Gawker successfully trolls idiots with fake men’s site called, wait for it, The Cuck

All the idiots yelling “YOU CONTACT MAKE THIS STUFF UP FOLKS!”. Oh it hurts when I laugh

Hahahahaha. They have so little self-awareness that something obviously satirical goes straight ovcer their heads. How is it even possible to get dressed in the morning with that little sense?

“Stop trying to make cuck happen!”

TBH when I heard that Gawker was creating a site called the Cuck, it didn’t strike me as being completely out of the realm of possibilities. I didn’t read it, but given the tone of some of their, ahem, journalism (remember Valleywag or the article on Jez about how fun domestic abuse is when men are on the receiving end), without reading the articles, it didn’t strike me as something they wouldn’t do in all seriousness.

“Gawker has published some questionable articles, therefore it’s reasonable to think that they would unironically claim for themselves the insult that the alt-right considers viciously cutting, and everyone else mocks the alt-right for using.” ?????

So, Poe’s Law, right?

Though, there’s a dynamic to how Poe’s Law plays out that’s often overlooked. (Possibly even by Poe)

If you can’t tell the difference between X and a parody of X, that may say more about your opinion of X that it says about X itself.

First time I really appreciated that distinction was when someone was trying to make his distinction that he was okay with feminism, he was just against *extremist* feminism. “Surely you would agree this is taking it too far,” and he linked to what was obviously an MRA parody of a feminist. At least it was obvious to me. Apparently it wasn’t obvious to him.

When conservatives try to mock progressives, they only reveal that they don’t understand anyone else’s position. When anyone mocks conservatives, the right reveals that they can’t even identify their own.

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@Zhukov, just saw your comment there – hello, welcome! If you are interested in some bespoke misandry, there is a welcome package.

Left-wing tabloid trash like Gawker and its subsidiaries, Slate, etc.

Just curious – what sort of left wing publications do you like? If you consider Slate trash.

have unironically published articles about men enjoying the open relationships that their wives requested, finding feminism after discovering their wife cheated, and rationalizing sitting down to pee.

– If people are in open relationships and having fun, all the power to them! You have fun, guys and gals!

– Cheating is a terrible, traumatic experience in a relationship. It’s almost never just due to one person being a selfish jerk, though. Humans are complicated. Could be that, in this instance, the guy discovered feminism because he was neglecting and mistreating his wife? If they decided to keep together and try, and he discovered feminism in the course of discovering why she cheated? Fantastic. I hope they heal the rift and have a lovely life together.

– If you aren’t gonna sit down, at least clean up your dang mess. The ding-dong is less a sniper rifle and more a shotgun. Clean the walls. Ew.

A website like The Cuck was only the next logical progression. You can’t really call it satire; self-deprecating, almost to the point of self-loathing “humor” seems to be more appropriate.

This is only true in a world which takes the word “cuck” to be anything more than a ridiculous sound right-wing poultry makes. No one outside of the alt-right henhouse uses this word to mean anything. It’s a ridiculous meme, and the fact that you can’t tell makes me wonder the sort of sea you swim in.

Evidence: the top google hits are either :

– Urbandictionary/KnowYourMeme/Reddit, or
– Actual media sites explaining the term to non-jerks, or
– Gawker’s satire site, or news about.

In the real world, the only relevance the term “Cuck” has is in giving a word to angry white men that voices their insecurity and frustration from losing dominance in an age of growing diversity.

Why couldn’t you see that this was satire?

@Scildfreja: Dammit, I now have the phrase “spray and pray” stuck in my head thanks to your gun/genital comparison.

I have a friend whose piercings make it necessary for him to pee sitting down because he’s considerate like that (and doesn’t really feel like getting pee all over himself, the toilet, the floor, and the walls. Apparently piercings turn you into something kind of like a showerhead.)

I also have a friend who was vehemently in favor of open relationships. Then his girlfriend left him for the guy who didn’t want to share her with anyone or have plans for sharing himself with others. And he had a scuffle with the boyfriend of a woman who he was convinced if he presented his case rationally, the boyfriend would of course have no problem with sharing her – my friend was wrong. Oh so very wrong. He also got married last month, to a nice woman he has no interest in sharing and will be monogamous with.

Strange how life works.

Thanks WWTH. That’s very interesting.