rapists tell their stories on reddit, jezebel writes an article about it

[Sasha]

i could not get through the reddit thread, way to disgusting to read, but jezebel did and i'm grateful for it as they condensed it in a eye opening article. not because there is any reasonable explanation for the actions of these bastards, but exactly because its so banal, because lots of these guys blame everyone but themselves and probably would do it again if they could get away with it.

http://jezebel.com/5929544/rapists-explain-themselves-on-reddit-and-we-should-listen

[Capitalist Octopus]

:crying:
That's the best response I can muster.
I can't imagine the pain that comes from the privilege I have as a male, but they more I understand it, the more utterly devastated I feel.

[Zostrianos]

Some sound like they're trying to justify it, others just look like complete idiots

She ran to my bed and didn't want me to touch her. I didn't understand what had happened. This hypersexual person who had offered to give me head suddenly didn't want to touch me.

Maybe she just wanted emotional comfort at that time, did ya think of that? :rolleyes:

[¿Que?]

One of the reasons I stopped going to reddit was all the misogyny. There were other problems. A bunch of liberal apologia, rabid new atheism (and islamophobia), libertarianism, racism, and even a sizable minority of solid conservatives. But the main reason was probably the misogyny because it stood out the worst.

I noticed a lot of masculinism even in relatively benign sounding threads, like how to raise your children. I got into this discussion with this one guy who had daughters, and he made this thread that got a bunch of upvotes about how he used to disrespect women and go to stripclubs and then he had a daughter which changed his perspective. His whole reasoning was that it was his duty to teach her what a good man was. Generally speaking nothing that he was saying was really all that bad, it just struck me as so paternalistic, particularly how he described what a good man was. My argument to him was that all the things he described as "being a good man" were so general, they could apply to men and women alike, but for some reason, he kept insisting that those qualities were specifically masculine in character. It was frustrating to say the least.

Nowadays, I just look at /r/awww when I'm on the phone and feel fidgety. Don't get into discussions because you really can't reason with those people.

And SRS is too radical. They wanted to restrict the use of the words lame and dumb for being ableist. They might be right, but it seems a little extreme to me.

[Yuppie Grinder]

Reddit is terrible.



And SRS is too radical. They wanted to restrict the use of the words lame and dumb for being ableist. They might be right, but it seems a little extreme to me.

That's not radical, that's whiny.

[Crux]

The comments field reminded me of this article: http://glosswatch.com/2012/07/27/its-not-victim-blaming-just-common-sense/

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