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Over on the Men’s Rights subreddit, the neverending struggle against imaginary feminists continues apace. Today, one brand-new Redditor, a self-described former feminist, won himself several dozen upvotes from the regulars by bringing them a literally unbelievable tale of his adventures with a coven of slap-happy feminists.
I stopped calling myself a feminist a few years ago when I went to a meeting and was told “men are inly allowed in this safe space if they participate in a slap circle.”
The idea was that it would be harder for me to intimidate with my six foot stature if all the women had a chance to slap me in the face. I left.
Another guy actually did it.
It’s all true. I WAS THAT GUY.
BUT WHO WAS PHONE?
Actually, no. If this dude’s story is true, I will literally eat my cats.
While most of the Men’s Rightsers commenting in the thread seem to have swallowed this story whole, “slap circles” aren’t actually a thing in feminism.
They are a thing, though, amongst bored and/or drunk young men (and sometimes women) around the world, as countless videos on YouTube can attest.
As as site called Hungry Teen explains, a “Slap Circle” is
A great way to bond with friends, release aggression and stimulate the face. The Slap Circle is a game made for the more hardcore, daring person and can be used as a test for finding the manliest of the group. Although adopting female fighting techniques, the slap circle appeals far more to men. Nothing is required for this game, other than a hand, a face and a set of balls.
All you do, is stand in a circle and slap the person to your right in the face, while waiting for a slap from the person on your left. If you’ve had enough, you step out of the circle and the last two standing fight it out for the winner.
I eagerly await stories in the Men’s Rights subreddit detailing Andrea Dworkin’s demand that all men and boys be forced to take the Cinnamon Challenge and all those insidious mandatory nut shot seminars being forced upon all college students unfortunate enough to be born with a pair of balls.
Thanks to Cloudiah for the heads up, and the good people of the AgainstMensRights subreddit for the Hungry Teen quote.
Marie
Competitive medical school is how they put together the people who can save your life; if you would really prefer to die then that is entirely your free choice. May I suggest that you insist that your medical notes clearly state ‘Not for Resuscitation’ to clearly reflect your wishes. Organ transplant unit’s will thank uou.
On the other hand, you do not have the right to insist that everybody else should lose their lives because of your beliefs, and yet you see no moral conflict in it.
I really don’t understand rhat.
@stevie
okay, I officially have no idea what you’re on about.
Kittehserf
I’d just tlike to express deep envy!
Just a reminder that I already called “acting like a troll for 500, Bob” in the other thread. Wasn’t expecting it to get to the “if you’d really prefer to die” stage, though.
(Also, sorry, everyone who isn’t Stevie. I think my refusing to tolerate the whole false-rape-accusations-are-to-blame-for-how-hard-it-is-to-get-rape-convictions thing may have been what set her off.)
Stevie, please chill on the home-school v. public v. private school stuff.
There are awful parents who keep their kids from living up to their full educational potential by ‘homeschooling’ without the ‘schooling’.
There are awful parents who punt their kids to the bus-stop and never actually ‘check in’ to figure out how their kid is coping with public school, who don’t even bother looking at grades or wonder why their kid had to take the written part of the high school graduation qualifying exam six times in order to pass.
There are wonderful parents, who raise well-educated, well-adjusted kidlets, in every educational system.
A little biased, because the P.h.D is a home-school advocate (and he doesn’t cite nearly as well as you’d expect a P.h.D would) but is a good site to explore if you’re doubting that most homeschoolers do quite well. (Hint: most of them do pretty well.)
http://www.nheri.org/research/research-facts-on-homeschooling.html
yeah that whole “organ units will thank you” plus “okay you can die” is suuuuuuuuuper duper duper creepy i am like maximum skeeved out. s
I think Stevie’s argument is that we must ban homeschoolers from becoming doctors or else we’ll all die.
I’ve got nothing.
@cassandra
*envy of your great troll detector*
I think I kind of found the logic? Me saying getting into medical school shouldn’t be a messure of human worth somehow means I don’t want doctors to save me? Or something. I’ll see if Stevie actually explains -_-
Oh, and oddly enough, the only person I know in meat-space that got into med school on the first try was homeschooled for high school. They were also totally brilliant, so that might have something to do with it.
Homeschooling = slow, lingering suicide via depriving modern medicine of staff? Yah, no. Cassandrakitty called it. Again.
I personally would prefer that both Marie and Fade keep their organs where they belong for as long as possible. You’d think this would be an uncontroversial position.
@cassandra
I second the notion! 😀
^cuz I like my organs.
i like my organs. i’m 99% sure they all work. even if they don’t feel like it most of the time XD
(in case need joke explained i have chronic pain. blah it always sucks to explain the joke)
Personally I know I base the self worth of others on their ability to get into medical school. Everyone KNOWS if you don’t get into medical school, you’re some trailer park hick /SARCASM
You know another great trait in a doctor? Not being judgmental.
I only know one person who was homeschooled for high school. I met him when he was a student at Stanford, and he’s a tech executive now, so I’m pretty sure the experience didn’t cause him any lasting harm.
re: schooling
Yeah, and I was ‘homeschooled’ loosely last couple years of school and am not pursuing higher education and am probably going to end up with a lower paying job is that a problem for Stevie?
You know another great trait in a doctor? Not being judgmental.
THIS!
@katz
^reasons I ditched my last doctor 😛 The new one rocks, so far, though. 😀
Woah. This’ll be my one and only comment on this, but um, realistically? In the hospital? Your life’s more in the hands of the front-line staff (i.e., nurses and aides) rather than those who have gone through med school. Most RN’s have associates degrees, and all nurses aides are required to have is a high school diploma or equivalent. We’re the ones who are there, monitoring patients. We’re the ones who are the first to notice when someone’s going downhill. The docs normally spend about five to ten minutes with patients.
Frankly, working with docs and aides? There are some aides I would trust with my life far more readily than some of the docs. So no, how many letters you have after your name or how much schooling you have under your belt is not a measure of human worth, just like Marie said.
Higher education like med school is expensive and not everyone has the luxury to be able to afford it. That doesn’t mean that those who can’t afford it are “stupid.” Or worthless. Or talentless.
Please stop digging, Stevie. Please.
Organs, Marie. Apparently we’re harvesting yours.
Katz is brilliant.
That was Katz’s statement.
Blockquote formatted weird. Or I might have accidentally italicized. I’m a little out of it.
@cassandra
lol wouldn’t want to disappoint the organ transplant unit. Or Stevie.