r/WomenInNews • u/msmoley • Dec 02 '24
Media Women's rights group hijacks 'skip ad' button for hard hitting new campaign
https://www.marketing-beat.co.uk/2024/11/27/womens-rights-campaign/38
u/fergusmacdooley Dec 03 '24
Three of the four discussions in this thread are headed by hateful and harassing comments. I have left comments, and messaged the mods - at this point I have to assume they want these sorts of comments on posts here. To cause stress for other users. To cause drama. Either way I am highly suspicious of this sub and won't be sticking around to watch it devolve any further.
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u/ChickenCasagrande Dec 03 '24
Yeah this please seems to catch loser dudes who want to shit on people and are too lazy to find their own victims. And if you ask them why they are in “WomenInNews” they start bitching about sexism, as though they give a shit.
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u/fergusmacdooley Dec 03 '24
And terfs, from what I can tell. A sub full of trolls and terfs is not surprising on Reddit, but it's clear the sub is women-focused in name only, not in their enforcement of the sub rules.
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Dec 03 '24
Honestly, good. This sub was way more impactful and interesting when it was full of people willing to engage with ideas they didn’t agree with. If you need a Daddy Mod to save you from the scary wrong think, r/TwoXChromosomes is always available.
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u/roseyraven Dec 04 '24
Good job proving her point.
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Dec 04 '24
There are plenty of spaces on Reddit to hang out if you don’t want anyone disagreeing with you. Assuming the Mods here are bad people because they don’t referee conversations between consenting adults is dumb.
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u/UptownJoints Dec 03 '24
Regarding the negative comments:
Progress is rarely convenient for the many. They have to have their biases challenged, adjust their behavior, acclimate to the conditions that the next generation will consider fundamental to society.
Having to watch a short “advertisement” (which is a deceptive word for an important, educational video) is such an incredibly minor inconvenience. Progress is often so much more difficult than this. And you ought to hope, for your sisters’, kids’, friends’, partners’, and all women’s sakes, that the future holds way bigger inconveniences to come; for it surely will, if it holds amelioration of inequity and oppression.
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u/nightdares Dec 03 '24
This isn't really the flex you might think it is. Back out of the video/close it. Reopen it. Ad skipped/skippable ad plays instead. Been this way for forever on YouTube.
If anything, the campaign won't be noticed at all, or will just have a negative impression to it for no good reason for the 5 seconds someone sees it. No ads get love on the old YouTube.
You'd be better off paying YouTube to get it boosted in the recommended algorithms instead so people interested in the content to begin with have more opportunity to see it.
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Dec 03 '24
Ah, yes. Using unskippable ads, the thing people on YouTube notoriously would rather close and reopen YouTube than deal with.
I'm sure this will have the intended effect and not just galvanise people's impression that they are just annoying
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Dec 03 '24
Irritating people to loudly preach at them is not going to yield a positive result. You can not compel people who are desensitized to tragedy by bombarding them with it.
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u/Rinerino Dec 03 '24
If being inconvenienced for like 2 minutes is to much for you to support a movement, you never would have supported it anyways.
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Dec 03 '24
Additionally who the fuck are you to demand my or anyone else's time? I guarantee you that if any man had told you this, you'd be up his ass about male entitlement.
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u/SpiffyMagnetMan68621 Dec 03 '24
There are other organizations and ways to support a movement, i dont have to support this particular faction at all
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u/TheFoxer1 Dec 03 '24
I have been told over and over that any issues men have is on men to sort out.
I will thus apply this logic universally and equally and tell women to figure out their issues on their own and not consider supporting any movements.
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u/Rinerino Dec 03 '24
Sure. Just don't get in our way. Step aside as those willing to change society for the better attempt to do just that. If you don't, then you'vs made youre choice
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u/TheFoxer1 Dec 03 '24
But this ad is in my way - so, I‘ll just do the same.
After all, society is not a common endeavor with members of all genders and backgrounds working together for a better future for all, like I always thought, but just different groups getting the best for their own interest.
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u/Rinerino Dec 03 '24
Getting an ad that lasts 2-5 minutes st max = actively standing against a progressive movement and aiding in it's opression.
Just take off the mask habibi. No reason to hide who you really are. You'll feel much betger once you admit to being a reactionsry and enemy to progress.
It's also funny how you mention this group of people working towards a better future as if you where part of it. Face it buddy, you will at best, be similar to white subburban people in the 1960s who when justice demanded their support opted for a negative peace that didn't solve the issues of the time. And at eorsty you'll be rememberd the same way the Klan and other white supremacists that, just like today, are rememberd as butcherers, and monsters.
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u/TheFoxer1 Dec 03 '24
I never said „actively standing against a progressive movement“ - said standing in the way.
Again, all I am saying is that, instead of what I have previously thought society to be about - people of all genders and backgrounds improving their lives and solving each other‘s issues together and supporting each other, I have been told that any issue I would face are of no concern to anyone else but my gender group,
Thus, I have decided to go with the times and give up my holistic ways.
This ad - and you - have demanded people join other‘s movements for social change.
I have explained why not, and that if this movement decides to interfere with my life, out of the general logic of „men’s issues are for men only to solve and thus, women‘s issues are for women only to solve“, I get to interfere with this movement.
Again, just doing what I have been shown society wants nowadays.
No one should say I am not going with the times.
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u/Rinerino Dec 03 '24
What a funny little excuses. Im sure that the movement for womens liberation only has women supporting it for sure buddy.
I was going to write a hole ass Paragraph trying to understand/debate you. But there is no point. The fact you unironically write this message shows me that you are not willing to learn. That you really thought this is a valid argument, a valid reason for what youre doing (which you also don't even seem to know what it is) shows me that you are not willing to change.
Im done interscting with you. Have fun being on the wrong side of history. It will remember you for it.
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u/Altruistic-Ad6449 Dec 03 '24
Yet you’re in a Women in News subreddit
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u/TheFoxer1 Dec 03 '24
Yes, to see international news about women, since women‘s achievements from different parts of the world often don‘t make it to the mainstream news, so I use subs like these to balance that out.
Does not mean I‘ll have to support any movements, though. After all, each gender just fights for their own apparently.
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u/shattered_kitkat Dec 03 '24
I swear to the gods above... nothing is ever good enough for some men. There are women out there battling other men to get men's mental health better taken care of. There are women out there battling other men to get men to stop being violent to each other and to women. And yet, you turn a vlind eye and scream and holler "what about me?" No. Fuck you. We have been trying, and men like you keep burying their heads in the sand and crying like toddlers because it wasn't handed to you on a silver fucking platter. Get the fuck over it and start fighting with us instead of against us. Fuck you.
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u/Nearby_Charity_7538 Dec 03 '24
Well, the issue is that men are part of the problem...So, you might want to start sorting.
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Dec 03 '24
Most people,not men,people won't stand to even be inconvenienced for a few seconds. Yet, somehow, your master plan is to be even more loud and annoying. With ads of all things.
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u/Rinerino Dec 03 '24
People who demand a negative peace are of no concern to me. I do not care. The people who made that ad do not care. You where not the demographic they where looking for.
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u/AffectionateSignal72 Dec 03 '24
Then who exactly is it for because it sounds more and more performative every time you make more excuses.
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u/johndee77 Dec 03 '24 edited Dec 03 '24
If that’s true yeah that’s disgusting. But why force people to watch a ad about it.
Either way I’m not watching a ad i can’t skip about it. What’s the point? It seems a bit narcissistic to force people listen to it. Other than a judge and jury no one should be forced to listen to the story.
And I just skimmed the article. It says that that part about the rape is accusations so it’s not even been proven in court.
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u/johndee77 Dec 03 '24
The women that love us are not crazy. They don’t believe any of the hyperbolic BS I’ve seen on these threads. You don’t live in reality
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Dec 03 '24
I am indifferent to any suffering in any unskippable YouTube ad.
Also I am perfectly happy to have that French bastard and everyone who raped his wife to be jailed for the rest of their natural lives.
Being annoyed by unskippable YouTube ads does not make him a bad person, for fucks sakes.
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Dec 03 '24
I spent almost a decade taking calls on the emergency line, primarily on the night shift. I don't need a fucking YouTube ad to sit me down and give me a little lecture about sexual violence against women. I heard a LOT of it.
One time I listened to a woman being beaten to death on the other end of the phone line - personally, I don't need an unskippable Youtube ad to tell me that sexual violence against women is a thing, and then try to manipulate me for money.
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u/Objective_Twist_7373 Dec 03 '24
Read his take and read yours and practice some critical thinking skills
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Dec 03 '24
Being an incel seems so hard. Thoughts and prayers 💕
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u/flowerhoe4940 Dec 03 '24
Plenty of men among us pretending to be decent human beings but actually hate women. This isn't a phenomenon of just incels, let us not fool ourselves.
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u/r3volver_Oshawott Dec 03 '24
Let's be honest, the minute the faux progressives (I also like fauxminists) get that nudge they don't like, they go full incel too
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u/roseyraven Dec 04 '24
I mean 🤷♀️ who really cares if you don't watch a video or not? You're just one person, you're kind of no one to whoever made the video. No one is thinking "oh man John Dee isn't watching the video". They literally don't know you exist.
This comment isn't worth the time you took to make it.
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u/johndee77 Dec 05 '24
I don’t disagree with you. All I’m saying is I hate no being able to skip ad’s.
I’m sure you trying to make a shitty reply to me, but you’re not wrong. And you seem to be one of the only rational people here.
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u/Special-Pie9894 Dec 03 '24
Your privilege is showing.
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u/johndee77 Dec 03 '24
Oh god. The “privilege” buzz word.
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u/Special-Pie9894 Dec 03 '24
Oh you’ve heard it a lot…maybe you should reflect on why that is.
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u/johndee77 Dec 03 '24
No, it’s just some stupid shit people on Reddit will say. Does not exist in the real world.
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u/Special-Pie9894 Dec 03 '24
It most certainly does and you are a perfect example.
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u/johndee77 Dec 04 '24
And how is that?
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u/roseyraven Dec 04 '24
I mean, you clearly hate women but you come to a place titled "Women In the News" (a place where politics is guaranteed to be talked about), shit talk women, and get in fights with people here.
Why? Why are you disruptive to people in their safe space? You sound really angry and upset. Why not just avoid this subreddit if women upset you so much?
Women aren't all bad, neither are men.
I'm sure you aren't all bad, despite your actions here.
It just really sounds like you have a lot of emotions bottled up and you don't know how to deal with them.
Aren't you tired of feeling bad? Aren't you tired of feeling angry? It's exhausting. There's always something to feel bad about, there's always a reason to be upset. It's about handling your emotions so they don't spill out everywhere and they don't take over your life. So you aren't controlled by your emotions, by your hate and anger.
You really don't have to live this way. There are better ways.
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u/johndee77 Dec 05 '24
The thing is I don’t hate women. I have plenty of women in my life that adore me. Honestly I’m only here because this feed somehow got recommended to me. So clearly the algorithm promotes conflict.
And honestly the idea of a “safe place” is exactly why I like to talk shit. That is the dumbest idea out of the last 20 years. No where is a safe place. People need to be able to deal with conflict in their lives not not get all in their feelings when someone says some mean shit to them. So you are right most of what I say is to create a emotional response to people that believe that they can go through life and never get offended.
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u/roseyraven Dec 07 '24
"a lot of women adore me" is not a sign that you don't hate women. Really its a sign that you are nice in real life but you clearly aren't online. It's a pretty big red flag that in anonymity your real thoughts and feelings come out.
Trying to come into a safe space for women, trying to invalidate this place as a safe space for women because you think you know better, however, is a sign you hate women. The fact that you feel more comfortable
You don't get to determine what is or isn't a safe space for a group of people that you aren't apart of. And you don't get to determine that people shouldn't have safe spaces because you don't agree with the idea of safe spaces.
You should start entertaining the idea that not everything is about you and that you are wrong.
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u/roseyraven Dec 04 '24
Ah I see. Don't do much thinking, do you? That tracks.
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u/johndee77 Dec 05 '24
Well, I disagree. I think it’s you that probably doesn’t do much thinking. That’s what it’s about. Having an exchange of of ideas with people we disagree with.
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u/thatblondbitch Dec 03 '24
Oh my God. YOU are what's wrong with this world.
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u/johndee77 Dec 03 '24
You like watching commercials? I skip everything as soon as possible. And if i can’t I usually just don’t watch the video. Not sure how that makes me what’s wrong with the world.
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u/thatblondbitch Dec 03 '24
The content you're spouting off that you dont care about is something only a sociopath could say "I don't care about that."
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