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Some of the comments I don’t let through

How comments are moderated at Man Boobz.
How comments are moderated at Man Boobz.

So I had to re-ban a couple of long-banned trolls today, who had returned with new names and slightly different IP addresses but who gave themselves away with their behavior. And that got me thinking about the people — well, the MRAs and PUAs and other such charming folks — who regularly denounce me as an evil censor of FREE SPEECH.

In fact, when I ban people, I do so for good reasons: one of the two trolls I banned today was a longtime MRAish commenter here who eventually creeped everyone out by boasting about having sex with underage prostitutes; the other was a man of many sockpuppets known for angry, abusive meltdowns full of slurs.

Anyway, so I thought I’d give you all a glimpse into my “trash” folder. Here’s a sampling of comments from would-be first time commenters at Man Boobz that I felt would not add anything to the discourse here. But in the interests of FREE SPEECH I thought I’d give these “ideas” an airing today.

TRIGGER WARNING for violent and offensive language. (Sorry about the quality of the last two; you can click on them to see larger versions.)

You people are such wankers. MGTOW is the best thing that ever happened. Personally, i despise women and would gladly see them all die horribly. This site is not only run bu a pathetic, wretched little scum, but populated by ones as well.Sad to say. But I see many good men get hurt by women. I feel not one drop of sympathy for any women who gets hurt, Beatin up or treated like shit. Cheers you dumb bitch.censored1censored2

Not all of the comments I trash are quite this awful. Some are only mildly violent or abusive. I tend to be a bit picky with people’s first comments, assuming that if someone posts a shitty first comment it’s not likely to get any better after that. There are a few banned commenters who stop by and try to post anyway, including one fellow who leaves endless comments trying to prove, as far as I can tell, that teenage girls are objectively hotter than women in their twenties and older.

And, of course, there are comments targeting individual women, whether these are giant cut-and-pasted rants about Anita Sarkeesian, vaguely threatening remarks aimed at other well-known internet feminists, or bizarre sexual comments about female MRAs from fans of theirs.

Once in a while I will get a comment from a feminist that resorts to violent language; I don’t let those comments through either.

And then there are the pictures people try to post in the comments. Below, one of the ones I actually let through, depicting me in a dress with some extremely tall dude. A quick Google image search reveals that it was originally posted online by regular A Voice for Men contributor Janet Bloomfield, in a blog post of hers from last year on Disney princesses. Stay classy, Men’s “Human Rights” Movement!

I don't actually own a dress like this.
I don’t actually own a dress like this.

Anyway, the pictures I don’t let through are worse.

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cloudiah
10 years ago

Well, hellkell just called him a creep, which we know is the height of profane misandry. You can always count on hellkell for that! XD

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

We should have spoken to him in sacred terms, as is appropriate when women are addressing a man.

titianblue
titianblue
10 years ago

what happened at MGTOW Forums AVfM, which amounted to one rolling “cunts and whores” diatribe after another, spiced only with vicious attacks on men who were deemed less than worthy by Nacho Vidal’s Paul Ealm’s standards.

Fixed that for Paulie.

weirwoodtreehugger
10 years ago

Non conformist? What a cute little euphemism for troll. Sadly, misogyny is the norm. Sam is a conformist in much of the internet and he has a sad fee fee because this is one of the few safe spaces where misogyny is not welcome. Sorry if I don’t tears to spare for you Sam. Oh wait. Not sorry at all.

Viscaria
Viscaria
10 years ago

@hellkell

Wouldn’t a narcoleptic conductor probably only derail the once?

LBT
LBT
10 years ago

If conforming involves peer pressure to conform to the social norm of not raping children, then yes, I am totally happy with this conformist dictate of society.

RE: fromafar2013

It correlates higher rates of divorce with higher rates of rape, surprise, surprise.

I certainly hope it doesn’t try to guess causation. Because uh. Yes. If your partner is more likely to rape you, I imagine that yes, you are more likely to divorce your partner. I feel like they got the horse behind the cart here. And “coercive sex” is such a GROSS little euphemism.

hellkell
hellkell
10 years ago

Wouldn’t a narcoleptic conductor probably only derail the once?

Not if it’s Amtrak. XD

LBT
LBT
10 years ago

Also, we’ve HAD “nonconformists” here. Plenty. NWO. Pell. Tom Martin.

Seriously. It’s not that hard to find them here. They got run off because they made such horrendous claims that they ceased to be entertaining. You, Sam, are not that entertaining.

fromafar2013
10 years ago

@ LBT

Yeah, thankfully the authors seemed fully aware of the tendency for people to read too much into these things and made no attempts at causation outside of evolutionary biology (ie: here’s why the traits are able to persist in the gene pool). And I agree, “coercive sex” made me cringe too. They even divide it further into physiological and physical methods in one chart. Blech. But that’s why I posted that second part, because MRAs et al. tend to do exactly what the authors themselves warn against; explanation =/= justification (or even causation, especially since culture is a thing).

fromafar2013
10 years ago

* physiological should be psychological -_-;

LBT
LBT
10 years ago

RE: fromafar2013

Aaaaand that’s EXACTLY what Atomic Wheelchair did above. If the authors inhabited graves, I’m sure they’d be spinning at 5000rpm about now.

AIT
AIT
10 years ago

LBT:

I get a similar image of James Madison when someone blurts something about FREE SPEECH or MAH FREEDOMS as a defense for spouting ignorant, bigoted shit.

I cannot find a relevant gif, so instead, I give you an adorable video I found of a cat rolling around trying to catch a bell.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B_n_5ei8Ts&w=560&h=315%5D

AIT
AIT
10 years ago

Officially too lazy to try to make the vid embed.

LBT
LBT
10 years ago

Oh, here’s something David might be interested in: the SFWA has exploded. Again.

I used to aspire to join the SFWA, but I have found myself less and less impressed with them as I’ve learned of their bullshittery.

cloudiah
10 years ago

AIT, you can just paste the YT url on it’s own line. Some things to watch out for:

Use the regular URL that starts with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=______
Don’t use the shorter one you get from the Share tab (i.e. youtu.be/___)
You can’t add to the URL to make it start at a certain spot.
Make sure it isn’t https

Even with all that, it won’t always embed properly because that would make too much sense.

cloudiah
10 years ago

^^ its own line ^^

Michael Kelly Miecielica

I’m pretty sure the picture is meant to be David as Belle and the Beast from the Beauty and the beast. :Captain Obvious: Sorry if this has already been pointed out,.

catgirl
catgirl
10 years ago

Kittehserf your husband is quite handsome!

K I’m done being inappropriate now.

theladyzombie
10 years ago

I’ve been under the impression that the SFWA has been making progress towards eliminating the bullshittery out of their organization and they seem to be more conscious of problematic elements than a lot of other orgs. Jim Hines, John Scalzi, and Chuck Wendig I know have each written extensively on it.

opium4themasses
10 years ago

Oh damn. An MGTOW site run by Mrhappy. I hope that is not the same guy who makes FFXIV videos I watch. I have to find this out.

kittehserf
10 years ago

catgirl, calling Mr K handsome is never inappropriate! 😀

grumpycatisagirl
10 years ago

OK, I’ve only just skimmed the end of this thread and the Sam stuff is . . . whatever . . .but did I read that right: no more MTGOW Forums on the Internet? If so,yay, Internet. I’ll drink some bubbly in your honor.

kittehserf
10 years ago

Am I the only one who saw “FFXIV” and wondered “Who’s FF the Fourtheenth?”

FromAfar
10 years ago

Oooh, another FFXIV fan! I’d suggest we meet in game, but we’re probably on different servers anyway :/

leatapp
leatapp
10 years ago

Kittenserf,
Seconding catgirl.

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