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.)
Steele is starting to sound more and more like Tom Martin, after Tom started drunk-commenting.
I forgot not wanting women to be killed by their abusive exes was misandry.
Nah, Steele has always sounded like this.
Don’t be silly, hellkell, everyone knows that the proper way to deal with Air of Misandry is to spray it with Ranty Illiteracy, and then install the Glade plug-in of Gender Justice.
Lickspittle of darkness. Lickspittle of darkness. LICKSPITTLE OF DARKNESS!
But Cassandra, we’re belching it out uncontrollably! What shall be done?
I for real can’t belch without throwing up, so I guess I’ll have to stick with the Farts of Misandry. In Steele’s general direction.
Steele, please flame out in four threads at once, pretty please with sugar on top.
It is the fumes of misandry that are belched into the sky by the likes of yourself.
Ah, lovely Amanda Marcotte.
Log review, pls try harder.
oh man, I just read Steele’s arglebargle. Judging by his density of invective (which, by the way, I picture him delivering while squatting on his haunches with both hands bent into rage-claws), he seems to think of her as, like, the harbinger of misandry or something.
Oh look, it’s the creator of Preggo Punchout here to mine quotes for his sad blog.
The more I read Steele’s rants, the more I think he’s just a character written by someone who’s trying desperately to write like William Shakespeare.
Kittens: http://www.dansdata.com/kitten.htm
reviewed as a computer accessory
A man convicted for running a stalkery facebook page:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-20/judge-quashes-facebook-prison-sentence/4382378
Sentence changed in Facebook sex ratings case
A man has had his suspended prison sentence quashed after he created a Facebook page rating the sexual performance of central Victorian women.
Clairedammit, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who had that reaction. Lickspittle of Darkness… sounds like an arcane object from a fantasy RPG.
Lickspittle of darkness, toady of the night, ass-kisser of everlasting evening, OBSEQUIOUS FLUNKY OF EVIL.
I, like others, may have been drinking tonight. I also may or may not have the thesaurus open in another tab.
I haven’t been drinking tonight, but I should be.
Sycophant of Sauron.
Vassal of Voldemort.
Lackey of Lolth.
shorter steele (with less toads):
MY IMAGINARY GIRLFRIEWND LEFT ME! WAAAAAAAAAAH! MISANDRY!!!
Henchman of Hades
Serf of Sin.
Minion of Malice.