Over on the Men’s Rights subreddit, some of the fellas are discussing a recent post from Arthur Goldwag on the Southern Poverty Law Center Hatewatch blog. Goldwag looks at some of the hero-bashing comments from MRAs in the wake of the Aurora shootings, which we’ve discussed here and here.
This somehow inspires the prolix Men’s Right Redditor Demonspawn to set forth some of his opinions about (most) women and how shitty they are. The whole discussion is worth reading, as a sort of case study in MRA hypocrisy: all this woman-hatred comes in a thread in which Reddit MRAs wax indignant once again that anyone might possibly label them hateful. (Also, how dare women suggest that there’s anything untoward about a dude hanging onto nude pics of an ex, when clearly not deleting them is a sign of “respect.”)
Looks like Demonspawn won himself a convert! Congrats. you beautiful douchebag.
Well, gang, looks like the Ghost of Apple Blossom Farm was really Old Man Futrelle all along!
@Magnesium
Well, if you had enough money you could pay for a custom-made monkey spanker with boobs.
David Futrelle is only a model.
@creativewritingstudent:
You mean like this?
David Futrelle is Professor Katz!
In other news, I’ve been reading SteelePole’s
wonderful example of investigative journalismgrandiose word salad of a blog this morning, and I think I may have actually pulled something laughing. How’s life in opposite-world, Mikey?Oh, sorry…
?yekiM ,dlrow-etisoppo ni efil s’woH
David would’ve got away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids!
@speedbudget
That’s an orang-utan, but yes.
Shh!
David Futrelle figured out the number from Pi, and is keeping it from us for our own safety.
Trapped in the past, David Futrelle finds himself leaping from life to life, putting things right that once went wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
David Futrelle knows what’s in the briefcase from Pulp Fiction.
David Futrelle is a literary detective without equal. This time, it’s personal.
@hellkell Actually, I do know what’s in the suitcase in Pulp Fiction. It was in an earlier version of the script, IIRC.
David Futrelle is Keyser Soze
Keeping them to “hold her responsible” screams “I’ll release them to the internet” to me.
Which is why I generally won’t let dudes take nudie pics of me. I’ll allow only specific pictures that in no way can identify me, but it’s limited to a few pictures…if I even agree to it in the first place, which mostly I don’t. Up close picture of my boob? Sure, as long as my face is nowhere in the picture, because my tit will get lost in the myriad of breasts on the internet. (I know other people would be mortified, but if a guy identifies me by my boobs/vulva, I’d probably die laughing. It’s like I could look at a random penis and go, “Oh, hey, I know that guy!”)
Basically this guy is saying “Yeah, well, my girlfriend trusted me enough to take nudie pictures of her/send nudie pics to me, but she was wrong because I’m more of the bitter asshole type who doesn’t care about how she feels.” I wonder how he’d feel if women kept refusing nudie pics on the basis of his statement above – I’ve known guys who were really, really insistent on it (like that will change my “absolutely not”) and pouted when they couldn’t, which proved to me that I was right in not allowing it. The two guys that I sent nudie pics to were actually understanding of my concern and were perfectly okay if I had said “no”, and one actually prefaced his request with something along the lines of “if you’re not comfortable with this, I’ll understand”. Something tells me that he’s less than honest with them, and I highly doubt he respected them at all.
When asking for consent includes an implied threat, that’s coercion, not a choice (if they asked in the first place). If someone trusts a person enough to send nudie pics to their dating partner, it’s the partner’s responsibility to recognize that trust and keep private pictures private. Personally, I’m not bothered by guys who hang to my nudie pics with the intention of having personal wank material but I can understand where other people wouldn’t be okay with it. Also, if the subject of the pictures does not want him to keep them, the respectful thing to do would be to delete them, but he’d have to respect her in the first place.
David Futrelle is the G-Man.
Well, I’m glad someone decoded the post, because as far as I was concerned, it contained twenty layers of WTF.
Seriously, do these idiots want people to go around pinching their cheeks and telling them what cutie-wooties they are? I can’t imagine that helps when trying to be hired or promoted.
David Futrell is Liam Kincaid, a man torn between two worlds.
Make Shit Up About David Futrelle Day: now a twice annual event!
It’s even got a theme this time.
I am now so relieved I didn’t give in to “If you don’t send me nude photos of you then I won’t speak to you anymore” after reading Demonspawn’s post.
David Futrelle turned the ‘suck’ knob to 11.
David Futrelle is the reason Half Life 3 isn’t out yet.
Goes with everything.
It has been foretold by the Mayans that David Futrelle will spark the end of the world this December with his flatulence.