So @catches_stars on Twitter is pretty hilarious. She’s also got an OkCupid account, and regularly posts snippets of her conversations with some of the more problematic dudes who contact her, some on her main Twitter account and some on @okcupid_TXT. With her permission, and because I’m too lazy to actually write a post today, I’m passing along a few of my favorites.
This overeager fellow has a rather sudden change of heart when his stated plan runs into an obstacle, that obstacle being that @catches_stars finds him completely repulsive.
This guy is either totally high or trying some weird and misguided PUA wizardry on her. (It does not succeed.)
This foot-obsessed fellow spammed her with the same message from several different accounts.
This guy, who seems to be shirtless in his profile pic, gets what I assume is, to him, a very disappointing answer.
As does this fellow.
Romance is hard.
There are no failures at being geeks. To want to be a geek is to be one 🙂
@Creative Writing Student
You haven’t, but I understand that isn’t really the point. I am so sorry and I hope you feel better. Night!
Aw, the little man’s mask just slipped. Whoopsie.
Let us now bask in the irony of Martyn claiming someone other than him is making assumptions.
@Kitteh:
That was a response to the number of personal attacks with zero merit put out by hellkell. If you believe any of what I said has been misogynistic then please, show me where and point out why.
@Katz:
Sorry, did try to add a picture, but for some reason embedding just failed O_o
I’m not ignoring you, I promise.
You are a totally righteous geek, CWS! Sleep well!
Did Martyn just tell hellkell to fuck off? Like, does he think he has that power here? I was enjoying the troll beatdown you all were giving him, but now I’m just confused. Is he aware that if David came flying in with the ban hammer right now it would not be aimed at hellkell?
hellkell – lol, you got the troll. ::high five::
Making assumptions is NOT itself practical.
(I don’t care if no one plays with me, it is still cracking me up.)
@hellkell:
Hah! Says the one who makes personal attacks without being able to justify a single assertion made.
katz, maybe we need to resurrect your peer-reviewed journal to try to get through to him?
cloudiah: Argh, that article. Another wanker going on about theory. They just don’t get it.
Some Gal, I’m glad you thought that was hilarious too.
Fuckwit misogynist troll – you want proof you’re misogynist? Engage brain and read all the shit you’ve posted here over the last couple of days, and the replies, and note especially how you ignore everything the readers here (mostly women) say, and how you double down even when you’re demonstrably wrong.
You’ve more than earned everything hellkell has said.
@Martyn
Hellkell has certainly justified the assertion that you need to fuck off.
Martyn; you’re a pathetic, pretentious, idiotic, troll. Justification? Every single comment you have made in this thread.
@Ranter: I just responded like with like. Nothing more, nothing less.
If you consider trolling to be discussing what is well documented rather than making personal attacks, then yeah hellkell is totally beating me down by “fuck”ing me “off”.
Otherwise, I felt it appropriate to respond with the same language (s)he used towards me without any real merit.
Marytn: did you forget how it works? You made the assertions when you barged in here, YOU get to back them up. That’s some 101 shit, son.
If he thinks I’ve been giving him personal attacks, the delicate flower hasn’t gotten around on the web much. I can think of a lot of sites that would have roasted and banned his tiresome self by now.
Trolling is itself practical, while misogyny is one of the sets of rules governing how people should troll, and that’s real, and now I have to make dinner.
hellkell doesn’t need to justify assertions. hellkell is a regular and knows wtf is going on.
You can sit there and calmly ask people to point shit out to you but they already have and you’re not listening. People are telling you to fuck off because you’re not here in good faith. They know you’re not here in good faith.
Do you?
@cloudiah
It is literally the best thing I’ve seen today. I loved your “set-up” too, but the cluelessness of the response was just so precious.
Aw man, I love when men come to tell women that we aren’t permitted to object to the treatment and abuse we’ve received until we’ve all sat down and had a nice, civil, objective discussion about the theory behind it. It’s almost as fun as when straight men tell queer women how free we are to explore our sexuality as teenagers in societies that only consider sex involving men to be “real” sex/forget we exist half the time.
(But seriously, I really dislike you.)
Not to mention all his “moderate”, “reasonable” MRAs. If he posted on their sites with stuff they didn’t like, he’d be getting all the homophobic slurs you could imagine. If he did a little experiment and posted with a female-identifying name, we know what level of threats he’d be getting.
Why do all the trolls quibble with our definition of troll like that will make us go “Oh! RIGHT! Troll does mean something slightly different than you are. I guess we love you now.”?
Viscaria: I wonder if Martin has sat down with black people and had a discussion about the theory of racism. There’s a chat I’d love to see.
Oh, and the “game = flirting”?
Maybe it’s just me, but if you need a goddamn script, you aren’t flirting.