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Three Links to Destroy Your Faith in Humanity

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Seriously, if you’re feeling depressed, don’t read these.

1) Hunter Moore’s ‘Scary as Shit’ Revenge Porn Site Will Map Submitted Photos to People’s Addresses

Remember the guy behind the revenge porn site Is Anyone Up, which enabled assholes to post nude pictures of their exes for a worldwide audience to see? That site’s down, but he’s got a new one about to go up, with a new feature:

Scorned lovers who submit photos of their exes for revenge can now also enable others to physically stalk them by including their addresses along with the photos. HunterMoore.TV will then display the photos on a map. …

“We’re gonna introduce the mapping stuff so you can stalk people,” Mr. Moore gleefully told Betabeat, adding, “I know–it’s scary as shit.”

More here.

2) Creepy ‘Love Surgery’ Performed on New Moms’ Unwitting Vaginas

This isn’t a new story, but Jezebel’s Erin Gloria Ryan has written a horrifying overview of the case of Dr. James C. Burt, a gynecologist who maimed countless women by performing weird, unnecessary, and often quite damaging “vagina tightening” surgery on them without their knowledge or consent over the course of several decades.

Burt’s “Love Surgery” was based on the doctor’s cockamamie idea that women are “structurally inadequate for intercourse” and that the only way to fix their “pathological condition” was through surgery that made the vagina and vulva more penis friendly. He also believed that Love Surgery would turn women into “horny little mice.” In his 1975 book, entitled “Surgery of Love,” Burt … says that “hundreds and hundreds” of women were treated this way, but other sources estimate that the number is actually in the thousands. …

 In his tireless efforts to make women more fuckable, he actually ended up causing his patients serious, irreversible damage.

Perhaps most astonishing:

[O]ther doctors and medical professionals knew what Dr. Burt was up to, but did nothing. St. Elizabeth Hospital in Dayton, Ohio, where Dr. Burt practiced, didn’t require medical consent forms for the procedure for the first 12 years it was being performed.

3) When “Men’s Rights” Narratives Kill

Amanda Marcotte writes about a sad story related to Slate’s Dear Prudence in which a man stalked and killed his ex and one of her children – after being alerted to her location by a sympathetic friend, who is now “haunted” by this terrible mistake and its horrifying consequences. As Marcotte notes,

The so-called “men’s rights” movement is very intent on convincing the public that domestic violence is overblown by feminists, and that many to most victims are lying to the police and the courts, who take them at their word because the justice system is supposedly in the thrall of the all-powerful feminist regime. This narrative tends to have a lot of power, because it feeds off long-standing stereotypes of women as deceitful, manipulative gold diggers. Unfortunately, the widespread credulity for anti-feminist ravings about lying women in cahoots with the police does lead to tragedy … .

If you are not already depressed enough by this story, take a look at Domestic Violence Crime Watch, a site that chronicles cases in which domestic violence leads to murder and other violent crimes. While women account for some of the violence, the overwhelming majority of the cases on the site involve male perps and female victims; sometimes children and other family members are harmed or killed as well. Data from the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows clearly that women are far more likely to be murdered by intimates (and exes) than men.  (The one bit of good news in all this:  the number of such murders has been declining for some time.)

If this is all a bit much, here’s a live stream of kittens in action. (Or, at the moment at least, napping.)

 

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CassandraSays
CassandraSays
12 years ago

Hmm, what would it make him most miserable to sort through? Adorable pet pics? Explicit gay porn? Really boring landscape photos?

Cthulhu's Intern
12 years ago

Just about anything except the gay porn. Just something to annoy the hell out of him. Adorable pet pics and reallly boring landscape photos are good, but I’d go with album covers of shitty musicians. Just my thoughts.

CassandraSays
CassandraSays
12 years ago

Screencaps from music videos? That way he’d end up looking at tons of nearly identical pics, all boring.

katz
12 years ago

Hmm, good idea. Anyone good at writing macros?

karak
karak
12 years ago

My aunt’s sister was stabbed to death, with her children in the house, by her estranged husband. I don’t need Dear Prudence to tell me this shit is real.

wordsp1nner
wordsp1nner
12 years ago

The evil doctor one reminded me of something that came out in the US news about Ireland about the same time as Savita Halapannavar brought out: symphisiotomy. (Content warning–seriously disgusting.) The idea was that c-sections make further births more dangerous, so lets instead break the woman’s pelvis so that she can keep breeding before she dies, since we don’t approve of birth control that would let her stop at two. It leads to lifelong incontinence and a characteristic limp that lets the victims identify each other on sight.

More here: http://www.irishcentral.com/news/-Irish-doctors-broke-womens-pelvis-to-prevent-miscarriage—documentary-reveals-horrors-of-recent-medical-procedure-179647831.html

And here: http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/11/15/aaaaaieee-why-did-you-have-to-tell-me-that/

Also, the kittens are active and purring right now on the livestream, so go there now.

MaudeLL
MaudeLL
12 years ago

I don’t know if you heard of the other “Anyone Down”, which is a notch up in assholery. The guys under the site (same concept: sexy pictures, often private ones, with addresses, without the consent of the “model”) added a lawyer ad. The lawyer ad is supposed to be a guy who’s so disgusted by the site that he will convince the moderators to take your pictures down (100% certain!) for $250. Otherwise, they just won’t take them down. Worse, they mock the people who politely ask them to remove them (some have phone # attached and get calls) and post it online.
Anyway, real lawyer Marc Randazza (I think that’s his name) investigated it and found out the “lawyer” doesn’t exist, and the lawyer’s site is registered under the name of the website host. In other words, the guy started a “business” posting these pictures and “saving” the victims for only $250.
Sick stuff. (I found this out via http://www.popehat.com/tag/is-anybody-down/)

MaudeLL
MaudeLL
12 years ago

Oops I meant “Anyone Up”, Anyone Down is the name of the newer site I was referring to.

chibigodzilla
12 years ago

Screencaps from music videos? That way he’d end up looking at tons of nearly identical pics, all boring.

Seems like you could take an old public domain video (I assume Edison’s early videos are all public domain) and convert it down to 29*t individual images(where t is the length of the video in seconds) and submit all of those.

Or you could do that to multiple videos and submit frame one of video one, frame on of video two, and so on.

But essentially this boils down to being a denial of service(DOS) attack which could be easily shut down by ignoring one source of submissions.

MaudeLL
MaudeLL
12 years ago

About the last part of the post, I’m wondering, does anyone know where MRAs (I think it was AVfM posters) take their “the majority of domestic abuse comes from women” factoid? I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes from their rectal cavity, but in case there was such a study, I would be interested in seeing it.

aworldanonymous
12 years ago

Is it wrong that I want to see that Moore fellow face some kind of horrendously violent poetic justice.

cloudiah
12 years ago

Can’t deal with this content today, but I notice that someone mentioned old public domain videos. This is a cool one:

themisanthropicmuse
themisanthropicmuse
12 years ago

@aworldanonymous: I donno about violence but if karma exists he should be hit with a really horrific case of crotch rot and swamp ass any time now. It seriously couldn’t happen to a more deserving party.

freitag235
freitag235
12 years ago

Too sick. I refuse to acknowledge these assholes, and instead offer a link to better people. I think most people are better than this shit.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/pictures-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity

katz
12 years ago

Thank you so much, Freitag, I needed that!

princessbonbon
12 years ago

They have some good stuff on Buzzfeed.

Like the test to see what famous internet cat you be: http://www.buzzfeed.com/summeranne/what-famous-internet-cat-are-you

freitag235
freitag235
12 years ago

@katz, more brain bleach courtesy of buzzfeed:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/the-cutest-things-that-ever-happened

I can’t read this thread. This is sick to the power of 1000, so I will go find fat baby bulldogs to watch.

Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte)

Great, freitag. Now I’m crying.

freitag235
freitag235
12 years ago

@princessbonbon, apparently I am Venus, the split-faced cat. That’s cool. Although it should be made clear that I am not a split-faced cat; I am a large ginger tabby in a WWI aviator’s outfit.

freitag235
freitag235
12 years ago

@Amanda, I’m sorry! Was it the seeing eye kitty, or the crippled kangaroo?

Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte)

The kitty being rescued by the fireman.

Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte)

Though the look on the woman’s face whose dog was saved from drowning made it worse.

freitag235
freitag235
12 years ago

@Amanda, but isn’t it an awesome story? Yes, people ARE better than the living turds David Futrelle referenced above. This total stranger saved her beloved pet, and the world is a little better place because that guy lives in it.

Biot
Biot
12 years ago

To add into the “troll picture” theory of spamming Hunter Moore’s webshite, some 4channer could “accidentally” submit goatse.cx or a photo that would guarantee a retch. (WARNING: DO NOT SEARCH FOR GOATSE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. You will wish you had never been introduced to the Internet, let alone a computer.)
I, however, am more open to the idea of Anonymous paying his web domain a visit.