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.)
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!
Anyway, the pictures I don’t let through are worse.
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
We should have spoken to him in sacred terms, as is appropriate when women are addressing a man.
Fixed that for Paulie.
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.
@hellkell
Wouldn’t a narcoleptic conductor probably only derail the once?
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.
Not if it’s Amtrak. XD
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.
@ 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).
* physiological should be psychological -_-;
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.
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
Officially too lazy to try to make the vid embed.
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.
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.
^^ its own line ^^
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,.
Kittehserf your husband is quite handsome!
K I’m done being inappropriate now.
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.
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.
catgirl, calling Mr K handsome is never inappropriate! 😀
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.
Am I the only one who saw “FFXIV” and wondered “Who’s FF the Fourtheenth?”
Oooh, another FFXIV fan! I’d suggest we meet in game, but we’re probably on different servers anyway :/
Kittenserf,
Seconding catgirl.