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.)
Diogenes, even you tv recs are stale. Seen it.
PreggoPunchout, what the hell are you on about?
I admit it. In my relentless defense of the sentience of imaginary pregnant women (specifically, Rosemary Woodhouse and Connie Britton’s character in “American Horror Story”), I have both libeled and brought harm to three real people. Their names are Liz, Jason, and Other Jason.
The question is, how did the Preggo Punchout guy find out? I thought I’d silenced everyone involved in that little unpleasantness. Silenced them with pie.
Since you’re not smarter than us, I’ll go with yes.
(everyone: does preggo punchout think Shaenon is Amanda Marcotte? LOL.)
Yes. Part of the point of trolling is outwitting the people you’re trolling.
Mind, you and Diogenes are actually really fucking stupid, but intelligence doesn’t change whether or not you’re exhibiting trolling behaviour.
Oh, poor kelly doesn’t get it yet.
Okay, if you say – pay attention, girl – if you say someone did one nasty, naughty, bad thing and that person has actually not done that thing, that’s what we call libel.
Poor, confused girl.
@cloudiah: Maybe he assumes everyone changes names online as often as he does?
Oh shit, it’s almost like you don’t know what you’re talking about, Preggo Punchout!
PreggoPunchout: first off, you may call me hellkell or Miss HK, if you’re nasty.
Secondly, that is still not libel. Poor, confused asshole.
THE JIG IS UP! I am Hillary Clinton.
Going by the weird MRA definition of libel I think that PreggoPunchout just libeled Shaenon (by pretending she’s Amanda).
*cough* Tragedy didn’t “strike” in Kansas City. A fucking douchebag killed his girlfriend and then himself. It wasn’t a fucking act of nature that randomly “struck”.
Clearly family was not paramount to said douchebag, since if it was he wouldn’t have murdered half of his. The coach was just parroting the standard shocked line that always happens when some asshole kills a women (or lots of women). “He was such a nice guy; I just can’t believe that he would do something like this.” Blah blah blah. Yeah fucking right. I’m sure that he had never given any sign of violence or abusiveness before that moment when he snapped. (Presumably it was a long snap, ’cause unless he kept a gun in his locker this was premeditated.)
And yes, I’m in a fucking terrible mood, so go fuck yourself troll.
Also I committed libel, by MRA standards, when I said I was wearing black pants and a green shirt. I am wearing a conservative pantsuit, natch.
“Tragedy struck” is such lazy journalism. Try to be less cliched, people.
(That’s even if you put aside the fact that “a murderer struck” would be a more accurate summary.)
Also, Amanda Marcotte posts here in comment threads. You can tell because she identifies herself as … wait for it … “Amanda Marcotte.” I understand that this may be confusing to some of our more brilliant trolls.
WTF is it with trolls and libel?
Diogenes the shitbag, when you start rabbiting on about reciprocal abuse and talking as if the idea that women’s violence is equal to men’s violence, then yes, you are agreeing with the whole equation of self defence with the actual attack.The failings in the methodology and findings of those studies have been explained to you. So fuck off.
Oh, and using ‘hivemind’ after you’ve presumably seen lots of disagreements among the regulars here (I’m not talking about trolls) shows what sort of character you really are. “They don’t agree with my claims about DV! Hivemind!”
Yeah, just fuck off.
*is equal to men’s violence is real,
@Cloudiah – you’re Hillary Clinton?
Wow! Can I have your autograph? 🙂
@Gametime
I’m multilingual, have tested into the top percentile of every intelligence test I’ve ever taken, and passed the Mensa test while nearly blackout drunk. I also formulated the concept of “x” when I was 10. I once bypassed 2 upper division math courses by learning all the math needed for them in 45 minutes. Its not everything I’ve done, but it should show you that I’m hardly “fucking stupid.”
You formulated the concept of x at age ten. You do realize they teach that concept to nine years olds in school right?
As for the rest, so what? You’re far from being the only highly intelligent person here
OMG, Diogenes has a HIGH IQ. Stop the presses, people, we’ve got a double-bacon genius burger up in here.
And yet your response to a stranger on the internet insulting your intelligence is to do a bunch of unsubstantiated posturing. It’s not everything idiotic you’ve said, but it should show you that you’re pretty fucking stupid.
Mr. A.L. puled that high IQ shit, look how well that worked out for him.
@pillow
Did you come up with pi on your own? Or the area of a square, or anything else? I wasn’t taught x then. I thought it up independently.
Diogenes: just stop.