Hey, do you need an instant karma boost on Reddit? Here’s how to get yourself hundreds of upvotes in four easy steps!
1) Make or find a misogynistic meme graphic that suggests women are terrible and makes light of domestic violence
2) Post it to the AdviceAnimals subreddit with the headline “I know I’m going to get downvoted into oblivion, but its true….”
3) There is no step 3
4) Enjoy your hundreds of upvotes!
Huh. I guess that’s really only two steps.
Graphic after the jump because — trigger warning — it makes light of domestic violence, as do several of the other comments I’m going to quote.
It’s funny because it’s true!
(Note: That last statement is completely false.)
In the comments, one clever fella piggybacked off of the OP’s misogyny to win a couple hundred upvotes of his own with this hilarious comment:
And this guy won himself a couple dozen upvotes with a nice little list about how awful women are — and got his comment linked to in r/mensrights for allegedly providing great insight into “how Women are set on a pedestal in today’s society.”
Oh, but don’t worry, some brave Redditors stood up to defend women from these not-so-nice generalizations. Like this guy:
Huh. I guess that isn’t much of a defense after all, considering that it blames domestic violence on “immature bitch[es].”
Reddit: Where “chivalry” means suggesting that not all women are “immature bitches” who deserve to get punched. Just some of them.
The Advice Animals subreddit: amazingly, often worse than r/mensrights. It’s not clear if this is because the denizens of r/adviceanimals are actually more baldly misogynistic than the r/mensrights regulars, or if it’s just that the folks in r/mensrights know that really obvious outbursts of misogyny tend to make them look bad.
Also also! Kittehs and I could never eat out, she’d be all “so, what on this menu isn’t incredibly spicy?” and I’d be all “um, the plain steamed rice?”. I’m trying to think of restaurants that I frequent that are spice-free and all I can come up with is the one burger joint.
Ooh, there can be a real stigma against not liking spicy food! There’s the wimpy implication, and people act like the food you do eat must just be bland and flavorless.
You know, I love spicy food (and since I have bad allergies is really helps to clear the nose), but I hate when people turn it into a competitive thing, so you’re all sitting around the table with none of the guys (it’s always guys) being willing to admit that they’re not actually enjoying their food, which they ordered extra spicy and are now picking at with a pained expression.
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katz, that’s EXACTLY the reaction I got from my bff’s mum (who’s a lovely person). She said I had a “timid palate”. I told her that I’m not a masochist, I don’t associate pain with pleasure, and hot food HURTS. I think it finally got through. I think people who’ve grown up eating hot food might be inclined to forget you do need to become accustomed to it, for one thing, and for another, it’s like Some Gal said: people have different tastes, and wtf is wrong with that?
Cassandra LOL I could end up eating a lot of rice. Or we could get takeaway from different places!
The solution might be Vietnamese food, since it tends to be more of an add-heat-yourself kind of thing. Have you ever had a banh mi? It’s my favorite kind of sandwich.
LBT, well done! Love that sample page (the flautist and the rude twit).
Bahn mi. I can type good, honest.
http://battleofthebanhmi.com/wp-content/uploads/battle/banh-mi-article-079.jpg
LBT: Woo!
Kitteh: As you may know, there is actually a physical acclimation that happens with capsaicin: You’re not just unused to the flavor, it actually physically is hotter to you than to someone who eats it all the time! It would be just as valid (and just as silly) to tell someone who likes spicy food that it’s dulled zir palate so that zie can’t make out flavors that don’t include tons of spice.
It’s years since I had Vietnamese food … interesting that it is DIY heat, that’s good to know! I’ve quite enjoyed Japanese food the few times I’ve had it, too.
katz, yes, that’s just what I meant with being accustomed to it. Though I have descended to the “dulled your palate” line in self-defence on occasion. 😛
I am quite happy to eat Japanese food any time, and that tends to be an add heat only if you want it thing too, so there we go! Many Japanese people share your dislike of very hot food, so you’re unlikely to be served anything you can’t eat.
Which is kind of ironic in that wasabi has a rather, um, unique ability to make newbies feel like their brain is coming out of their nose. My Dad says that on his first business trips there people would try to get him to eat big lumps of it just to see the reaction.
There used to be a bahn mi place near me and my favorite thing about the menu is that for $2 extra you could get head cheese added to any sandwich.
I used to like spicy food more, but now it doesn’t always agree with me. The (pretty insignificant) agony of heartburn! I still eat it, but only if I have antacid at hand. But I do like Vietnamese, because like CassandraSaid the heat is adjustable.
Yay, LBT. It looks great!
Man, we’ve been slugging through the bowels of wordpress for over five hours today. So relieved to have it up and updating now. Whew!
And yeah, not much tolerance for spicy food myself. Then again, I seem to burn my tongue easier than, say, my ma who can drink tea that burns me. Still can’t figure out how she could do that.
Just remember to tell the person making your bahn mi to leave out the jalapenos. The first time I had one of those sandwiches I bit into a thick piece of jalapeno thinking it was a perfectly innocent slice of green pepper. It was not.
Oh gods, yes, wasabi! Heard a few horror stories about that. I was more than a little baffled when a friend named her cat Wasabi. I was like, um, why are you calling him after Japanese Death To Sinuses sauce? Turned out she had no idea that’s what the word meant. She thought it was some wise sage.
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wisesageRelevant: this evening I went into a restaurant to get a sandwich. I asked for chicken on whole wheat bread with just lettuce. I got shit from both the guy who took my order and the woman who made the sandwich. The guy gave me a 2 minute lecture on what a freak I was for not liking mustard (I like brown mustard, not dijon, which is all they had, but I told him I just didn’t like mustard in the vain hope of cutting off the sermon). The woman asked me three times if I was sure I didn’t want her to put anything other than lettuce on the sandwich.
AND she made it on white bread. It’s three ingredients and she got so worked up over my lack of desire for condiments that she fucked up the bread.
This is why I end up eating fast food. Nobody in a Wendys gives me shit when I order a burger with nothing on it.
For some reason it hits the nose more than other hot things, not sure why. I love the stuff but, um, remember to bring tissues for afterwards?
Also LOL – Wasabi The Elder sits on a mountain ridge and advises people not to dunk their sushi in too much soy sauce lest they offend the chef.
I’m a bit like that – I mean, I can leave my tea till it’s way colder than my mum would drink. On the other hand I’m constantly burning my mouth with hot boiled spuds, cos I love ’em!
Mmm, bahn mi! If someone threw a Lee’s sandwich off a cliff, I would probably jump after it.
The mean thing to tell people about wasabi is that it’s a palate-cleansing green tea sorbet 🙂
drst – gods, isn’t it annoying when someone who’s just selling/serving the food has to tell you UR DOIN IT RONG? Had the lecture from a waiter once about how “Australians always want their steaks overcooked.” Mum and I were like, yeah, well, you think “overcooked” means “no longer twitching,” and we’re the ones a) paying and b) eating, so STFU and bring it.
We were politer than that, it was a long time ago, but yeah. Sort of thing, like yours, drst, where you end up wishing you’d just told ’em to get stuffed and got the food elsewhere.