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.
Viscaria, that’s a classic Ruby move.
Someone says a terrible thing, pisses off all the regulars, refuses to acknowledge they did anything wrong, then they come back in one thread to post one comment not saying anything new and not addressing any of the regulars and they do so acting like nothing had ever happened.
It’s weird.
Seconding Viscaria.
On topic — they seem to be “simply” pissed that they can’t hit women without social disapproval. Not that hitting men is socially approved or anything…but apparently they think hitting women is extra bad, and that’s bad.
@whatabouttehmoonz, true, but Ruby was more flat-out evil. It reached a point where nothing she said would have been enough to earn my forgiveness, shirt of “I’ve just received a complete personality transplant.”
DL pisses me off, too, but Im seconding Viscaria on DL not being as bad as Ruby. Weirder than Ruby (we are like th Russian Mob, how?), but not as bad.
DL Colvin falls into the No Fucking Clue category, with a large helping of narcissism thrown in, unless of course it’s all just more halfwitted trolling for the lulz. Either way it says there’s an intelligence fail going on.
At this point, I wish David would just ban DL Colvin so I wouldn’t have to think about them. These Ruby types can be more grating than an Owly.
Reddit: consistently the toilet of the internet.
Re Ruby and DL: I am sure there are plenty of people in the world who think they care about social justice, but are woefully ignorant of how to behave in a social justice space. And who also get offended when they are told they are being awful because they have a self-concept of being a good person and they had good intent. And I don’t think it would even be that uncommon to not apologise and to continue commenting as innocuously as possible so as no to get in trouble again.
To get to the point, sometimes coincidences seem more compelling than they are. But we do seem to attract socks, so I can understand the suspicion.
Does this mean Man Boobz is the lair of the dreaded Sock-eating Monster?
Kim — oh, there’s certainly that, and I’m still willing to give DLColvin the benefit of the doubt and forgive, if anything resembling self awareness for ow ze fucked up actually occurs.
Ruby lost all hope of that when she dug in about prison rape being funny, and deserved, with repeated attempts to play GOTCHA with us like we were ever going to agree. They really aren’t in the same league.
Sock Eating Dryer Monster
Hey, welcome Quinn! (Scroll up.) Glad you’ve de-lurked. I am convinced there is this hidden layer of super-cool lurkers out there, and I want to encourage you all to come out and play with us. If you’re shy, start with animal videos. 😉
Oh, Argenti – apologies for the mix-up over what you meant by stuffed rats. I should have realised you meant soft toys and not real ones.
AetherSphinx’s post just sounds like, “Waaaah! Women are always feeling things! Why can’t they be low maitenance like a goldfish ?! I can’t even hit them if I want, ’cause society will persecute me! ME!!! Life’s soooo unfair!!!!”
He claims we all hate being treated nicely and we all hate being treated badly all in one breath. That we shouldn’t expect equality and civility at the same time because that’s somehow unfair…and we cry all the time. He’s probably the kind of guy who says repeatedly, “Man, I hate drama chicks,” because in fact, women probably have indeed lost their shit on him more than once — because he’s made it clear to them that he thinks women are frustrating vagina-havers that can’t just shut their mouths.
Hi, Quinn! I’m also glad you de-lurked! 🙂
Welcome, Quinn! 🙂
Hi Quinn!
Hi, Quinn! Lurkers are awasom.
Hi Quinn!
I’m not sure if this man is intentionally ignoring the long history (600 years+) of cosmetics, or if his ignorance is accidental. I’ve never heard of this prostitution nonsense. Someone should tell him about the eyeliner use in Mesopotamia and the Ancient Middle East (those evil Egyptians!). Lets also talk about the history of makeup use for skin protection in both hot and cold countries. Lets even talk about European men and women in the middle ages using makeup to appear pale. How about the growing trend of men using concealer for acne? And can he explain 80’s rock and visual kei, or are rock musicians just inherently evil?
I suppose MrWombat doesn’t know anyone with a dark complexion either. I’ve never seen my (black) boyfriend blush or become pale due to emotion. Even some white people do not blush, believe it or not. Have fun living in this world by those rules.
The purpose of war paint is to disinhibituate and look fierce. It is used to ‘pump one up’ and put one into a certain psychological state before going into battle. It’s on par with wearing a football jersey, not with wearing makeup, fool.
I’d find this post hilarious if this man wasn’t so sad. It seems that he lives in a warped world filled with terror where man eating vagina monsters are lurking behind every corner, and I pity him.
Hello, I accidentally posted on the wrong blog. This was intended for another post. I apologize.
Haha, @Quinn, I was like “what did I miss? Where is the make-up discussion?”
Do you want to drop us a link to the other thing you’re looking at?
Sure thing. It was another post in this blog I was reading simultaneously.
http://manboobz.com/2013/01/29/mgtower-wearing-makeup-turns-women-into-darth-vader/comment-page-6/#comment-253931
Oh. I forgot about a post that is less than a week old.
…Well then.
(Thanks for the reminder!)
I’ve been thinking I should try to participate more in the community here, so:
Welcome, Quinn! We love seeing more friendly faces around here!