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.
Heh heh, “nuance”. You’re adorable, Steeledude.
@cloudiah
It’s a Homestuck reference, but you’re welcome anyway 🙂
Calling a woman by a racial slur: edgy nuance!
Calling Steele “white dude”: SRS BUSINESS.
Argenti: Might have been on the forum rather than the blog, he’s been poking around there after all.
‘racial slur’? That’d be honky, which is totes mcgotes just as bad as the n-word or spic. Oh hey he’s actually using spic, nice. And yeah, I plan to keep using it for effect, seeing as it’s basically the worst thing a white person can suffer for their status. Been pulled over for existing lately, Steele? XD
Well no, the single homeless are disproportionately men. I’m using “beneath the poverty line”. Also, I guess that makes you the misandrist, seeing as you hate the poor who you think are all men 😀 😀 😀
That’s ‘single homeless’ as opposed to ‘homeless with families’, which makes it ridiculously hard to tell because they aren’t really measured much at all. You can’t actually make pronouncements on the homeless as an aggregate because of it.
Why do our trolls always turn out to be racist, classist, and usually transphobic and homophobic too?
Because if you have the mentality that one group of people is worse than another group, then you probably think that about lots of groups.
I have absolutely no ill feelings toward the poor, Rutee.
I also believe that it’s likely I have been pulled over for existing; this is an example of subtle misandry.
I perhaps should have placed the earlier satirical post into context more skillfully; nonetheless, I’m a big believer that one gets what one gives.
Shade — I think I’d blocked that he’s stalking the forums >.<
Re: studying the homeless — that was actually the example used in my research methods course for when “snowballing” is appropriate. Normally you want to use random sampling, which means “tell your friends” is right out, but trying to sample people with little to no contact with formal systems (and who rarely have phones), makes “tell your friends” // “snowballing” an appropriate way to study homeless populations. Point here is that trying to study the homeless is hard enough to get special mention when discussing good research design. (And even “tell your friends” has issues because of self-selection, and self-selecting not to participate and thus understampling sub-populations who don’t choose to participate)
The above is today’s random research method lesson 🙂
I also believe that it’s likely I have been pulled over for existing; this is an example of subtle misandry.
Yup, he’s racist.
*hed isplodes* Did Steele just claim he’s been pulled over for “driving while male”?!
We need an anti-oppressive baby animal I think.
Well, I’ve been pulled over for driving while female, so there!
Also for rolling a stop.
Dude, you tried to mock people here for your perception that they are unemployed. Pull the other one, it plays Let Us Cling Together.
Hmhmhmhm.
You haven’t, dude. You’re a honky dude who is allegedly middle class. Stop playing “Me Too!”, it just makes you even more pathetic XD
‘satire’ doesn’t mean what you think it means, and good satire doesn’t punch down, as you did. Brown people are discriminated against on class, white people are not.
If one ‘gets what one gives’, it’s going to be interesting to see what happens when you get trolled by someone who knows even less than you do (no mean feat on its own) XD
Right, that’s why you called unemployed people “losers”. Now, you could apologize instead of backpedaling, but that would require you to actually give a shit.
i cant decide what’s funnier about this post- claiming to be edgy juxtaposed with your usual pretentious, try-hard diction
or the fact that youre such a dork you put edgy in scare quotes
And not to put too fine a point on it, but I am in fact an unemployed man. So thanks for lookin’ out for me, you brave, virtuous activist you.
yeah, but that would have required skill, so it wasnt exactly an option
Steele, let me tell you, as one white person to another, “honky” really isn’t all that offensive.
Then again, I’m talking to someone who thinks that the word “dude” is offensive, so maybe the word “offensive” means something completely different in Steele’s world.
…wow…that’s a new way to break blockquotes, I’m impressed…
Here, have some Enchant for your troubles —
http://youtu.be/WMFo3FIRp5s
Aw, I broke the blockquotes 🙁
If Mikey is posting on Manboobz during his power lunch (LOL), then he should be fired for wasting the time of everyone who he’s power lunching with.
Mikey, satire is a rather advanced art. Learn to walk before you try the 100 meter hurdles.
TL;DR: Steele is an idiot.
mikey also believes in creep shaming, so assume he’s looking for reasons to be upset about language to fit his me-too agenda.
Steelepole is a creepy honky dude.