went to college, including two of my grandmothers. You go back that far with the descendants of slaves you see what hurdles have been over come. Education was illegal for slaves, that doesn’t just have no effect on the next generation down, let alone the rampant racism that’s shaped the group. Racism is not by any means over, either. Kids in racist schools are being held back systematically.

An Arkansas school appointed a co-valedictorian when the one that had achieved that was a black female. That’s not suddenly racist, oops!, that’s a school where race taints everything.

indifferentsky
12 years ago

Also murder fluctuates with how well a city is run.

Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III
Sir Bodsworth Rugglesby III
12 years ago

Still, it is good to know he’s working on trying to fix the dangerous underpopulation problem that the world is facing.

Shaenon
12 years ago

A “rational” argument for throwing acid in women’s faces! Manosphere, we have a winnah!

Quackers
Quackers
12 years ago

I’m sick of the population argument some manospherians use to rationalize pushing women back to incubation status. Its weak as hell. No one is not having babies. Educated women still have babies. And even if they didn’t WE DON’T NEED MORE FUCKING BABIES!!!

Is there not more important things to worry about? limited supply of resources? oil? the environment? the economy? why is the utmost important thing to these revolting people whether women are having babies or not?

katz
12 years ago

Don’t these “black murderers” usually kill people that are also black?

So…to reduce the number of deaths we should allow them to murder their victims, thereby preventing their victims from murdering anyone! Logic!

Quackers
Quackers
12 years ago

that should be incubator status actually…

here’s a cat giving another cat a massage