So here’s an interesting chart. Guess what it represents?
A) The membership of the David Duke Fan Club
B) The racial breakdown of the most successful Liberace impersonators
C) The demographics of the Men’s Rights subreddit
Well, ok, that was too easy. It is of course all of the above. I’m guessing. It’s definitely C, at least, as this chart was prepared to show the results of the 2013 Men’s Rights subreddit demographic survey.
Now, you might say, well, isn’t Reddit itself a pretty white place? And you would be right. But the Men’s Rights subreddit seems to be a bit whiter — and a lot less black — than Reddit as a whole, if Quantcast’s estimates of Reddit’s overall ethnic breakdown are accurate.
In other completely non-surprising news, 89% of Men’s Rights Redditors are men. And a lot of them are libertarians. MRAs complain endlessly that we pigeonhole them as a bunch of entitled white dudes. They’re really not doing much to challenge that assumption.
The most important issue to these fellas (and the small minority that aren’t fellas)? Survey says: False rape accusations.
Other critical issues to the Men’s Rightsers include “custody rights” (which is a bit odd because 92% of those surveyed have no kids), “legal discrimination” (whatever that means), “education discrimination” (this is a thing?), and “male disposability.”
“Male birth control” and “paper abortion,” while relatively less important to the Men’s Rightsers, each got hundreds of votes.
I’m surprised “friendzoning” isn’t at the top of the list, but unfortunately it wasn’t one of the choices. I blame misandry.
RE: leftwingfox
Also, it’s just plain wrong. My grandfather was a pedophile, with a good few children. He didn’t need to molest anyone, and rapists don’t need to rape anyone. They CHOOSE to.
I wish Texas werecloser to Joplin then because that’d be awesome. I agree, the online store just makes it lose a lot of its charm. It’s fun to sit down with an Avon rep, trying samples, chatting, and shopping. And they do still have lipstick samples and the original bath oil, btw. It’s a classic and still very popular.
The MRA’s should love this. Avon is trying to get more men to become Avon salespeople, too, because they are underrepresented compared to Avon ladies. So for all their fuss about women getting jobs in predominantly male professions, some pink collar jobs are reaching out to men as well.
Thoughts on doing non-binary genders as a subset of a general non-binary response?
And wtf should I do about politics and religion? Just pull lists from wiki?
You could let politics and religion be generate-your-own-answer boxes and then comb over the data to get categories later. Not the most statistically rigorous way of going about it, but definitely the best way not to exclude anyone.
“Argenti, if you include “Hispanic” as a category, make sure it’s either “Hispanic/Latin@” or have a separate Latin@ option”
Done!
I’ll post the full list of ethnicity options in a minute, I’m editing it now 🙂
Perhaps this, with a text box for the specific sect entry?
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
Nepenthe, the survey engine doesn’t have that option 🙁
Nepenthe — not with the free version I can’t, or I totally would. I’m including “other” on everything though.
@leftwingfox
Uh, that corollary is not implied by OF’s statement.
I typed out a long series of logical implications, and then decided that my inner pedant didn’t need that much exercise. (But who am I kidding, my inner pedant isn’t inner at all. 🙂 )
leftwingfox — now that I can work with. Again, no fill-in boxes, but that should give me enough to do subsections for most sects.
Now, anyone got similar on politics? 🙂
Y’all remain awesomely useful btw.
Ok, I think I can distract from the idiot trolls for a few minutes. I was going to respond to a few things, but I think everyone else has done some pretty awesome take downs so I didn’t have to… Also, I can barely string two thoughts together and I need some internet hugs really badly… My best friend, really the only friend I have in the province had a heart attack the night before last and went in for open heart surgery today. I didn’t know about it until after it happened because I’m working in kind of a remote location and communication is spotty at best. I’m devestated and worried and I can’t get home for awhile and I’m just… There’s no words just anxiety and sadness, I’ve never been so scared in my life. He’s… everything to me. 🙁
A hearty dose of “fuck you” coming right up.
Someone mentioned the SRS survey before. Here’s the link:
http://www.reddit.com/r/ShitRedditSays/comments/nzipz/meta_srs_survey_results/
Key results: 58% male, which I believe is considerably lower than Reddit as a whole, though I’ve heard wildly different estimates of the % of men on Reddit. Obviously a lot less than r/mensrights.
79% white, 6 percentage points less than r/mr but still pretty high. Roughly in line — a little bit higher than — Reddit as a whole, if those Quantcast estimates are correct.
Argenti, as far as us filling it out, you’re likely to just get me, since I’m really the only Boobzer. Even then, it’d likely get complicated. (My vessel is white. I’m not, but considering my situation, it really does get to be purely a cosmetic difference, and due to my predecessors, my ethnicity is… complicated. Embarrassingly absurd.)
Nepenthe, I thought “A Man with Game doesn’t need to rape anyone.” very strongly implies that a man without Game does need to commit rape – and yeah, if he doesn’t choose either, he’s going to be a virgin.
Could we PLEASE ban this troll now?
Bad dog, I’m so sorry.
I can only offer Emergency Kittens
Quoting myself:
So I did point it out. I guess it was subtle. Or something.
Sorry, I just felt the need to reiterate that. Seeing as I can’t even really work up the wit and cheer to mock the notion that the principle reason to oppose rape is that, compared to other options for attaining an orgasm, it just isn’t that effective.
Think about that for a bit.
Let it rot your mind.
I’m going to go drink G&T’s now, and I won’t stop until I can literally speak technicolor and smell sounds.
@iinurashi. I just read your book. It was quite enjoyable. Thank you for making it public.
Bad_dog, ALL the hugs, and all the good thoughts for your friend recovering!
Bad_dog, I’m so sorry to hear that. Hugs if you want them, and here’s a picture of my older sister’s tabby and a little guest who stayed with at her house for a while: http://i.imgur.com/cdQ2484.jpg
It does indeed. I’m getting a strong abuser-logic vibe, claiming that you’re not going to harm her, but making sure she knows that you could if you wanted to.
Not only “could if you wanted to” (which given the usual physical differences between men and women, and the advantage an attacker has over their victim, is hardly news) but that you would if you wanted to, and the only thing preventing that is her complying while you … abuse and hurt her anyway.
Bad_dog, sending all my hugs and best wishes for your friend’s speedy and complete recovery.
Bad_dog — sending all the hugs your way, except the ones for your friend.
LBT — you want to just email me whatever you come up with and we can sort it out that way? You have my addy, feel free to use it!
Bad_dog: all the hugs to you and best wishes on a speedy recovery for your friend.
RE: Argenti
I actually lost your email. <.< Send it to me again?
Also, I finished my IS story! I need to fix up the cover and get it printed off. WOO!