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.
(Back in the day = 1989 and 1993.)
And yay for Lavvy!! ::is embarrassed to have forgotten to type that first::
I was born after or during the day then!
Lavender says hello to Man Boobz (or that he wants lowquacks-cuddles and kisses, anyway).
Aw, Lavender. He’s all “wtf are you doing to me, human”.
He’s so beautifuuuuuuuuul.
Hi, Lavvy!
I’m still awake and I want to point you to this hilarious comment:
Women should stop being so slutty about falling in toilets with the seats up! DON’T CALL ME A VICTIM BLAMER FOR SPEAKING THE TROOF.
Spreadsheet finished. The glamorous life of a librarian is … glamorous. Don’t hate me because I’m … glamorous.
But you’re so glamorous, cloudiah! envy envy envy
What on earth was that word salad about? I can’t make any connections there at all.
How recent are toilet seats anyway? Hard to have a fundamental difference based on something that probably popped up in the last 600 years or so and isn’t actually that widely used internationally.
I love how /r/mister’s idea of a victory is a stupid joke somebody made about toilet seats.
Heey!
As a lurker, and a very unfrequent commenter, I would like to participate on the survey.
Maybe I’m being an idiot. Where does one have to sign up?
Notice he’s yet another one who talks as if rape is just something that happens, like “preventing rape” is in the same category as taking an umbrella in case it rains. The fact that rape is an active, deliberate choice by one person (usually a man) to abuse someone else is something they don’t want mentioned, because that puts the onus on the perpertrator instead of the victim. Can’t have that, can we? Can’t undermine the story that rape is all about women preventing it, not men not doing it.
(I’m talking about male-on-female rape here as the most prevalent, and the sort that MRAs talk about and promote.)
Hi, Summer! Have you had your Welcome Package yet?
That’s not a silly question at all, I don’t know how we’ll get into the survey either. 🙂
I don’t think Argenti’s done writing the survey yet. When zie is, I think David will probably make a post about it.
Needs a Likert-type scale from “very much” to “very very very very very much” for “how much do you like cats?”.
I wonder if there’ll be questions for the furkids?
Your human:
1) feeds you adequately
2) is well trained
3) spends far too much time on that machine
etc
lowquacks – oh, YES! 🙂
Here something amusing for you guys: A 6-year-old wrote out this card for my kitten and was doing great until she got to the kitten’s name. (I pixelated out our names.)
Did she go to write “Violent” instead of Violet?
Could be a warning of Dangerous Cat Ahead! 😀
“Heey!
As a lurker, and a very unfrequent commenter, I would like to participate on the survey.
Maybe I’m being an idiot. Where does one have to sign up?”
Katz nailed that one.
And I am nearly done listing ALL THE FUCKING RELIGIONS and am currently feeling like I should be shot if I ever so much as suggest doing that again! Do you guys know how many religious subgroups there are?! And I’m not even trying to list all the schools of Islam or the individual Buddhist schools. I’m talking major sects and indigenous // aboriginal religions (which is actually not as bad as it sounds, because reporting on them sucks). Like, Christianity is probably the biggest, but least annoying to research (also, I have more than a basic level of knowledge on that one).
Down to just Judaism…and paganism. Why do I suspect I’m really going to hate myself before the night is over? Someone please send me good drugs.
So guys politics, give me a list or I’m resorting to wiki (which has actually been pretty good about filling in the gaps in world religions)
And w00t for Lavvy!
“Needs a Likert-type scale from “very much” to “very very very very very much” for “how much do you like cats?”.”
An easy fun one! Thank you!!!
And I’d guess toilet seats to be more like 150~ as flush toilets are Very Fucking New.
Politically the board seems to be mostly social democratic/green democratic/US liberal types with a smattering of anarchists (BlackBloc and me, at least) and other non-authoritarian socialists. We had one poster who was very keen on Maoism, too, but I forget who.
Social Democrat/US Liberal – Anarchist – Orthodox Marxist – Marxism-Leninism or MLM – Green movement – Democratic Socialist/other Socialist would probably cover most of the views of people here (maybe with the addition of Black Power/other racially nationalistic groups?). But if you want all the political orientations, that’d be a heap of work.
Social Conservatives, classical liberals, fascists, third position types, monarchists, theocrats, all sorts.
Argenti, here’s a great and powerful divine cat to give you strength.
lowquacks — I’m 178 religions deep at this point, a massive political list would almost be a relief (I wasn’t even remotely kidding about ALL THE FUCKING RELIGIONS)
At least I can save this if I ever need it again.
Social democrat
Green democrat
Other US liberal
Anarchist
Other non-authoritarian
Democratic Socialist
Other socialist
Maoist
Orthodox Marxist
Marxism-Leninism // MLM
Black Power
Other racially nationalist groups [expand]
Social Conservatives
Classical liberals
Fascists
third position types[?]
Monarchist
Theocrat
Keep ’em coming. Until you hit 100+ this is easier than religion!
Kitteh — thank you!