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.
The more the merrier, Karalora. 🙂
Thank you, all! I wish there was a way to delete my accidental post though, lol.
Don’t worry about that, Quinn, just wait until the blockquote monster gets you. It gets everyone eventually.
Quinn — wrong thread for the comment gets us all sometimes (beware the blockquotes!) — better to just ignore it and move on or the trolls would delete things they want to pretend they never said because of goalpost shifting and gaslighting (this is also why there’s no edit button)
Kitteh — no problem, I knew such things exist but I just couldn’t own any.
This post has pretty much glued my palm to my face.
I understand. What exactly are blockquotes, though?
Quinn: Google is your friend.
Those, they work like this <blockquote>quote goes here</blockquote> — and sooner or later you will screw them up, the blockquote monster gets everyone eventually 🙂
As depressing as today’s post is, I would far rather these guys post these comments in public (and preferably on their Facebook or YouTube channel, complete with identifying information) than for it to go underground.
While I know the free/protected speech buttwads like this love so much to talk about (but only when it applies to their vented spleens, and not to people they don’t like) doesn’t apply in the way they interpret that phrase, there is one true positive: if any of their partners leave because of DV, there is a lovely internet history that supports their partner’s POV. Repeated postings helpfully establish that a consistent, negative behaviour pattern exists.
Darwinism in action, hopefully. 🙂
Xanthë: I see what you did there. 🙂
Xantë — if that was intentional, awesome, if not, simply amazing!
I really must learn to hit refresh!
Xanthe – love it! 😀
Encore (with a twist)
Now yer just showin’ off! 😀
OMG Xanthë is a wizard
How about we don’t hit ANYONE just because they’re arguing with us?
Of course that thought doesn’t occur to Redditors. I still can’t believe most of them are in their 30’s because they sound like a bunch of teenagers all the time.
Xanthë totally is a wizard. I bow to Xanthë.
Ahh, THOSE are
Oh well, that last one didn’t come off.
Lowquacks, that one made up of eleven blockquotes is quite pretty!
I like how the inverted-commas bit eventually doesn’t even sit in the same box as the text.
You realise the Blockquotes Monster will make you pay for all this teasing. It will bide its time, it’s in no hurry …