Breaking News: Men’s Rights mod on Reddit is kind of a dick

So, funny story.

Earlier today, some guy on the Men’s Rights subreddit made a not-so-vaguely threatening remark about me. I sent the mod a message about it, and, well, this was his response:

Yeah. Pretty sure that’s not exactly the way Reddit wants its mods to behave.

 

Posted on July 27, 2011, in douchebaggery, drama, MRA, reddit, threats. Bookmark the permalink. 81 Comments.

  1. Trollin’MRAs, I deleted your comment. Not cool.

  2. fair enough, David. You are officially ethically superior to The MRA Reddit. :D

  3. Why do misogynist men so often compare men to animals btw? -_- (always when it suits them, since they also tend to go on about how superior and intelligent men are in other cases) Men aren’t dogs. MRAs aren’t dogs… they don’t act on uncontrollable instinct…. they’re human beings. -_- And if dogs attack or hurt human beings, they get put down… no trials… no “innocent until proven guilty”… no police investigations… :\ Is that rly how EWME and others see themselves and want to be treated? :\

    (I still have no idea what it was a metaphor for btw… xD )

  4. I am really fond of dogs. I wish that MRAs had the consistency, good nature, and comparably sensible worldview of the average dog. Besides, dogs are highly trainable and social, which is why they make such good pets.

    A snake might be a better analogy, because they are not easily trained to do anything and tend to act out of instinct in all matters. However, even though we do not blame a snake morally for its uncontrollable instincts, we feel free to exterminate and hunt it to protect ourselves from it. That is what follows from an assertion of being an instinctive, not conscious, and dangerous animal. Of course, over here in reality, men are not like snakes, but, you know, that also means they have moral responsiblity (as do people of other genders).

  5. Why do misogynist men so often compare men to animals btw? -_- (always when it suits them, since they also tend to go on about how superior and intelligent men are in other cases) Men aren’t dogs. MRAs aren’t dogs… they don’t act on uncontrollable instinct…. they’re human beings.

    I think that most of the Spearhead crowd are not human beings …

  6. eww-me was saying that men were like abused dogs. Except that IRL abused dogs tend to cower in fear rather than attack people.

  7. @no more mr nice guy:

    “I think that most of the Spearhead crowd are not human beings …”

    No, they’re quite human. There are no real monsters, just human beings who behave monstrously. This is why I try not to speak of people in terms of not being human, beyond the dangerousness of dehumanizing people I disagree with. By ascribing inhumanity to them, it makes them seem anomalous and rare, statistical oddities that happen so infrequently as to be unimportant. They are not.

  8. Mertvaya Ruka: Don’t forget the Huttaree Militia. And whoever it was who firebombed the Planed Parenthood clinic yesterday

  9. Pecunium, yeah, I saw that earlier this morning. I could literally trip over a half-dozen stories like that on accident, but we’re supposed to REALLY be worried that one or two incidents is actually the herald of a wave of feminist-inspired castration attacks. And, of course, if we fail to believe this nonsense, it’ll be OUR fault the next time one of these scumbags goes off the rails and kills a bunch of innocent people. The mind doesn’t boggle, it dry-heaves.

  10. Futrelle: RES users represent!

  11. I think you mean: RESpresent!

    (For everyone else, that’s the Reddit Enhancement Suite. Recommended.)

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