Well, you have to admire their ingenuity, I guess: The terrible people at the lady-hating megasite Return of Kings have figured out a way to blame feminism for … revenge porn.
No, really. Here’s the argument, such as it is, from regular RoK contributor Mark Webster:
What we are seeing with so called ”revenge porn” is an example of the disturbing but inevitable consequences of the first generation of women who, brainwashed by feminist propaganda, truly believe they can do no wrong, and that there are no consequences for their actions. …
Like so many other modern social problems, feminism is definitely to blame for “revenge porn.” This warped ideology has always irresponsibly promoted the delusional idea that women have all the same rights as men, but without responsibilities or consequences for their actions.
They were the ones who encouraged a life of reckless hedonism and narcissism for young women, with no thought for their futures. They were the ones who spun the gross lie that being pumped and dumped by men who couldn’t care less about them is “empowering.”
Webster pauses for a moment to reflect on the possible culpability of the ex-boyfriends who, you know, actually posted these pictures online as a form of petty revenge, but figures that, since the women chose to go out with these guys, it’s really still the women’s fault anyway.
Now admittedly putting them on the web for the whole world to see is a pretty low act, but they don’t call them bad boys for nothing. You can bet your bottom dollar these are the guys who are far more likely to receive and distribute “sexts” than the nice guys forever languishing in the friend zone.
Lovely.
Webster is right about one thing, though: the proliferation of revenge porn is very definitely related to the issue of consequences. That is, the almost complete lack of consequences faced by the dirtball guys who post these sometimes stolen, sometimes gifted pics online without permission.
But that has started to change. Let’s hope the 18-year-sentence meted out to revenge porn kingpin Kevin Bollaert — who combined internet-age skeeviness with some old-fashioned extortion — is a sign of things to come.
The readers of RoK have some rather different ideas about possible “solutions” to revenge porn.
(If you’re having a decent day, or would simply rather not read puerile fantasies about domestic violence and suicide, you may just want to stop reading here.)
As Black Poison Soul sees it, any woman who takes nude pics of herself should face these “consequences.”
1/ tattoo the word “slut” on her face
2/ put her into the local sluttery (aka free whorehouse)
3/ problem solvedPlus it semi-forces the red pill down men’s throats. I would think it’s hard to validate some whore when you constantly see “slut” every time you look at her face. Even if you’re a blue-pill white-knighting mangina enabler.
Remember. There is always a loser in the game of musical cocks.
Idonggor thinks the problem would be solved if American men were more willing to, well, punch “their” women.
As much as I dislike feminist bull dykes and other self entitled cunts, I also equally blame American men for acting like faggots. I hear many times even from so called “red pill” men that hitting women is wrong.
With that kind of mentality, you are bound to get a chick who will act out of her line.
In the Middle East and certain parts of Russia (where it is ruled by ALPHA MEN), girls would not dare to act like spoiled Americunts. Why?
Because they are scared of their men.
You need to get your women to be scared of you guys…. Have her fear you.
I used to feel sorry for American men for getting all the shit but you guys pretty much deserve it.
If you act like coward faggots, you are doomed to get your women acting like cunts.
BlueSkyGreyWolf, meanwhile, suggests that women who have their pics posted on the internet without their permission just kill themselves.
If the stupid cunts are so guilt ridden ain’t nothing stopping them from killing themselves. In fact, the more worthless female parasites who off themselves, the better off the woorld will be.
Something must be terribly wrong with the “red pills” these guys are taking; they seem to be turning everyone who pops one into literally the worst human beings on planet Earth.
What am I reading.
Whoa. These shining exemplars of humanity sure do know what’s what!
When I encounter such bullshit online (especially coming from RoK), things are wrong on so many levels that I fear having to explain why this is nonsense : I woudn’t know where to start
PUAs really want men to believe that trusting a man (especially concerning sex) has dire consequences for women and that’s as it should be.
Then in the next breath these shitlords say feminists hate men and complain that it is too hard for them to get women to consent to sex with them and that it should be easier for them to rape women and girls.
PUAs, we don’t hate men. We hate you. We hate you because you’re a cancer on society and your actions and attitudes hurt people.
The only message I’m getting from them loud and clear is that a society that produces men like these is fucked up and has to change on every level. The more they talk, the more I see the need for intersectional feminism.
Geez. Women are mostly decent enough to not post men’ s nude pics online. I don’ t endorse revenge revenge porn. But this goes back again to women who have to watch everything they do around men who for some reason don’t get taken to task for exploitation. How do men get off the hook for lousy behavior and women don’t.
This little hypothesis only works if you accept that sending a naked pic or making a sex tape with your boyfriend/husband is either a crime or an unethical act.
When misogynists talk about feminists wanting women to live a life free of consequences or accountability, what they really mean is that they’re angry at feminists for daring to suggest that a woman shouldn’t be abused, raped or killed for not catering to the every whim of angry misogynists.
Case in point.
Apparently feminists/western women/American women are spoiled and entitled for not thinking that en masse corrective rape is a good thing.
Tell that to women like the members of Pussy Riot who went to prison for their activism or Malala Yousafzai who got shot in the face for hers. These women have more bravery and contribute so much more to society than any of these asshole keyboard warriors who think they’re such ALPHA MEN.
“act out of her line.”
In her defense, sometimes the people who write the cue cards have sloppy handwriting.
This. Do they really want women to only have sex if they’re married? Do they really want women to never get naked in front of men or in front of a camera? Of course not. That wouldn’t please their all important boners. They just want to be able to hurt the women who do have sex and/or show their bodies for being “sluts.”
As someone who has received a fair amount of nude pictures online (always from a willing and indeed eager participant), I really can’t understand guys who’re willing to share such pictures or videos at a moment’s notice. I personally view the images and videos as highly personal and indeed extremely private. But I guess that’s more to do with me being a moderately civilized person and not a raging MRA. My belief in in humanity is eroded a little bit more every time I hear of things like this. 🙁
So… Revenge porn is the just consequences for women who refuse to settle down with Nice Guys? The sorts of Nice Guys who would make excuses for revenge porn?
I’ve been waiting for the right post to link this video in, and I think I just found it.
Also, these are the guys who will pressure a woman into sending them nudes in the first place. Mother. Fucking. Assholes. OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.
I forgot to comment on this little gem.
Nope. The “Nice Guys” who can’t get a pic sent consensually will just hack a woman and steal the pics.
I just… guh. RoK is clearly trying for a non-existent award as the Worst Shithole of the Internet.
@Tina S – I think part of the reason most women don’t post revenge porn of their ex-boyfriends is because posting naked pictures of a man is usually not going to achieve the point of revenge porn- which is to embarrass and humiliate the person in the photos.
It’s an extension of the player/whore double standard- if a man’s dick pics are posted online by a vengeful ex-girlfriend, the Internet hate would be more focused on the ex-girlfriend than on the victimized man. Since revenge porn is mostly a straight dude thing, there wouldn’t be a lot of interest in circulating or even looking at the pictures. This is why men are a lot less careful about posting pictures like these- sometimes they’ll even send them to perfect strangers they met on dating sites. There’s very little risk involved. If a guys mom or boss saw the pictures, they would probably be more sympathetic to the invasion of privacy, whereas women are “supposed to know better” than to distribute erotic photos.
In the handful of cases where a man does suffer substantially because someone posts his revenge porn, it often has to do with that man being married and powerful in other ways- e.g. Anthony Weiner. In that case, his dick pics were considered scandalous because Weiner was married; so they constituted some kind of e-infidelity.
My hope is that erotic photos eventually become so ubiquitous that posting them ceases to become scandalous. At that point, if someone digs up erotic pics the response will only be “so what” and “wow- aren’t you a petty jerk”. People will be less likely to make a scandal out of someone else’s erotic photos because they know it could just as easily happen to them.
The word “slut” is too crass and common. We need to be classy. And a tattoo on “the face” is entirely too close to makeup, which we all know is a kind of lying.
What we need is a big letter. To be permanently emblazoned onto the front of their clothing. It should stand for the crime they’re committing. And clearly having sex when RoK posters don’t approve is a crime. And it should be big. And red.
So close and yet, so far. Dollars to donuts this same guy would deny with his last breath that the way women are portrayed in media has any effect on people’s attitudes.
Is it now possible for us to say “I’ve heard it all”? after reading this? 🙁
@kylagb
To steal a phrase from another site about another site: there’s always more, and it’s always worse.
“There is always a loser in the game of musical cocks”
1.) Musical cocks sounds like a great party game. I want to play it after drinking whiskey.
2.) The loser should have been faster when the music stopped.
3.) The misogynist who wrote that isn’t invited to my musical cocks/whiskey party.
@lea
Totally agree with everything you said!!
@Idonggor
Have you actually ever been to Russia? I used to live there and I can’t imagine you lasting even a day. Even if you did get around the cops to begin with (most likely you would not and might on the receiving end of quite a bit of “alpha male” violence), many of the women woukdalso make a meal of you. Really, you think that Russian women are fragile daffodils who will do whatever you say? Think again, dude.
When you play the game of musical cocks, you win or you have bonersads.
BUT WHUT ABOUT TEH MENZ???
Hey, PUA scum…this is why no one wants you. Because your “game” is so transparent, and this shit only makes you look fuglier (if such a thing is even possible anymore).
I just…tattoo her face and lock her in a rapehouse?
I don’t want to deal with knowing there are people in the world who say things like that.
(On the bizarre side, a sluttery sounds a bit like a cattery. If anything was funny right now there’d probably be amusing cattery jokes to be made.)
I wish I could say something profound or meaningful about how this mindset can be changed, but I don’t think it can. I’ve met loads of geezers with these kind of mindsets and I’m constantly baffled by them and how they get to make this shit up.
I wish they’d stop this nice guy whinging, all they have to do it is read their own shit objectively to realise they are the same as the bad boys, immature selfish shitlords, who richly deserve the misery they make for themselves.