[TRIGGER WARNING: Discussion of rape, violent misogyny]
Today, the easy winner in my informal “Worst Thing I Saw On The Internet” contest is a horrendous little hangout for dudes with a very particular sexual fetish: they like to fantasize about raping and sexually humiliating feminists.
The Breaking Feminist Superheroines subreddit (r/breakfeminazis), with 865 subscribers, describes itself as
A Fantasy BDSM Subreddit devoted to a Supervillian who enslaves, degrades, and humiliates Feminist Superheroines to teach them their place as women
Some of these “feminist superheroines” are mentioned by name. The top two posts in the subreddit right now link to badly photoshopped fake porn pics of Anita Sarkeesian.
Another of the top posts is a story in which a TV news anchor named “Rachel” – presumably Rachel Maddow – is cavity-searched against her will by a Sherriff.
Most of the other “superheroines” remain anonymous, probably because the bulk of posts in the subreddit consist of BDSM fetish porn repurposed into antifeminist fetish porn through the use of lurid headlines:
The Feminist political prisoner is awakened from her sleep to be dragged by her hair to her daily fucking by MRA prison guards
Ex-Husbands line up to apply a paddling to the ass of the Feminist Divorce Attorney who had ruined their marriages
The Misogynist Activist gloats as he enjoys the abundant company of the sex he despises and has brought so much misery to
Clearly, the fantasies described and depicted in the subreddit aren’t only sexual; they’re derived, in large part, from the political and social fantasies of Men’s Rights Activists and other manosphere misogynists.
This is hardly surprising, considering the people behind the subreddit. One of the subreddit’s mods, and its most active contributor, seems to consider himself an MRA. He calls himself mravidz, which I can only assume is short for MRA vids, and his submissions often feature MRAs enjoying their new supremacy over women – including one in which an MRA, after a lifetime “struggl[ing] against militant Feminism [had] achieved total victory, [with] former Radical activists serv[ing] obediently as foot-rests.”
The other mod, oxymuncha, is the founder of TumblrInAction (an anti-”Social Justice Warrior” subreddit with 137,000 subscribers) and mods four other TumblrInAction spinoff subs. He’s also a mod of KotakuInAction (the largest pro-GamerGate hangout on Reddit) and the Gor subreddit (a porn subreddit inspired by an infamous series of male supremacist SF novels).
Indeed, the central fantasy underlying the subreddit – a postapocalyptic utopia in which men reassert their dominance and control over their former feminist rulers and women in general – has long been a favorite topic of discussion amongst Men’s Righsters and Red Pillers. There’s a certain kind of MRA who gets as excited as any doomsday prepper when talk turns to what many MRAs see as the impending apocalypse – when society collapses and women are forced to come begging back to men for protection and guidance.
“Men will notice a decided shift in women’s once hostile attitude towards them,” the MRA message board regular Keyster wrote in the comments on The Spearhead.
They will be actively engaged in seeking out male protectors and openly using sexual allure to attract them as mates. Men are so much better at defending themselves from bad guys, so you’ll want one with you if you’re a woman.
The Breaking Feminist Superheroines subreddit turns this rather widespread MRA fantasy into an explicitly sexualized vision of male (MRA) supremacy and female (feminist) submission, and adds some science-fictiony overtones to it all.
The subreddit’s sidebar spells out the basic narrative:
A Historical Chronicle of the Gender Civil Wars, in which Radical Feminists finally push Men too far, leading to a hot War of the Sexes in which the forces of the Feminist Menace are smashed in battle. What would a hypothetically constructed world in which Feminism has been decisively defeated, and women have been returned to their natural condition as Slaves look like?
Apparently for some of the contributors it looks a lot like a world in which Anita Sarkeesian’s face has been badly photoshopped onto porn pictures.
But others on the subreddit are a little more, er, imaginative. In a post titled “How would you tame a Feminist Leader you captured in the Gender Civil Wars?,” a contributor who calls himself femshit asks for advice in coming up with fantasy scenarios.
Suppose the Gender Polarization continues along current lines into a full blown Gender Civil War, a hot war of the sexes. Males are sick of emasculation and revolt against Feminist Totalitarianism and their mangina white knight allies.
Males quickly establish tactical supremacy. And the only advantage females have, is that MRA forces use rubber bullets, so they can capture Feminist POWs and transform them into cuntslaves.
MRA forces capture the Feminist Senate Hall of the Herpublic. And you are assigned one of the captured Feminist Senators as a War Prize. What steps do you take to break her in and teach her to accept her gender inferiority?
She is totally at your mercy, but still spouting tumblr SJW about gender equality and how her spirit will never be broken.
what are some ways to humiliate and degrade her feminist ideals of equality? how do you show her just how weak her soft feminine body really is?
how do you get her to learn the inherent inferiority of her cunt sex?
A commenter called cuntamer responds:
As a leader she’ll need to be held accountable for her crimes against men during the war. She should be put on trial in the local stadium and made a spectacle of as any man with a grievance comes forward and testifies against her. After all the intimate and humiliating details of her life are read aloud as evidence, and testimony is over, she will be sentenced appropriately for her infractions. The trial will conclude with a ceremonial stripping and burning of her and her colleagues clothing and worldly possessions as they are led off in chains.
I’ll spare you the elaborate rape fantasy that follows.
While most of the “stories” in the subreddit consist of little more than elaborate headlines, there’s a separate BreakFeminaziFavs Tumblr blog [NSFW] in which some of the fantasies are developed in more detail.
In one vignette, a new widow is turned over to “the bloodsucking loanshark who had driven her husband to suicide.” When she resists,
He handed to her the MRA Civil Code and to her horror it was all true. She would not even be given the mercy of attending her own husband’s funeral. Instead she was to be taken away immediately to become the fuck-slave of her husband’s worst enemy. Her black mourning lingerie just aroused the beast more.
In another, a former Feminist assassin becomes a pregnant slave to a mansplaining master with a fetish for Evo Psych:
For him the ideological victory over Feminist Science was more important than petty abuse.
He lectured the Feminist Ideologue like a little schoolgirl, on how her strange cravings were easily explained by Evolutionary Psychology. How Cavemen would slaughter entire tribes and take the women as booty. Women’s entire psychology was shaped to serve the children of their Master’s. Their taste buds were totally warped to protect their babies. … She no longer existed for herself but for his child. She was but a robot fulfilling the needs of the fetus.
Again and again in these little stories, “uppity” women are brought low by men they had oppressed or insulted. A “fallen” female CEO is subjected to spankings at the hands of her employees; a Feminist philosophy professor is humiliated by “Frat Bros [with] a more intrinsic understanding of the Ethics of Nietzsche”; a “Christian Fundamentalist Congresswoman” is raped and impregnated by the “Atheist Liberation Front.” An Occupy Wall Street protester is forced to serve drinks “for her Wall Street masters” wearing little more than a ball gag.
Paul Elam of A Voice for Men famously told one feminist that “the idea of fucking your shit up gives me an erection.”
Apparently he’s not the only MRA who feels that way.
::sporfle::
I’m active in the local BDSM community where I live. Actually, I’m on the board for the only BDSM club in the area with its own dungeon. Rapeplay is nothing new to me and I have plenty of friends who enjoy that particular brand of play.
Having said that, it’s really obvious from reading in forums on rape play that there is a group of “BDSM:ers” who have real difficulties in understandning that consent is necessary *before* a rapeplay can begin. How important negotiations are as a “no” suddenly isn’t thought of as a “no”. People who does not respect other peoples boundaries, who mixes up real rape and pretend rape.
There is a group of people that brings in disrespect and dim views of women in their writing about rape. I would hope they live in fantasyworlds, but I’m afraid that some of them have been doint real rapes and think of the rapeplay forums as an ok for their activities. That they are excused, they just “didn’t understand”, there was a “miss in communication”.
This group of people seems to be much. much larger regarding rapeplay than in other BDSM-activites such as spankings, bondage or whatever. Jokes about raping people to which they have no connection. It made me leave those forums as I couldn’t stand the way they were talking.
Misogyny disguised as BDSM is always depressing to see and they will be called out in any BDSM community worth its name.
Oh, and regarding Gore. I read the first book when I was younger, but didn’t do anything for me. However, one of my best friends was really in to the Gor-books and even did online RPG:ing in the Gor-world. She is by the way a woman, submissive (as am I) in BDSM context, so I don’t really have any problems with the Goreans as such. Your Kink Is Not My Kink But Your Kink Is OK.
The thing I reacted to in the text above was this with BDSM as a thing for punishing feminists. To push the uppity women down. That seemed to be hatred of women masqueraded as BDSM.
Well, these pathetic fantasies sure aren’t inspired by human rights and/or a love of computer games!
Journalistic integrity fer sure.
I know I’m a bit late, but I wanted to respond to the comments about “not being a prude.” My statement about not being into BDSM was not intended to claim that I’m not a prude. I wanted to include it so that anyone reading my comments would know that my knowledge of the subject is incomplete and that it and my opinions are not based on direct, personal experience. What I know of BDSM culture and practices mostly comes from friends who are into it.
This is exactly what I have been trying to say! I agree with what everyone is saying about consent, respect and context. Those three things are essential in BDSM and the guys in the OP definitely don’t care about consent or respect. They only care about the context as it relates to the fictional future they have created, mostly because the context they created makes this kind of behavior acceptable.
Nightraven, I’m glad your here. I didn’t see your comment until after my last post, but I was thinking that it would be great if we had someone involved in the BDSM community to weigh in on this.
Oh wow.
Here’s an arguably more realistic scenario:
In a not too distant future, legal sanctions against sexual harassment are harsher, same-sex marriage has been legalized in an increasing number of countries around the world, and Anita Sarkeesian’s series Tropes vs. Women has reached part 35: Why Polearms are Not (Merely) Phallic Symbols. MRAs (a fringe group that still believes that men everywhere are fed up with feminism) decide that “Social Marxism has GoNe too Far and It’s Time for ReaL MAnly Men to take OVeR….. ….. ……. ..”
Following the perceived success of their sockpuppet operations, #WhyWontYouBelieveUsWeReallyAreForJournalisticIntegrityYouGuiseGamerGaters have emboldened the manuresphere to believe that there really is an enormous number of people supporting the violent overthrow of so-called “feminist overlords”. After six months of meticulous planning and/or eating cheetos while fantazising about the sexual domination of public figures and throwing money at Paul Elam, they arm themselves with their decorative swords, don their trilbys, grab their paint guns and take to the street in a glorious resistance coup that would make Robin Hood shake his head in utter bafflement.
They manage to injure a few innocent civilians before a crowd forces them into retreat. While preparing to heroically fight the law, they realize that there are only 32 of them present in all. The police quickly rounds them up. They continue their lamentation in prison, convinced that the entire world, with the exception of them, is now in on the feminist conspiracy.
The rest of the world barely notices.
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Ahahaha. As if they’d ever leave their basements. I crack myself up sometimes.
Anyway, I can’t grasp what kind of a person would find this shit exciting. I mean, I can understand the thrill of both dominating sexually and being sexually dominated, I really do. I’ve tried both, and I’ve liked both. But… what is this? Who finds this kind of thing erotic?
Can the term “Rapeplay” not be used? There’s already enough issues around rape survivors not being believed, plus the vile use of the word by gamers to describe annihilating an opponent in a game, without it being bloody co-opted for an activity that bears no resemblance to rape at all.
Enacting a fantasy =/= rape
There is nothing consensual or playful about real rape.
In other news, I got some BS email from FB re my report:
Now going to find out how to delete my FB account. It was only on there for family to contact me, but I refuse to have anything to do with a company that continues to permit this level of harassment.
Just in case anyone else needs help with deleting a FB account, this works:
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-delete-your-facebook-account-for-good.html
Pallygirl: “Rapeplay” is just a word for an enacted rape fantasy. It has nothing to do with real rape. It is a commonly used term in the BDSM community for a negotiated scene in a consentual context.
I hope I didn’t give any other impression in my comment above.
Sure! We will learn how to view rape as play any effing second now! Women are just too effing sensitive about all these charming MRA fantasies. Once we learn that rape is play every thing will be effing sunshine and rainbows!
thebewilderness: What are you talking about? Rape is not play.
Your and the MRA fantasies are indestinguishable.
thebewilderness: Actually, you are quite wrong there. My fantasies are more about *me* being raped. Not anyone else.
I really don’t think it’s unreasonable to ask that people not use terms like rapeplay, which are BSDM-specific, on a blog that isn’t a BSDM space. Outside of the community lots of people find that term disturbing, and since this blog isn’t part of the community, why not just respect the request not to use it here?
@thebewilderness Have you ever considered that for those of us who have been raped, engaging in these activities might actually help?
cassandrakitty: No problem. I just wanted to make sure that no one misunderstood what I was trying to say.
Thank you! Just so you know, we’ve had a couple of major blowups recently, so I’m hoping this thread won’t turn into another one.
@cassandrakitty Although I lurk here fairly regularly, I must have missed the blow-ups. I didn’t realise. I’ll bow out for now in that case (I’m at work anyway!).
Oh, it’s been a mess. How have you been btw? Haven’t seen you comment in a while.
Oh yeah but I’m supposed to act all sweet and nice to guys, because not all men yadda yadda yadda. And I’m just supposed to automatically assume that some random dude on the street is not one of these pieces of shit? Fuck that. Sorry not sorry, men of the world. I assume that all of you think this way until you prove otherwise, and you usually fail. *shrug*
If BDSM is as lovely as you are saying, the reddit stories have nothing to do with BDSM. They sound nothing like erotica and everything like violent revenge fantasy. It would make as much sense for someone to share their hunting stories as their sex stories.
Here’s an idea: how about just not bringing BDSM into threads about violent, abusive MRA fantasies? The two are not related, one would hope, and it always leads to someone doing a huge TMI about their fantasy scenario, which is really inappropriate.