Today, another lesson in how to get yourself hundreds of upvotes on Reddit.
It’s really quite simple.
1) Go to the Ask Reddit subreddit. Find the post asking Redditors if they’ve ever “tried a crazy urban-dictionary sex move? (e.g. Alaskan Pipeline, Komodo Dragon, Donkey Punch, etc.) How did it turn out?”
2) Post a story about a hilarious little prank you (allegedly) pulled on a sex partner that instantly transformed consensual sex into violent rape.
3) Oh, and throw in a gratuitous racial slur while you’re at it.
4) Then whine about how your partner’s negative response to your (alleged) little rape prank gave you “blue balls” and complain that you might have to pay her damages for “emotional distress” in civil court (allegedly).
You might think that this might be a bit much even for the morally undeveloped manchildren (and occasional womanchildren) who populate Reddit. But guess what? The poster of the tale in question got literally hundreds more upvotes than downvotes for his whiny “confession.”
Here’s the screenshot to prove it. (I’ve partically obscured the racial slur; click on image to see full-sized version.)
There were, of course, those who reacted like normal human beings to Mr. Dick Pic’s story. (I’ve obscured the homophobic slur that made up the entirely of his reply.)
Mr. Dick Pic was so offended that anyone was offended by his shitty (alleged) behavior that he rage-quit the thread, deleting his comment and — living up to his name — leaving only a dick pic in its place.
Now, Mr. Dick Pic may just be trolling, and I really hope that’s all there is to his terrible story, but his ridiculously pissy behavior after he got called out makes me think that his story, or at least parts of it, may actually be true.
Just another day on Reddit, the internet’s largest and most influential asshat aggregator.
Thanks to an anonymous Reddit informant for the heads-up, and the screenshots.
Yeah, PEMRA’s too stupid to know that MRAs and their brand of ignorance has been around well before SRS. What a tool.
Ban him already.
Falconer: he’s not French?
Shorter PEMRA: “If you discount the most prevalent form of violence in our society, which is extremely gendered towards women, men are victimized more often!”
Just to counter that last article on France
This is the UK 🙁
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/09/muslim-helpline-faith-attacks-women
So sorry if it seems like I was saying France is alone in it’s Islamophobia, just saying white men are not the oppressed there, sorry France 🙁
PEMRA is also a former weightlifter, I think. Do we know he’s balding? I don’t like hating on balding dudes. Can I hate on neckbeards here, though? He probably has a neckbeard. And is really resentful about being circumcised. Just a guess?
@bahumbugi, not hating on bald guys, just something PEMRA kept banging on about the other night.
‘White men are so oppressed, men lose their hair you know, I worry every day, I’m not balding though, oh the hardship society invokes on men who lose their hair, wah, wah, wah’ (paraphrasing)
You are so right, Mr Ms losing his hair, as I’ve said before, he’s yummy, lovely fuzzy, fuzzy headed Hubbie 🙂
After Patrick Stewart in Star Trek TNG, guys really can’t use the “Women don’t like bald men” excuse anymore.
Granted, I don’t particularly like losing mine. I cringe a bit every time I see the back of my head after a haircut. But that’s my own issues at play.
PEMRA:
Yes, when talking about militarized violence (the sort most often found in video games), I concur, it’s mostly directed at men in the real world. Of course, it’s also almost exclusively men doing the violence, and ordering the violence, and benefiting from the violence. And furthermore, it’s mostly minorities who are targeted by that violence, not white men. Europeans and Americans tend to have to go to other countries with hostile intent in order to get shot at on a casual basis (and even then, a disproportionate number of front-line soldiers are PoC).
And you might want to go back and read the discussion that you linked to–it specifically noted that zombie games were already the exception to the ‘no women mooks’ rule. It wasn’t talking about zombie-killing, it was talking about games where your targets are fictional, but ~living~ human opponents. The situations where someone goes in and kills a bunch of women, in the real world, are horribly ugly scenarios; evoking those scenarios by doing it in the game is, as noted, problematic at best. Targeting men, OTOH, evokes traditional battlefields, as you yourself are noting.
Considering that a ton of FPS games are war-related, it would be weird to be shooting at primarily women; what, do you want to have missions that revolve entirely around wiping out unarmed civilians? What could be objectionable about that? 9_9
@leftwingfox: You so silly! Balding? Your entire body is covered in orange fur! 😀
So leftwingfox is a sphynx fox?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/oct/04/bald-men-dominant-image
Seriously, I have to fight women off my fella, more than I ever did when he had long hair.
Personally, I would prefer random generic enemies (soldiers, etc) to be more mixed gendered. And mixed race while we’re at it. I probably wouldn’t play a game were you mainly fight women, unless it’s something like a women-only world or something. Same thing for movies. I think this kind of media shape more our general belief of what war, and history in general, looks like. Therefore, it would maybe remove a bit of the idea “all war and battles were and are (or should be) fought by men”
That told, I can perfectly understand a woman saying that she would be uncomfortable by that, because to them it evokes real life violence against women.
@mouse, sorry, meant to say hello earlier, you getting over your nerves?
mmmmmmm chippies 🙂
Nope, he just has poor English grammar and plays it off by claiming to be French.
A couple days ago he welcomed someone who also claimed to be French by saying it was nice to see another “representative of the country of cheese and surrendering*” on the comments here. I think he’s a Yankee.
*This is what passes for humor in a country that’s never been invaded. Of course, generally our right-wingers’ attempts at humor are pretty bad.
Hi all! I was playing Elder Scrolls 4 — Morrowind (the whole series sucks as far as race is concerned), and only occasionally had female soldiers and dark brotherhood members. Although they did show up as named or plot characters. I found a few mods that brought it closer to equal, the lore-books implied they were gender integrated.
Surely game designers are looking a mod communities to see what people want. And yet, we still have these issues.
Also, I wanted to let you know you can call me t7g if you are responding to me. I panicked and picked a long nym when it came to sign up.
Mind you, sometimes he claims to be a French citizen of Algerian descent.
Why he’s doing all this pretending, I cannot say.
I’d be all for shooting at (and by) a more diverse population. But if the player character is always going to be a white dude-bro I want his enemies to be the same.
I really like the trend of letting you choose gender for the main character. It also usually means that the plot isn’t as repetitive. Saving your true love princess as a motivator doesn’t work as well unless they are accepting of homosexual love.
@Ophelia. Hey! Feeling quite relaxed now, thanks 😀 What about yourself? Still apologizing for every post I make, but I’ve stopped scrutinizing every little word. Progress! 😛
On video games:
Did anyone else find it slightly racist that the Redguards had the lowest intelligence in the game? Or am I missing something?
Hi, t7g. Morrowind is Elder Scrolls 3. Elder Scrolls 4 is Oblivion. Morrowind is also over 10 years old.
Although it looks like the creators made a conscious effort to keep the Imperial Legion mostly male in Skyrim (there’s one female soldier), I have noticed a whole lot of women in other factions in the game. There are several female followers and the numbers of female Forsworn are almost equal (but admittedly not quite).
@Ophelia Also, friend and I were having a hard time figuring where to go for a meal tonight. But now that you mention it…There is this lovely fish and chip restaurant near by…
@left wing fox
*fistbump of balding anxiety solidarity*
Although for me it’s usually more because people love to keep bringing it up 😛
@Mouse: The Redguard are as smart as the Nords and the male Orcs. Granted, they’re all tied for dumbest. Intelligence in Morrowind controls three magical skills and Security (which is lockpicking), and directly controls the number of magic points you have. I think Intelligence was assigned primarily with an eye towards function — which of these races is going to be the least magical?
There aren’t any attributes in Skyrim.
@t7g — I hope it’s more than a trend at this point. I like getting to choose.
I get a small sense of glee out of wondering how many dudebros got a glimpse of Chell while playing Portal and freaked out about cooties.
@Falconer Ahhh, cheers for the information! 🙂 Been a while since I played it, and I was much more of ‘dive into the action’ kind of player. I didn’t take in much else besides the quests and the action.
@Mouse
You’re awesome, I love your posts 🙂
Ditto on the scrutinising, I’ve managed to offend all balding men (inc. my fella) and the entire country of France so far this afternoon, next stop, kick puppies. 😉
Internet commenting is hard 🙁