[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.
Because PENIS! And RAWR! That’s how.
(Yes, I realize this makes no damn sense. It isn’t supposed to. It’s Menz Rightz, after all.)
Ooooh don’t kink shame the MRAs! They’re just FANTASIES dontcha know! It’s their RIGHT to get off on rape, abuse, and humiliation!
It’s so nice to see the liberal scabs and WELFs recognising the fact that BDSM is a direct expression of misogyny when they suddenly find themselves at risk of violence because of it
Oh ho ho ho the irony
You can’t pick and choose and say “BDSM is ok IF…” because what these dudes are fantasising about IS BDSM. And a lot of other sick turds fantasise about rape. Can you not see now the way that BDSM a) excuses violent and misogynistic attitudes and b) sexualises them? BDSM is the literal fetishisation of male violence against women. This is so obvious it hurts my brain to think that people still don’t realise this…
Ugh, the sex-work argument in the other thread and the BSDM wonk in this thread? MAKE IT STOP!
Wonk is an excellent word, it needs to have a meaning made up for it.
It will never stop, as long as people feel obligated to make absolute statements about something controversial and see everyone with a different view as an idiot.
… So basically it will never stop. 🙁
Huh. I recently had dinner with a woman who is a domme. Not for money; it’s her kink. She gets together with various guys and dominates them in various ways. One of her regulars likes to get kicked in the balls. And she enjoys kicking him in the balls.They get together, she kicks him in the balls, and they both go their merry way. Not something I would enjoy, and I can only hope the guy is not doing any lasting damage to his balls, but they both apparently enjoy themselves and the whole thing is very much consensual. I have a little trouble seeing how this would be an example of the fetishization of male violence against women.
I’m just going to ignore the troll and ask: What’s “WELF” stand for? Haven’t heard that one before.
It’s North American slang for “someone who is obnoxiously obsessed with one really specific thing.”
I found exactly one random tumbler post that expanded it as “Women-Exclusionary Liberal Feminist.” Still no idea what it’s supposed to mean.
Women Excluding Liberal Feminist. I just learned it a few days ago.
I think peeps are reinventing the language out from under us with all these acronyms.
How does that even work… Is it a literal incarnation of this dude?
http://www.feministe.us/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/feminist.jpg
(source here if the image didn’t work out)
… Well that just makes the opposite of sense, doesn’t it. O_o Huh. Thanks, my Google-Fu failed me that time. ^^;
I’m with M, WELF makes absolutely no sense. It’s from tumblr, isn’t it.
Perfect! 😀
This is something I’ve struggled with because my own sexual fantasies are objectively pretty terrible. I won’t go into too much detail, but sadomasochism is only secondary to a whole host of other power, control, and yeah, even rape fantasies. Plus stuff that’s just plain *weird*. However, I’m really one of the most decent and kind people you might ever meet. I don’t want to call myself a nice guy because that’s become so loaded, but I genuinely try to help those around me, and when it comes to women’s issues I try to be a good ally and to understand women’s experiences as best I can.
This conflict used to really bother me. I had a hard time reconciling my compassionate, caregiving nature with my power and sadism fantasies. I was convinced that if I was *extra special good* and ignored my fantasies, they’d just go away and I might be as good a person on the inside as everyone said I was on the outside. It didn’t. IF anything, it made them stronger. I once talked to a female friend of mine who works as a rape counselor about a rape dream I’d had and I was almost in tears because of how it made me so aroused despite knowing how awful it was. She’s into BDSM and rapeplay herself, so she talked me through it and said that we really can’t control what arouses us, we can only control how we act on it.
It’strue, but people have trouble reconciling that. Some people just decide to ignore it, repressing their desire, but the irony is that the thrill of transgression makes it even stronger if you do that. Some people like me eventually come to terms with it, recognizing a healthy separation between fantasy and reality, maybe indulging in the bedroom a little, as long as it’s safe, sane, and consensual. There are still others who come to rationalize it, building justifications for why their kink is the Right Way, and the rest of the world is wrong, There’s a lot of that there: They decided that just because seeing strong women degraded gets them a little aroused, then degrading strong women is a good thing. And of course there are the opportunists, who may not even be that sexually into it, but realize that they can get what they don’t get in daily life by being dominant in bed and preying on the insecurities of sexual submissives (who, by nature of the game, are going to feel “dirty” about it).
“I get off on fantasising about raping people…..but I’m a really good person!!”
No, you’re not.
There is nothing in this that I haven’t read in BDSM “stories”, so you WELFs defending the violation of women through BDSM are hypocrites for having a problem with this. You support the rape and torture of women for the purpose of getting men off every day. You aren’t feminists, and you are exactly why women have lost so much ground. When feminism was strong and radical, women won. Now, with you WELFs running around promoting pomo bullshit and violence as sexy, we are moving backwards. You don’t have the guts for feminism.
At this point I don’t think anyone cares what you have to say, screamingasshole.
@booburry, I dunno, I’m tired of seeing BDSM content and rape fantasies in a thread where the OP is about misogynistic and sadistic rape fantasies about women. I don’t think this is a good thread for people to come into and talk about their rape/sadism fantasies.
Did we really need to know about your fantasies here, rmfishburne? Really?
Ninjaed by pallygirl! 😛