By David Futrelle
Yesterday, a brand new Redditor calling herself (himself?) concernedwife123 posted her (his?) tale of woe in an assortment of subreddits — looking, allegedly, for some advice. The alleged woman explained how she had allegedly lost her alleged husband to an alleged sex doll with “huge tits and a round ass with very human like skin.” But she (allegedly) felt she couldn’t really complain, because she had been mostly turning him down for sex for months. She (allegedly) felt awful.
It was a story that seemed designed to appeal to the typical male Redditor’s not-so-hidden desire to see women get their comeuppance after doing men wrong. And, with a certain sort of Redditor, the story was a huge hit — with concernedwife123’s postings getting hundreds of upvotes in r/Relationship_Advice and r/AmITheAsshole.
The posting also seemed, well, fake as hell. I mean, just take a look at this nonsense.
And then the whole bus clapped.
Seriously, if even a word of this story turns out to be true — including “and” and “the” — I will eat my cats.
I’m not the only one to conclude that the story is fake. The posting was removed from r/Relationship_Advice, r/AmITheAsshole, and the woman-centric r/2XChromosomes, presumably because the mods of these subs thought it looked fishy.
But before it vanished, the story garnered well over a thousand responses from Redditors who, for the most part, took it very seriously. Some offered earnest advice; others gloated.
“Sorry hun, you played yourself on this one,” reads the highest-ranked reply in r/Relationship_Advice, with more than 600 upvotes.
“May i call OP the bad word? I think she deserves it for being so selfish,” added another Redditor.
And those were the polite ones. Further down in the discussion, things got a bit rawer. “how’s it feel?” mocked someone calling themself LandWhaleHarpoon. “he’s been putting up with your BS for a year now and you can’t even handle it 1 time.”
“What a cunt!” added, er, Analjuice420.
Not everyone was quite so concise.
“Who cares how you feel,” wrote MoonLantern2.
Did you even care one iota how rejection from you his wife made him feel? Do you know what a sexless marriage does to a man? You just took away his favorite thing in the world, the one thing that brings pleasure and satisfaction to his life. You are a horrible and selfish wife. Just accept that you screwed up your marriage. Grow a heart and some genuine affection and try for a moment to show love to your husband.
Some of the commenters seemed to have wandered in to r/Relationship_advice from the Men Going Their Own Way subreddit.
“Congratulations to your husband… He put you in your place,” wrote someone called TheAnarxoCapitalist.
You should learn not to be a biatch and give him his needs.
So what if you’re not in the mood? Is it too much to keep him satisfied? If you had told him this before marriage, he wouldn’t have married you. But now you’re acting like this because you have the power, which is exactly why mgtow is against marriage. Give him a blowy if you’re not in the mood for vaginal sex. But you chose to ignore him. This is the perfect lesson for you. You’re disposable. Enjoy that!
In the MGTOW subreddit itself, where one of the regulars posted a screenshot of the OP, things started off pretty spicy. To the OP’s concluding sentence, in which she — he? — complained
of feeling “awful,” one MGTOW redditor replied “[y]ou should cunt. You really should.”
“Lol, glorious,” wrote QuadraticLove.
Classic female double think; they always want their cake and they want to eat it, too. Now that he isn’t a slave to her pussy, she’s in panic mode.
Other MGTOWs used the post as yet another chance to rail against the alleged evil of all women.
This demonstrates the insane, backwards logic of women.
When you want them, they don’t want you. When you move on, they suddenly want you. It’s not the guy. it’s the power and attention. If a guy doesn’t bend over backwards for her approval, the woman sees it as a challenge. “Why isn’t he begging me like everyone else?!”
My ex was like this. Treated me like shit during our relationship, emotionally cheated, dumped me, acted like a complete slut afterwards. When I wanted nothing to do with her, she spammed me with messages, begging me to take her back.
Women feed on drama and attention.
Remarkably, some in r/MGTOW were skeptical of the OP — but mostly because they thought the posting was written too logically to have come from a woman.
Redditors gonna Reddit, I guess.
I’m looking forward to the OP’s big reveal that this was all a hoax.
H/T– Mary McCarthy, for the bit about “and” and “the.”
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@Lainey
Ive posted here anonymously before, I take lots of breaks from negative content
I agree w all that and you put a lot into words I hadnt quite put my finger on, so no apologies needed and thanks
that part about you and your partner’s relationship w ea other using toys sounds very sweet
yea Im pretty angry at the *responses* in comments on OP, the ANGER at a woman for basically just literally not consenting. Not surprised tho. The OP is almost mild in comparison, but it is intentionally meant to provoke those reactions.
Just an aside, you probably didn’t look too closely at that “And then the whole bus clapped” thing before you linked it, because it’s a weird anti-social justice Tumblr with racist memes, anti-feminist, transphobic and ableist jokes and stuff like that, ran by someone who “focuses on feminism, social justice, religion, and how it’s all fucking us over”.
Should probably find another link.
Oh, and he’s also a Gamergater who was into that whole “It’s okay to be white” thing, because of course.
@DW
Yikes!