So over on the Men’s Rights subreddit, the top post at the moment (with more than 370 net upvotes) is a link to this image:
If I might hazard a guess: that’s because IT HAS YOU NUMBSKULLS.
Sigh. Let’s look at a little chart showing the striking decline in the incidence of rape we’ve seen in the last 30 years.
This is based on data from the National Crime Victimization Survey. Some have criticized the survey’s methodology and say that it undercounts the incidence of rape, but even if that is true, the trend is clear: Rape has declined significantly over the past three decades, and I think it’s fairly obvious that increased awareness and understanding of rape, largely the result of feminist anti-rape campaigns, has contributed significantly to this decline.
Naturally, those who tried to point this out in r/mensrights found themselves downvoted.
Lol, a dozen angry responses to my one comment, not bad. Kudos to Mr Manboobz for allowing my troll through, would’ve got me insta-banned from most internet hugboxes.
@LBT
Well LBT, your imaginary relationship doesn’t raise quite the same dilemma as an imaginary relationship with a historical figure… Can the spirit of a long dead French monarch consent, or is it akin to necrophilia? Even if consciousness remains after death the living are clearly in a position of privilege due to their physical existence and relationships between the two seem inherently unequal and exploitative. Imo, such behaviour only reinforces rape culture.
That’s quite creative, Bimbo.
Did anyone email David for a sock check?
Yup. Dunno if it’s a sock or not, but he’s banned it.
Jimbo: Either there is no real relationship (in which case no lack of consent), or there is,and we can assume Mr. K is consenting.
It’s not that hard.
Enthusiastically!
Let’s all ignore the sock, shall we? I would far rather see pics of hellkell’s new kitten.
The sock’s been banned, so sucks to them.
Seconding the vote for hellkell kitty pics!
Yay for banning assholes! And there are going to be kitten pics? Sweet.
At this point we should probably respond to any new troll with a silly name and an obvious desire to upset people with “Hi, Mr Al. You’re still banned”.
You’d think he’d have learned by now that he’s wasting his time doing that. He doesn’t know the difference between “upset” and “scorn with a tinge of disgust”.
He obviously is really upset at Steele being found out if he’s so over-the-top offensive now!
Oh, he’s been over-the-top offensive in times past, I think. But it is … pleasing … to think he’s pissed off at being outed.
I know he has, but it was always prompted by something. (Normally something rather innocuous that just hit some weird soft spot of his, but something.)
Y’know what I think hits his soft spots? People who are happy. Joy is not an emotion that MRAs in general seem to have any acquaintance with.
Or possibly he was mortally offended that anyone would side-eye a bloke who wants to wank into a fleshlight with a picture of a woman’s headless, anonymous torso attached.
In this case I think the sore spot is the idea of people judging the behavior of sexually frustrated men.
WTF does Louis XIII have to do with anything? (Whatever it was, I missed it.)
It was a family resemblance dealio that the dirty smelly sock willfully misunderstood.
No, thebewilderness, Louis is Mr Kitteh. Or Mr Kitteh is Louis, whichever way you want to put the sentence. Not reincarnation, his spirit. 🙂
whataboutthemoonz – Argenti and lowquacks and LBT and I were having a really good conversation about seventeenth century fashion on the Happy Damn New Year thread, and socky decided to have a go about it. He got royally* taken down elsewhere before being banned.
*pun intended
@CassandraSays
Hell yeah.
Kitteh’s: according to Wiki, Mr. Kitteh’s and I share a birthday. Cool.
I’m glad BimboSpice got banned. It’s so sad that they hate any happiness.
Whoa, way cool, hellkell!
It freaked me a bit when I found that Bruce Springteen (who I use for my pics of Mr K ’cause they look very similar) has a birthday only four days earlier. Imagine if it’d been the same day! :O
🙂
And on other important topics – have you and Mr H had any thoughts on names for the lovely Ferocious Biscuits boy? You’re right, Trip isn’t the name for him. Makes him sound like one of the Palin offspring.
Well, Mr. HK has floated the name Russell Sherman Lynch, after three Seattle Seahawk players. I kind of like Sherman. There’s also Biscuit and Momotaro (peach boy from Japanese folklore).