Over on AskReddit, someone called 478nist has asked a question that has been puzzling a lot of us for some time: “Why is Reddit so anti-women? (outside of r/gonewild anyway).”
I used to think it was just because the large majority of users are men, but it’s not pro-men it’s becoming more and more anti-women.
Outside of the friendzoned crap, any comment that leans towards any kind of talk of womens issues, equal rights etc gets downvoted to hell so it’s not even capable of being discussed. It seems like it’s an US vs THEM mentality more and more. Was it always like this?
The thread that followed is nearly 2000 comments long, so far, and has gotten written up on TheAtlanticWire. The discussion is surprisingly … good? Not perfect — after all, this is Reddit we’re talking about here — but not terrible.
So naturally our friends in the Men’s Rights subreddit are complaining about it.
The legendary AnthonyZarat offers this thought:
MauraLoona, meanwhile, challenges the premise of 478nist’s question, and thereby challenges reality itself:
Legitimateusername also has a problem with Reddit’s alleged surplus of manginas.
Fuckrpolitics_again just goes with some plain old-fashioned misogyny:
The Men’s Rights subreddit, such a reliable generator of self-righteous poop.
I’ve shelled out a small fortune buying dinners and drinks for boyfriends who were poor, but would MRAs commend me for that? No, they’d just deride me for dating “thugs and losers” and letting them take advantage of me. Seriously, fuck you guys.
Steele, dude. Of course you’re free to not do whatever, but the whining (god, the fucking whining) is unseemly. Also, “irregardless” is a word only people who can’t write use, because it’s not really a word, much like another one of your words.
More for Steele bingo
– dude (or other totally random word) is misandry!!
– “paranoia and projection”
– tries to befriend other trolls
– argues that someone must be a feminist plant
I can discern no whining in my previous posts. I’m merely rebutting festering misandry and double standards in one of the most disgustingly misandrist places I’ve ever seen on the Internet.
As I said, I’m in a relationship in which we each pay our way; it works and we’re happy. This doesn’t directly affect me; nonetheless, it’s the principle of the thing. Apparently some of the Boobzers would have me subsidize my girlfriend’s livelihood.
– No true MRA
“Apparently some of the Boobzers would have me subsidize my girlfriend’s livelihood.”
Nope. Who said that? And you know, you’re in a feminist space. Sharing the bill or women paying date or gift to their boyfriend is hardly a revolutionary idea here. Even Cliff, on whom you’ve been so angry, said repeatedly that she does so herself.
Yes, Steele, apparently.
Except no one’s said that.
Oh wait are you misunderstanding the meaning of the word “apparently”? Because considering your history I would be unsurprised.
No dude, you’re whining. You’re pissing and moaning about a minor inconvenience that, by your own admission, doesn’t actually effect your life anymore.
Yet another installment of “Things no one here said.” And again, what the fuck is with “livelihood”? We’re talking about going out to eat, not grocery shopping.
Since Steele is in full MRA-not-understanding-words mode, maybe we should just stop making sense entirely?
Yes Steele, spoons. They’re on the roof, it’s really bad, perhaps they should be dealt with furiously? I don’t know what big deal about noses is though, they’re just minding their own crop of pineapples without a care in the world.
Steeledude: paying for dinner is not subsidizing someone’s livelihood (paying someone’s rent would be much closer). How often do you go to dinner in the first place?
Excuse me? You are whining, you ginormous tittybaby. It’s all you do.
I’m not even sure how to respond to this. Do you need me to explain why we consider so many of your comments to be whining? I mean, I know that some of the comments I’ve made about you have been rather rude. If you were to tell me that I was being rude I wouldn’t say something like “I can discern no rudeness in my previous posts” (seriously, who talks like that?) or otherwise deny it. Because I realized I was being rude when I wrote the post in the first place, as I don’t think you deserve to be treated politely, seeing how rude you are when you come into a conversation in bad faith and constantly straw man others.
You see, I actually understand a bit about how human beings communicate. So I know that the way I write about something conveys a certain tone.
Steele, when you constantly moan about how some minor slight against you is a terrible thing that absolutely proves that there’s an anti-make bias in society, you are whining. When you misrepresent what someone else has said and then constantly complain about how awful your straw man is, you are whining. When you go about all of this in the most self-pitying manner possible you are whining.
Understand?
You see what I mean? This melodramatic, self-pitying nonsense where it’s just poor you being oppressed by the the most misandric place on the internet (because someone here said that they thought it was okay in a relationship where one person made more money than the other, it made sense for the person who made more money to pay the bill when the couple went out on a date?) is whining.
Good for you. That’s great. I’m glad. In my ideal world, most relationships would work like that.
No. No one here said that. The only person here who seems to think that we believe this is you.
I mean seriously, what is your actual grievance here? That on some hypothetical day in the future, if you’ve broken up with you girlfriend, there’s a more than zero percent chance you could end up going on a disappointing date?
Welcome to the fucking world.
i wouldnt call it whining so much as screaming at kick your feet, if that helps?
but on a more important note do you go out of your way to use large, awkward words where simpler ones would be more accurate?
Good idea, Shade. As I said, I’m in a community in which we each burgle our aardvark; it swims and we’re timely. The mirror doesn’t provocatively reflect me; nonetheless, it’s the conversation of the genre. Inextricably some of the pretzels would have me disclose my smart phone’s symbolism.
And as we all know, successful urban professionals in steady relationships are never anything less that complete paragons of virtue. /sarcasm
Is it just me, of is “The Jester’s Fool” a great name for a prog rock band?
How is a dinner date someone’s “livelihood”? I mean, maybe if the person is an escort?
So sad that I missed today’s edition of “Excuse me? How many times did I use the word vile in that paragraph?”.
Steele’s still here? It’s been, like, a week or two since he decided that everyone here was beyond hope, and he wasn’t gonna waste his time here any more.
*sigh*
Is it worth reading back in the archives for this one?
I can discern no whining in my previous posts.
Dudey dudey dude, WE KNOW.
Not really. He was always repetitive, but he’s now gone into full ‘copypasta same paragraph over and over’ mode.
It’s the principal of the thing.
Vile m-feminists!! Everyone knows women only eat by seducing unsuspecting newsboys into buying them dinner and then pressuring them into dropping out of sports and STEM fields so that some woman can take their place!! That you would attempt to hide this shows you for the vile, evil, vile disgustings that you are! After all, we live in a misandrist society.
Are we 100% sure that Mikey isn’t a Poe? Because if not he’s just too good to be true. Maybe he’s the feminist plant, specifically engineered to make MRAs look like complete idiots.
Is there even one single public display of dominance that men practice that MRAs do not blame feminists for? I have yet to see one, but I might have missed it.