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.)
Re: goatse. Things once seen can never be unseen.
Public figures, preferably politicians, might get the site taken down as a terrorist site, I think.
It is a terrorist site. But for some reason in the US we only call it terrorism when certain people do it. SPLC might be interested in tracking this group of terrorists.
Okay… I thought the woman dying of sepsis because the doctors wouldn’t perform an abortion or tell her where she could get one was horrifying. But breaking a womans pelvis to avoid a c section? I honestly can’t distinguish the horror level. How long do these poor women have to stay in a cast for aferwards? Jesus, maiming women in the name of childbirth. I shudder to think of the torture these women were put through.
What the fuck is wrong with the world?
I wish I had an answer for you. But the one that springs most readily to mind — our forebears were naughty in the sight of the Lord — is one I reject as too easy and simple (and also fails to offer a solution that actually works).
http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/anti-woman-suffrage-pamphlet-1910
Those arguments sound kind of familiar…
In the case of Ireland, the problem is that the predominate religion of the country (land of my ancestors) places no value on the lives of women. It’s that whole business with the apple I think. But no. Once a woman is pregnant she becomes a non-person in their eyes; merely a vessel for a sacred new life. In the case of Savita, the dying mass of tissue inside of her was more important that her life. Fetal heartbeat? We will not lift a finger to save you, even though the fetus is not viable.
We have the same mindset here. There are political/religious factions in the US who push “personhood” bills and anti-abortion platforms that contain no exceptions to save the life of the woman, or for cases of rape. These are people who will look a rape victim in the eye and tell her that her nightmare is just beginning. Or to tell a pregnant woman with cancer that there will be no treatment to save her because chemo and radiation will harm the fetus. They do not value the lives of women.
You don’t have to be female to see what’s going on, or to be sickened by it.
Oh, look: a bulldog!
Sometimes stalkers and abusers hire private investigators to help them track down their victims, too. Now some states are making laws to make pi’s take responsibility for their part in the crime. California named their law “Peggy’s Law” after a woman who moved to California to escape an abusive boyfriend, but he hired a pi, found her, and murdered her.
This is depressing, so here’s a happy video about angry birds.
There’s a mental line that was crossed for me with Savita’s case. As despicable as I think the “sacrifice the mother to save the child” idea is, I can (reluctantly) see how a group of people who consider women’s role in life to be having babies and motherhood as the only important thing a woman can do might come to think that way. But in this case the fetus wasn’t viable and there was never going to be a live baby anyway. So basically they killed Savita just to prove a point about their view of what a woman’s role is. There was no baby to save, but there was still a woman who could be sacrificed, and the fact that they made the decision that they did confirms in my mind that sacrificing women is what was important to them all along, not saving babies.
What happened to Savita wasn’t a case of sacrificing one life to potentially save another, it was murder. They chose to let her die just because they could.
I honestly think that the people in charge of Savita’s treatment should be charged with murder, or possibly manslaughter. These people are never going to stop doing stuff like that unless the personal consequences for them are more emotionally compelling than whatever sense of power and moral righteousness they get from sacrificing women to their fucked up idea of God,
Marcotte – Pardon my French, but you are vermin. It’s vile toads such as yourself who have poisoned the atmosphere of society with misandry, some such that even a human rights movement for men is seen as “against” women, as something “misogynist”. Asshole. My ex-girlfriend, Ella, who I considered and still consider an intelligent, reasonable individual, nonetheless saw my MRM work as something bad or vile, my human rights work as “against” women. Despite her intelligence, the misandrist-feminist atmosphere did its work. And it’s vile bigots like you who enforce the atmosphere.
Steele, don’t blame others for your “girlfriend” breaking up with you. YOU were the problem.
In no sense, you misandrist-feminist toad. It is the fumes of misandry that are belched into the sky by the likes of yourself. These have painted a human rights movement for men as somehow being “against” women; the very idea laughable. It is frankly evil; and I say again: this ideology of hate is destroying relationships. It has truly tangible consequences.
Aww, Steele, you forgot your new word! It’s “asinine,” remember?
Anti-Anti-Manboobz, I’ll go ahead and invite you to sod off, you toad. Lickspittle of darkness. Disgusting.
So, Steele, what you’re saying is that Ella huffed misogyny fumes and broke up with poor little innocent you?
HAHAHAHAHA.
I’m neither surprised nor shocked that an intelligent reasonable individual recognized your “work” for what it is, Steele. Eventually perhaps you will too.
Dude, my name is “Oobz.” You’re supposed to just use the last four letters.
As I said if you could read, HellKell, she’s been breathing an air of misandry – as have we fucking all.
Air of misandry: That’s caused by flouride, right?
Nice try and congrats, Anti-Anti-Manboobz, but I will decide what words to form, and how to form them , you toad. Toad. Thanks for trying.
I thought Air of Misandry was the new Glade plug-in perfume …
Steele:
You say your ex is intelligent. I’m sure she is, but I get the funny feeling you don’t believe it, because you seem to be implying that the MRA party line is self-evident and she was just passively swept away from it. You don’t seem to be willing to confront the possibility that she maybe had good reason to find your views repugnant.
I take it “toad” is the word of the day.
The following, however, is a frog.
I’m going to have to buy an Air of Misandry scented fucking candle now.