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.)
@Cassandra
Huh?
I bet it’ll end up like the Jr. Seau case. Football players can get dozens of concussions per game. By the end of their careers, their brains are jelly and they’re prone to violence.
Uh, loggy, how exactly is it hypocritical tp bring up something you wrote 3 years ago after you bring up something Amanda wrote 5 years ago? Can you explain your math here?
Good thing Preggo Punchout is here, looking out for the real victims of this tragedy. (Hint: Definitely NOT the murdered woman or her loved ones, or the orphaned baby girl.)
http://bbs.freetalklive.com/general/dating-rant/315/
Here’s a pic of my arm after a girl bit me.
But its ok with you because I probably said something to deserve it, huh?
Damn, the utter banality and simplemindedness of Diogenes and the stupidity of Preggo Punchout is making me sad. The trolls just ain’t what they used to be.
Sorry, Diogynes, I’m not up for a round of explain things to the naive idiot right now.
@cloudiah
But we might make the coach more sad! Which is far more terrible than murdering your partner.
Just pointing out that Futrelle deleted a post here.
@Diogenes, So?
Hey everyone, I’m just pointing out that I had spinach for dinner. Since apparently
… everything we do needs to be documented here.
[computer blip!]
I’m drinking Gypsy Cold Care tea. It’s very important that you all know this.
Well, maybe Futrelle deleted it before you guys could get around to rationalizing why it was cool for me to get bitten. Ending the patriarchy or some other wharlblgarbbll.
It’s David’s blog, he can delete whatever he wants, and I’m sure coming from you, it wasn’t all that interesting.
I’m watching Twin Peaks. You all needed that info.
@hellkell
Her father ended up murdering her.
You’re welcome.
Diogenes got bitten — that needs more detail. Fleas? Hantavirus-infected rodents?
I am wearing black pants and a green shirt, and taking a break from editing something that I need to turn in by noon tomorrow.
@Dave
Maybe because Shaenon libeled real people – 1, 2, 3, 3 people! I know that in your la-la land imaginary pregnant women are as sentient and corporal as humans in the real world, but that’s – bear with me, Davey – that’s not the case.
Are you getting me? Shaenon brought harm to real people. Real – R-E-A-L – people. Is that clear? Can you count to 0 and then to 3?
Glad we had this talk.
He who would spoil the ending to Twin Peaks would undoubtedly murder without conscience.
Also, my ottoman is brown. I am sorry I have never shared that detail with anyone here before. I was remiss.
So now he’s in search of cookies? Awesome.
I am wearing jeans and a grey shirt, but wondering if I should go put on a sweater. Earlier I was feeling feverish, now freezing. I think it may be time to upgrade from “possible cold” to “possible flu”.
Diogenes, I’ve seen it before. Nice try.
Cloudiah: he got bit by a spider. Instead of turning him into Spiderman, he’s been turned into BoringNaiveMan.
I am wearing black yoga pants and a grey t-shirt.
PreggoPunchout: Shaenon libeled exactly zero–ZERO people. Get a clue.
For a while, when I walked home during winter, streetlights would go out when I walked under them. (Seriously, I had a friend document it.) At the time I opined that it was the most boring superpower ever.
I stand corrected.
Preggo, please mansplain that comment.
@kelly
– The Washington Post
There you go! Good thing you have us to fact check you when you catch a case of the dopeys, isn’t it? Now you’re that much smarter, hooray!
If you like Twin Peaks, you’ll also like Veronica Mars.
And I love how the hivemind here is reacting just like I knew it would. Oh, you we’re bitten? Well, thats unimportant.
… if you have the time to complain about it on a blog you’re trolling? Yes, by definition.
Is it really trolling if the trolls are smarter than most of the people posting?