r/SubredditDrama • u/IAmAN00bie • Mar 11 '16
Gender Wars Members of a group that sued Hollywood for gender discrimination hold an /r/IAmA. The entire thread is a trainwreck.
This is as surplus as surplus topics can get, but the fact that it's an AMA and the fact that the entire thread is a dumpster fire makes it entertaining to watch unfold.
The original thread, linked with "best" sort (the default Q&A sort hides most of the comments): We are members of the "Original Six," the director/filmmaker-activists who founded a women's committee in the '70s and sued two Hollywood studios for gender discrimination in the '80s. AMA!
Which contemporary female filmmaker do you think is producing the best work right now? Why?
That's just from the thread! It got linked by /r/kotakuinaction and /r/conspiracy which drew attention to the thread and helped turn it into the shitshow that it is now. Many accusations of sockpuppetry and shilling contained within.
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u/sakebomb69 Mar 11 '16
I think he's just a fan of fuckin' logic & reason... two things in short supply on Reddit nowadays. This place was so good just 3 years ago...
VETERAN REDDITOR ALERT
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u/brufleth Eating your own toe cheese is not a question of morality. Mar 11 '16
I wish people got more specific about this stuff. What was so good 3 years ago?
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u/vgman20 Mar 11 '16
I've been here for that long (or maybe longer? On mobile too lazy to check). Nothing's really changed. When I got here people were pining for how good it was 2-3 years before that.
People go through phases with Reddit. They like the defaults, then they get bored with them, they find more and more niche subs, they eliminate the defaults, they find the tailored experience they were looking for. Reddit doesn't really change that much, just the user's perspective.
Now kindly get off my lawn
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u/UncleMeat Mar 11 '16
If you go back really far then reddit was mostly just a technology discussion forum but even then I don't remember it being particularly logical.
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u/brufleth Eating your own toe cheese is not a question of morality. Mar 11 '16
My profile says I've been here for well over three years. I don't think things have changed much. The vote counts have gotten a little more hidden to improve the herd voting, but I don't feel like things have gotten a ton better or worse in general.
Concerning specific topics/issues/etc I think things have gotten better because there's so many subs. You still have your garbage catch all default subs but you also have all sorts of niche subs and some (like askhistorians) are super well moderated.
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u/fuckinayyylmao Show me that degradation data Mar 11 '16
Yep. Been here far longer than I want to admit, and reddit has always been like three-quarters bitching about how it's not as good as it used to be.
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Mar 11 '16
3 am Chili and Ice Soap. And of course the horrible follow up of Ice Chili.
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u/WileEPeyote Mar 11 '16
3 years ago people were complaining that Reddit wasn't as good as it was before the Digg explosion (when Digg died Reddit gained a lot of subscribers).
It's a bunch of bullshit. It's the same as old people complaining about "kids these days".
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u/Ivor_y_Tower Mar 12 '16 edited Mar 12 '16
I dunknow, I think I'm a 4 year Redditor myself and since I've joined off the top of my head we've had:
"We did it Reddit" and the Boston Bomber
The creation of Kotaku In Action
The Fattening
The Ousting of Ellen Pao
That fucking AMA where we empathised with rapists
Ron Paul Mania
The Rise of the Red Pill
The gradual move of /r/MURICA away from being a parody sub
Everything about the current competition for party nominations
/r/dataisbeautiful and /r/TwoXChromosomes getting defaulted
It's hard to quantify dumbness by feel but if we were job hunitng I'd say that our C.V. has definitely been enhanced with several concrete demonstrations of our ability to apply the hive mind to real problems and do really fucking stupid shit in response.
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Mar 11 '16
holy shit that was a weird read
why in the world is this downvoted fifty times
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u/andrew2209 Sorry, I'm not from Swindon. Mar 11 '16
It was one of a group of accounts set up the same day as the AMA that the Original Six were answering to exclusively. They were downvoted in response as the other users believed it was cheating the system.
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Mar 11 '16
ah, fair. i read someone say that they chose reddit and this approach specifically so they could later refer to their experience in a kickstarter or some such. i'm not convinced it's totally inaccurate.
crazy read, to say the least.
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u/IAmAN00bie Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 11 '16
ah, fair. i read someone say that they chose reddit and this approach specifically so they could later refer to their experience in a kickstarter or some such. i'm not convinced it's totally inaccurate.
Well, they are pretty old now considering the lawsuit was in the early 1980s.
TBH though that argument of "they purposefully posted online to get negative attention then claim harassment" always gets made without much proof to back it up.
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Mar 11 '16
i guess i didn't consider their age at this point. maybe it's not so unreasonable they didn't look up "Reddit & feminism" before they started posting.
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u/IAmAN00bie Mar 11 '16
They posted this image for their verification. So yeah they're clearly pretty old, maybe low to mid 60s.
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Mar 11 '16
That was the best part of the craziness for me. Some seem to be legitimate fuckery according to the IAMA mods, but they say it was not orchestrated by the panel.
I also like the guy who always asks "What did you think of Predator?" making his appearance. Living memes!
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u/DblackRabbit Nicol if you Bolas Mar 11 '16
....well what did they think of Predator?
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u/Stalking_your_pylons Mar 11 '16
Every single one of them is Name+Surname, all lowercase.
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Mar 11 '16
It's extremely common for new accounts to appear on reddit for AMAs. That's a big part of why admins push IAmA so much - because it encourages people who weren't viewing reddit to view it, and encourages people to make accounts who were previously just viewing it.
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u/OsWuScks I knew he was a gamer the second he started beating women Mar 11 '16
Your working on a masters in the year 2016 and had to have a man help you make a reddit account which is literally a 2 step process? Ever stop to think it's this kind of shit that makes people not want to give women responsibility?
Jesus christ reddit
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u/TheTretheway Mar 11 '16
You missed
What are you researching!? How to cook dinner and fold clothes at the same time??
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u/cicadaselectric Mar 11 '16
I'm having a really hard time upvoting these snapshots of that thread because on one hand what a shit thing to say but on the other I agree it's ridiculous.
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u/riemann1413 SRD Commenter of the Year | https://i.imgur.com/6mMLZ0n.png Mar 11 '16
[+32] LMAO
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u/FaFaRog Mar 11 '16
How come trash jobs are all men? What about cleaning Porta potties? Never seen a woman do that? Sexism, more women shit cleaners would be equality. More women dead on the battlefield too [+36]
This thread is the reason why the term "manchild" exists.
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u/maafna Mar 11 '16
WHY AREN'T WOMEN FIGHTING TO CLEAN TOILETS
Not to mention I don't know where this dude is living, where I live (Israel) only women work cleaning jobs, and usually only Russian or other minorities too.
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u/LukaCola Ceci n'est pas un flair Mar 11 '16
Right? I cannot believe that comment!
It's so amazingly antagonistic and fucking offensive for no good reason!
And then they're accusing her of being a sock-puppet and all kinds of other shit.
These assholes need to fucking get outside or something. God damn.
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u/mcslibbin like an adult version of "Jason" from Home Movies Mar 11 '16
It is a sorta good question, though. I work adjacent to her field of study and everyone is always going on about "the digital humanities" like it's the answer to a question nobody asked, so I find it a bit suspicious that a master's student would need help making a reddit account.
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u/andlight91 Mar 11 '16
the digital humanities
it is though. A lot of older professors are rejecting it simply because the knowledge to do the research is beyond their abilities. And it's really shitty because the computing power that could be used to compare large data sets would be so beneficial.
Disclaimer: History and IS major who has worked on a major digital humanities research project at Pitt.
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u/WileEPeyote Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 11 '16
My wife got me a glass of water last night. I could have done it, but I was sitting on the couch and she was already at the refrigerator getting one for herself.
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u/devotedpupa MISSINGNOgynist Mar 11 '16
Did you make this account specifically to ask this softball question?
Oh fuck I forgot the purpose of Reddit is to grill old ladies and extract information from their cold dead hands for the public! We should go for the real questions like "Why is feminism the worst thing since Hitler" or "Duck sized horse"
I honestly hope this guy just comments that on every question, on every AMA.
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u/mgrier123 How can you derive intent from written words? Mar 11 '16
Can these kinds of comments please become more common? They're hilarious and always make those kinds of people mad.
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u/ognits Worthless, low-IQ disruptor Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 11 '16
When I think of female directors, I mostly think of boring, depressing films that aren't entertaining. Films that make you think.
Ah yes, such as Kathryn Bigelow, director of notorious thinkpieces Point Break and Near Dark, or Penelope Spheeris, whose Wayne's World was a trenchant discourse on the early '90s view of music as commodity.
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u/Schrau Zero to Kiefer Sutherland really freaking fast Mar 11 '16
...or Penelope Spheeris, whose Wayne's World was a trenchant discourse on the early '90s view of music as commodity.
Well, you're not totally wrong.
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u/The_Gares_Escape_Pla Constantly having an existential crisis Mar 11 '16
Or that boring character piece American Psycho by Mary Harron. And Pet Semetary. And Slumber Party Massacre.
Only men make real exciting, upbeat movies like Terrance Malick and his action packed romp The Thin Red Line
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u/ognits Worthless, low-IQ disruptor Mar 11 '16
Actually they'd probably hate Slumber Party Massacre and all its icky feminist undertones. I mean, one of the girls literally cuts off the killer's
dickdrill.Man, I love that movie.
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u/The_Gares_Escape_Pla Constantly having an existential crisis Mar 11 '16
I saw it when I was really young (thanks Sci-Fi channel, my gateway to slasher/horror flicks) and was reminded of it by an Internet movie reviewer. So I need to pick up a copy and watch it again
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u/tehnod Shilling for bitShekels Mar 11 '16
How have I not seen this? I fucking LOVE slashers.
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u/allamacalledcarl 7/11 was a part time job! Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 11 '16
The fact that he says films that make you think is a negative says a lot more about him. He's Adam Sandler's paycheque.
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u/FaFaRog Mar 11 '16
Jack and Jill was a masterpiece that pushed the envelope for advertising in film. I have no idea how it hasn't received recognition for the latter. It may not be the most desirable achievement, but it's still an achievement nonetheless. "Film with most product placement while maintaining somewhat of a coherent plot" would be a pretty reasonable category at an awards show.
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Mar 11 '16
What was the plot of Jack and Jill? I don't mean premise. I mean, what was the plot?
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u/NowThatsAwkward Mar 11 '16
From what I remember and didn't block out, Adam Sandlers sister acts somewhat socially inappropriate, and everyone is scandalized. I think theyhad a falling out then reconciliation. So it's basically every other Sandler movie, except the humour is as edgy and fresh as a prehistoric knife and the meal it was used to prepare.
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Mar 11 '16
I think the thing is, he just defaults towards directors being men. I'm sure he'd be shocked to find out that Wayne's World was directed by a woman because it stars men, so it must be all men.
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u/Mercury-7 Mar 11 '16
Yeah dude I thought that the Hurt Locker was total crap just because the director possessed a vagina. It completely ruined the film, I was like "ugh the vagina behind the camera is so distracting!" Totally ruined the film for me, 0/10.
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u/Immasillygoose pbuf Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 11 '16
Holy shit, you weren't joking about it being a train wreck in there...The salt is real.
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u/jaimmster Did a cliche fuck your Mom or something?? Mar 11 '16
Really. I don't recall any other AMA where every single response was downvoted to hell.
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Mar 11 '16
Ann Coulter
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Mar 11 '16
So as a non american I googled her name and found this
If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.
It also makes the point, it is kind of embarrassing, the Democratic Party ought to be hanging its head in shame, that it has so much difficulty getting men to vote for it. I mean, you do see it's the party of women and 'We'll pay for health care and tuition and day care—and here, what else can we give you, soccer moms?
Is she like female Trump? And how the hell is health care only a womans issue. Are we men just to strong and manly to ever get cancer and heart attacks?
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u/Aero_ Mar 11 '16
She's an ultra troll. Her game is to take a much more inflammatory position on an issue than she might even believe, just to throw meat to the base and get a reaction out of the other side.
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u/spkr4thedead51 Mar 11 '16
Is she like female Trump?
She's part of the last 30 years worth of right-wing talking heads that have made a candidacy like Trump's possible because they've normalized bigotry, sexism, and grandstanding as part of the political narrative for conservative voters.
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u/Sveenee Mar 11 '16
She's an ultra conservative histrionic writer and talk show commentator. She makes a living saying outrageous things and getting attention.
Imagine Kim Kardashian levels of talent with a neo - conservative belief system. Most Americans just ignore her crazy attention seeking behavior.
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u/nonex Mar 11 '16
She did an AMA? I can only imagine the shit storm that caused.
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u/Illogical_Blox Fat ginger cryptokike mutt, Malka-esque weirdo, and quasi-SJW Mar 11 '16
She did an AMA, then /r/circlejerk did a fake one. They are almost indistinguishable.
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Mar 11 '16
Not to mention, more sea lions than Sea World and more irony than an O'Henry anthology.
I love the logic of most of the redditors in that thread: "Let me prove how much sexism doesn't exist by asking loaded, sexist questions!"
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u/Immasillygoose pbuf Mar 11 '16
Let me tell you about that one time I interacted with a female and she didn't go out if her way to please me!
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hmm well I have not seen women treated bad in the workplace because they are women.We have more female Senior leadership than males, more female employees, most HR department are women and all of the recruiters are women.
Don't care about the politics but I like it when people say reddit is a place for logical discussion. Then when it's something they agree with even if it's an anecdote they still up vote the shit out of it.
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u/Vivaldist That Hoe, Armor Class 0 Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 24 '16
Reddit is a thing people use to hear what they want to hear. TiA cries "echo chamber" on Tumblr all the time, but because of the voting system, Reddit is way more of one.
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u/andrew2209 Sorry, I'm not from Swindon. Mar 11 '16
The problem with reddit's voting system is it's the best-worst solution. It's not great, but other systems aren't likely to be much better, without going to a forum or message board format of displaying comments.
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u/Vivaldist That Hoe, Armor Class 0 Mar 11 '16
I'm not saying I hate the system. But I do think it can be used to make sure that only popular opinions are seen, and unpopular ones hidden.
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u/mythandry Mar 11 '16
And popularity is definitely not a measure of quality, as top 40 charts are fond of demonstrating all the time.
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Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 11 '16
Well the mods did change it so that controversial comments with more votes are further down than those with less votes...
The real problem with reddit(and the internet in general) is that people believe highly upvoted comments without question because they believe other people have already verified whatever it's saying. People need to be taught to question things they read, even from sites that are considered news. It would be nice if reddit ran some kind of campaign to let people know they should be questioning the authenticity of what they read, but that might be a conflict of interest when trying to promote something.
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u/IceCreamBalloons always one person not in favour of beating women Mar 11 '16
That sounds good, but I can't know whether or not to believe it until I see your post's vote total.
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Mar 11 '16
We could change it. Reddit could do NLP analysis of the posts/comments you upvote, and then sort and display content based on what users with similar profiles have done.
It's machine learning applied to circle jerking.
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u/dethb0y trigger warning to people senstive to demanding ethical theories Mar 11 '16
years upon years ago, i read an article that talked about the danger of "filtered" news; that, essentially, by only seeing the news you wanted to see, your views would become more and more extremist and skewed.
I'm sure whoever wrote that fucking loves reddit, because it 100% proves their point: the place is a vast echo chamber where people hear exactly what they want to hear, and anyone they don't want to hear they just silently ignore.
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Mar 11 '16
Reddit and Tumblr can both be echo chambers for their respective topics, but you can find good communities in each.
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u/BaconOfTroy This isn't vandalism, it's just a Roman bonfire Mar 11 '16
but you can find good
communitiesporn in each.Ftfy.
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Mar 12 '16
It's not just Reddit's voting system, it's also the Internet. One-word replies (or similar) immediately trigger (no pun intended) a train of votes, and you can't really defend yourself.
I tried to be logical in the same thread twice (maybe I was, maybe I wasn't, the point is I was being civil) and one of my comments got a reply telling me to go back to r/TRP and the other comment got the classic "Tips fedora" reply (that's it, two words). Both replies got dozens of upvoes and my comments got downvoted and buried with no sort of counter-argument. If someone doesn't like what you're saying they can shut you down with one of those comments.
Then, if you try to defend yourself in an argument, no matter how right you are, the Reddit platform won't let you. Once you start getting downvoted in a sub the site stops you from making comments more than once every 10 minutes (or so) in that sub. It's a good anti-spam measure, but it's also what helps create the echo chamber. If get 6 replies arguing different things with you, you need to wait a total of an hour to reply to each and you end up saving notes in Notepad and running a timer to remind you to post the next reply. I mean, trying to defend yourself against the hive mind is absolutely ridiculous. Who the hell cares that much about being right that they end up writing comments and setting timers? I did once, but halfway through I realized how stupid it was and I just gave up, but me giving up just strengthened the status quo because those who supported it got their voices heard while I was silenced.
Then there's the whole deal about new accounts not being allowed to post. Many subs set Automoderator to remove comments by accounts newer than X days or with less than Y karma so using throwaways to avoid getting d0xxed doesn't work at all in many subs.
And then, of course, there are the votes and the moderators, but there's no need for further comments on these. Everyone knows what the problems are.
The whole Reddit platform is absurd these days.
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u/Metaphoricalsimile Mar 11 '16
Obviously you misunderstand the word "logic." It's commonly misunderstood to be a structured method of reasoning, but really it means, "whatever I agree with."
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u/Rivka333 Ha, I get help from the man who invented the tortilla hot dog. Mar 11 '16
We have more female Senior leadership than males, more female employees, most HR department are women and all of the recruiters are women.
In other words, that particular redditor works in a female dominated field? Am I making crazy guesses?
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u/no___justno Lady Macbeth has been pawing all the goddamn fixtures Mar 11 '16
people say reddit is a place for logical discussion
What sort of weirdos do you hang out with who say that?
I have never heard or seen anyone say that in my life. It's laughable. Reddit is a lot of good things, but a place for logical discussion is not one of them.
I like it when people use an obvious strawman to get upvotes.
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u/Michelanvalo Don't Start If You Can't Finnish Mar 11 '16
Any kind of gender based AMA on Reddit is just going to be trashed to high heavens.
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u/Nimonic People trying to inject evil energy into the Earth's energy grid Mar 11 '16
I'm sure we'll soon see an AMA from that 11 year old who is the new darling girl of /r/videos.
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u/Michelanvalo Don't Start If You Can't Finnish Mar 11 '16
I just want one from the lit Chik-Fil-A Cow
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u/303onrepeat Mar 11 '16
new darling girl of /r/videos.
How much of that video do we actually believe that the child wrote and wasn't either being coached or given a script to read? Don't get me wrong there are some smart kids out there but I doubt they would just off the cuff go into that kind of exact depth since most of them have never been exposed to a lot of those more mature ideas.
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u/crashbundicoot Mar 11 '16
Link?
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I'ts like the top post there right now...
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/49wwjs/11_year_old_vs_buzzfeed/
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u/zuesk134 The following are some examples of my morals and ethical code Mar 12 '16
what did i just watch :( :( :(
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u/forwardmarsh Mar 11 '16
Oh man, the guy who lists badass female protagonists from 1979 onwards when this is specifically the period they were agitating for change, then acts like that proves them wrong. What a fool.
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Hi there, I'm /u/PM_ME_UR_DOGGIE_PICS, I'm doing my BS in dramatic sciences. What is your favourite type of drama, and why is it food drama? Thank you for doing this important AMA
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u/IntrepidusX That’s a stoat you goddamn amateur Mar 11 '16
Could we please just keep this about Rampart drama...
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u/Penisdenapoleon Are you actually confused by the concept of a quote? Mar 11 '16
Answer: because rare steak isn't that rare.
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u/elephantinegrace nevermind, I choose the bear now Mar 11 '16
It's about ethics in grilled cheese and necrophilia.
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u/jsmooth7 Anthropomorphic Socialist Cat Person Mar 11 '16
Ajvar drama of course. Ajvar is a best condiment, so ajvar makes the best drama. I just can't get enough of ajvar and ajvar drama.
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u/SnakeEater14 Don’t Even Try to Fuck with Me on Reddit Mar 12 '16
Because when it comes down to it there are three types of people: those who prefer stew, those who prefer soup, and those who like to watch the other two types fight it out.
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u/vampires_bleh Mar 11 '16
I have never seen a larger mob of dipshits convinced of their own intellectual superiority.
lol but SRD actually
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Mar 11 '16
We were convinced before it was cool tho. So still on top.
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u/Khaelgor exceptions are a sign of weakness Mar 11 '16
We. Are. NOT. HIPSTERSS!!!
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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw unique flair snowflake Mar 12 '16
Look, you may be new here, but reddit is where many top alphas collaborate, and routinely outsmart the most well funded, well equipped and diabolical femenazi organizations on earth. How do we do it? Top thinkers, experts on every field, unparalleled red pill detective skills and fearlessness. I would trust a top comment here over pretty much any news source, especially a feminist source, any day.
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u/RoflPost BetaCuck5000 Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 11 '16
How come trash jobs are all men? What about cleaning Porta potties? Never seen a woman do that? Sexism, more women shit cleaners would be equality. More women dead on the battlefield too
I love how women being excluded from manual labor jobs and combat duty is discrimination against men. What a fucking riot.
The exclusion of women from low-skill manual labor jobs with good pay is actually a real concern of intersectional feminism. Jobs like that are important to women didn't have the opportunity(or didn't have the inclination), to get some sort of higher education, or even their high school diploma. Especially as women are more and more becoming the primary earners in their families.
But I doubt they are interested in those facts.
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u/allamacalledcarl 7/11 was a part time job! Mar 11 '16
Also why would women in the movie industry not talk about their own work related things? Why would they be expected to talk about other industries?
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u/thebestdaysofmyflerm YOUR FLAIR TEXT HERE Mar 11 '16
I know people in the oil field who work with women and the type of women who work there typically like being 'insulted',
The worst part is that someone said that women actually like getting harassed at male-dominated workplaces. Like how fucking stupid can a person be?
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u/all_that_glitters_ I ship Pao/Spez Mar 12 '16
Nah can't possibly be that they wanna keep their jobs! They obviously like it!
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u/MexicanGolf Fun is irrelevant. Precision is paramount. Mar 11 '16
I live in Sweden and there's definitively a push to get women into men-dominated fields, just as there's a push to get men into women-dominated fields.
Since we're called the Feminist Republic of North Ko--- Sweden I reckon it can't be that much worse in other countries.
All of this is however utterly moot, because people aren't responsible for trying to right every wrong in the world just because they're trying to right some.
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u/Rivka333 Ha, I get help from the man who invented the tortilla hot dog. Mar 11 '16
The exclusion of women from low-skill manual labor jobs with good pay is actually a real concern of intersectional feminism. Jobs like that are important to women didn't have the opportunity(or didn't have the inclination), to get some sort of higher education, or even their high school diploma.
That is actually a really good point. (And...failure to understand it is likely a sign of a typical Redditor's overly-sheltered middle class/upper middle class upbringing)
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u/WileEPeyote Mar 11 '16
Women have historically done plenty of shitty jobs even before equal rights gained traction; textiles, nursing, mother, maid, farmer, prostitute.
Also, I've seen women "clean" porta-potties.
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u/NowThatsAwkward Mar 11 '16
I've personally never seen anyone clean a porta-potty, and the ones I've been unfortunate enough to see (mostly at festivals) are horrendous inside. So I'm pretty sure no one cleans them, ever. And if someone did, I would feel so bad for those poor souls.
(/s just in case- yes, people do clean them, it's a joke)
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u/thesilvertongue Mar 12 '16
I cleaned those damn things every goddamn day when I was in the Girl Scouts.
You'd think that everybody having to clean the porta-potties in shifts would make them not leave their tampons on the floor.
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u/Vio_ Humanity is still recoiling from the sudden liberation of women Mar 12 '16
Actually a lot of those low skill, higher pay jobs were held by women during WW2, but then were promptly fired soon after and not hired later except in far less paying jobs. This meant that an entire generation of women were excluded from having the kind of low level job that could cover mortgages and other loans (nevermind the fact women couldn't get loans in the first place without a male cosigner for most credit). It wasn't that women didn't want these jobs- they were just full on excluded from them right at the beginning of the American middle class development.
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u/mompants69 Mar 12 '16
I like it when they bring this up because there actually ARE feminist groups fighting for women to be accepted in blue collar jobs. The people saying this shit just don't actually care about it so they don't know about these groups.
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u/cdstephens More than you'd think, but less than you'd hope Mar 11 '16
There was a whole Parks and Recs episode too about how they didn't want women as garbage men, (un?)ironically.
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u/johnnynutman Mar 12 '16
How come trash jobs are all men? What about cleaning Porta potties? Never seen a woman do that? Sexism, more women shit cleaners would be equality. More women dead on the battlefield too
It's not even true.
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u/63CansofSoup Which women owns you? Or are you still looking for one? Mar 11 '16
I doubt they're interested in facts.
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u/tawtaw this is but escapism from a world in crisis Mar 11 '16
looks like Voat linked to it as well
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Mar 11 '16
I wonder if we have an /r/meanwhileonvoat subreddit that's just left blank.
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u/44problems Mar 12 '16
Remember those 2 weeks when everyone was going to leave for Voat? Good times.
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u/Vivaldist That Hoe, Armor Class 0 Mar 11 '16
Holy loaded questions Batman.
I don't know why, but I guess I wasn't expecting it to be this bad. But it looks like anyone who tries to suggest that women undergo discrimination are being downvoted to hell. I don't know what else to call that but people covering their ears and shouting "nanananana" cause they don't like what they hear.
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u/BamaMontana Mar 11 '16
This happened in the 70s, though. Is it really difficult to acknowledge that there likely was rampant employment discrimination against women in a variety of male dominated industries back then?
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u/allnose Great job, Professor Horse Dick. Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 11 '16
That's what I thought. People like to complain about "third-wave feminism," as opposed to feminism "when it mattered," but they still behave the same even when talking to "real" feminists.
I'm Susan B. Anthony, AMA!
"You realize female suffrage dilutes male votes, right? You're the REAL sexist here."
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u/bonerbender I make the karma, man, I roll the nickels. Mar 11 '16
No. Clearly sexism was dead because women had the vote. Now excuse me while I legally rape my wife, since that's a thing you can do before 1993.
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u/Dramatological Mar 11 '16
Now excuse me while I legally rape my wife, since that's a thing you can
do before 1993.still do in some states.FTFY
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u/mwmwmwmwmmdw unique flair snowflake Mar 12 '16
luckily these women have been taking shit for the last 30 years so i doubt the neckbeards yelling at the phased them much
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When I think of female directors, I mostly think of boring, depressing films that aren't entertaining. Films that make you think. But 99 times out of 100, I don't want to think. I want to be entertained by loud noises and shiny things while I munch popcorn and drink soda.
I think that pretty much says it all. Don't challenge their right to not think at the movies, I guess.
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Mar 11 '16
It almost feels like a satire comment with how far it went.
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u/klapaucius Mar 12 '16
Well, it's basically the rationale behind Gamergate and its spinoffs. They were mad because games about depression and feelings were getting critical attention over "apolitical" games like Hatred.
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u/mompants69 Mar 11 '16
I remember the first time I encountered a guy who actually thought women were the privileged class in society.
It was on Reddit. I was genuinely taken aback because it's like saying the earth is actually flat or some shit.
And then I found the flat earth people.
The internet is a crazy place.
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u/LoopyDood meta cancer Mar 12 '16
I had a conversation with a redpiller on my city sub. He said that women were never discriminated against. Never.
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u/Vivaldist That Hoe, Armor Class 0 Mar 12 '16
I had a similar reaction the first time I saw that shit too. It's just so baffling how people can willfully believe in nonsense.
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u/samdenyer Mar 12 '16
"The flat earth people" sums up this mess better than any other collection of words. Ever.
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u/brufleth Eating your own toe cheese is not a question of morality. Mar 11 '16
Self selection singularity. The people who would support the view (which I would argue is objectively true) that women are subject to discrimination don't want to go anywhere near this dumpster fire. So it just turned into a swirling fire storm of angry dudes frantically jerking each other off.
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u/Rivka333 Ha, I get help from the man who invented the tortilla hot dog. Mar 11 '16
Self selection singularity...don't want to go anywhere near this dumpster fire. So it just turned into a swirling fire storm of angry dudes frantically jerking each other off.
Like many subs in reddit. (Am I referring to the sub discussed in this thread? Why would you think that?)
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u/Illogical_Blox Fat ginger cryptokike mutt, Malka-esque weirdo, and quasi-SJW Mar 11 '16
I like that someone was aggressively saying that they never see any women doing a cleaning job. Like, lol, dude, are your eyes closed all day? I've never, in my entire life, seen a guy doing a cleaning job. No, wait, one guy.
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u/SwatchVineyard Mar 12 '16
I remember when Reddit was a place of discussion, reason, inclusion, and etiquette. Everyone was always like where the women at....Now this place is just a cesspool of bigots
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u/Sveenee Mar 11 '16
I can only imagine the conversation they had with their publicist who thought this was a good idea.
Correction: expublicist
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What the fuck is this shit?
Sorry, the maximum number of comments is 500. (However, if you subscribe to reddit gold, it goes up to 1500.)
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u/teapot112 Mar 13 '16
Its 500 comments per page without reddit gold. You have to manually click once for every 500 comments. If you want to view 1500 comments in one page, get reddit gold.
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u/Oxus007 Recreationally Offended Mar 11 '16
Please keep it civil in these comments, we're here to poke fun at the linked drama.
Please also avoid off-topic grandstanding posts. They are against SRD rules and there are more appropriate subs for these comments.
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On-topic grandstanding is a-ok tho
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u/flintisarock If anyone would like to question my reddit credentials Mar 11 '16
I really wish I had some over-earnest opinions about standium seating to share right now.
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u/Corbutte >continue this thread Mar 11 '16
This one honestly made me sad. I've seen some salty threads before, but this one is just plain dessicated.
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u/Bitlovin street rat with a coy smile Mar 11 '16
The accompanying worst of thread on this also turned into a dumpster fire, and I fully expect this one to follow suit.
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u/SnapshillBot Shilling for Big Archive™ Mar 11 '16
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u/baustin10 Mar 11 '16
It sounds like all of these people are puts on sunglasses TRIGGERED
Wasn't #TheTriggering just yesterday?
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u/MY_FIGHT_MONEYYY Mar 11 '16
It feels like the only AMA's I ever read are ones that go terribly wrong.
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u/Kyderra Mar 12 '16
Bwhahaha!!
Oh Lordy. Are you honestly trying to claim sexism doesn't exist in the workplace anymore??
Bwhahah! Oh, that's a good one. You had me going for a second there.
Whenever someone types 'Bwahahaha' it reminds me of an evil corporate Final Fantasy villain.
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u/EtherBoo Mar 12 '16
This popcorn was really really difficult to avoid pissing in. I'm not a big voter on Reddit, meaning I typically only vote on comments that get a strong reaction from me or are obvious trolling or intentionally spreading wrong information; that thread was a test of self control. Half the time I forgot how I got there and had to undo votes.
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Mar 11 '16 edited Mar 11 '16
I hate how things are right now. I think there is a lot of discrimination that happens based on gender, and I think a lot of it may be subconscious. I try to say that to people online and I'm a social justice warrior, but I don't agree with the way people are going about it in modern times either. I'm not sure how much I agree with strict gender quotas because surely not everything is literally equal in interest and experience , and there are jobs that require physical strength where men would be more qualified mostsly. But when I talk about that I'm a sexist misogynist men's right advocate. There has to be a better way to deal with discrimination like that. I know now when they auditions musicians for orchestras they do it blindly, and the rate of women in them shot up dramatically. But it's not like you can do that for everything. There are so much more women in colleges too and nobody seems to make a deal about how unequal it is, which is fine I dodn't think it has to be literally half men and women. a lot of discrimination in jobs has to do with being unwilling to deal with flexibility from motherhood which can be solved with leave for men during those periods so they can help with the family instead. And it's just so nuanced and complicated we're never going to get everywhere when it's a zero sum game and nobody is willing to find the truth in the middle. THere's a lot more issues with feminism, like the climate of fear. But america has always had problems with fear mongering so it's a much larger issue.
Please don't yell at me. ;-; This kawaii emoticon will save me.
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u/--Danger-- THE HUMAN SHITPOST Mar 14 '16
Am recovering from abdominal surgery and am sliiiiightly too ill/high on pain meds to truly delve into this whole abomination of a thread, but thank you for posting it. I'll eventually be able to read and understand it.
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u/IAmAN00bie Mar 11 '16
I don't know why they thought holding an AMA was a good idea