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.
Cliff Pervocracy:
Steele:
Cliff says zir boyfriend makes twice as much, but zie still prefers to pay for dates. However, zie could sympathize with a woman making less being okay with a male parter who earned more paying for more.
Steele replies about how the wage gap says Cliff makes more than zir partner so zie must be lying, even though Cliff JUST said EXPLICITLY that it is zir partner who makes more. Then Steele agrees with Cliff.
What the fuck, Steele?
Steele found his shark, and jumped it. He is now attributing to us arguments we did not make, Owl-style.
(also, the reverse wage-gap in the young… is NOT a gender gap, and he should know that perfectly well. Steele, citations, please?)
Popping in during my power lunch to note that individual behavior between partners is none of my concern. It is the widespread misandrous pressure men feel to subsidize their dates that I have a problem with.
And again, to hear Boobzers expressing this sentiment is especially foul, rank and vile, because you simply use the energy from your subsidized food to be misandrist-feminists.
Popping in during my power lunch to note that individual behavior between partners is none of my concern.
Your obsession with Cliff says otherwise.
Lie 1:
Not our argument.
Lie 2:
Dude, I’m a dude! How would that work? I’m for giving away my money! Then I use that money for evil!! …um, but I don’t have that money.
In fact, I think quite a few regular commenters are male.
But you once again make us INVISIBLE because it’s convenient to you.
THAT’S MISANDRY, YOU FUCK*.
(not really, as Misandry isn’t real. But if it were, it would be.)
Damn my html!!! Damn it all to helllllll!!!!!!
Excuse me? Cliff was justifying the misandrous practice that forces MEN to subsidize their partners. Try again, sir.
And I must get back to my job now; wish you all could say the same.
L is for Losers!
Oh dear. Bold tags have joined the blockquote rebellion!
Ha! Haha!
Right below whataboutthemoonz quoting Cliff and showing how you’re willfully ignoring a plain statement? Pfffft.
I’m sorry, let me try again.
Excuse me? Now you’re dodging the full import of your own words? Reading is fundamental! Good day, sir!
I wonder if a stray tag will stop the bolding madness…
Bah humbug.
Mr. Bann1ster, given your recent explicit and vile denial of misandry, I will no longer be speaking to you.
Disgusting.
Okay, there is no damned way this guy is for real. He’s devolved into a parody of himself.
How are men forced into doing anything? You know that men can speak, right? They can express preferences on date payments.
Also, noone here has argued that men should be forced to pay. Seriously, try to find an exact quote of anyone saying that.
sometimes the issue is individual behavior. sometimes it’s some nebulous sense of ‘pressure’ that men feel.
it depends on what mikey feels like whining about today.
Is it weird that I find someone breaking the blog more entertaining than Steele?
fun fact, keeping up with what internet misogynists want to do to women is actually an important part of my job.
Also, stating specifically that Cliff makes more then zir bf is apparently actually an argument about wider societal things that have nothing to do with Cliff.
the ‘l is for losers’ thing was quaint tho. do you know any insults that arent a billion years old, mikey.
Hey, if we all deny misandry, Steelpole will have to stop talking to all of us and go away!
Steelpole, you creepy neckbearded dude, I deny misandry.
Power lunch!
WTF, I thought that was just something in the movies.
POWER LUNCH!???
@Katz: I denied misandry multiple times, but my comment about Crunktastic still got a frothing reply!
Oh really? Then why are you still whining about some men treating women to dinner on dates?
Will somebody PLEASE think of the successful, male, urban professionals? Some of them are paying the checks on their dates. Good Lord, what if their dates order food?! This kind of suffering must not continue!
And again, to hear Boobzers expressing this sentiment is especially foul, rank and vile, because you simply use the energy from your subsidized food to be misandrist-feminists.
I just ate a can of vienna sausages and some popsicles paid for by my husband. My poor husband is subsidizing misandry! I also used some energy to put a load of laundry out on the clothesline, but I did so in a misandrous way.
No thanks. I’m taking the kids to the pool, because it’s free swim day. Now, if you will EXCUSE me, I will put on some VILE sunscreen!
@Ugh: note that Cliff said the OPPOSITE, in fact. Steele is just willfully misreading it that way.
@Steele: O THANK YOU!!!! SWEET!!! THERE IS A MERCIFUL GOD, EVERYONE!!!!!
@David: I feel like I owe you money now. “You break it, you bought it, kid!” *sigh*
@everyone:
Notice how Steele avoided narrowly dealing with anything substantive I’ve said! Instead he focuses on my disagreement that there exists in this world systemic misandry–of which we are still waiting to hear a single example. I guess this is it, guys, the single example he hangs it all on!!! Note that the root of this “misandry” is that women had no economic opportunity and therefore no money. Note that the root of this tradition is in male dominance and supremacy. Laugh at him! LAUGH!!!
Steele, everyone else here also denies misandry, yet you haven’t stopped talking to us. What makes him so special?