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The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard - both for starting this, and for covering the previous week. We should get a bot to automate this…)
Aella took one of her shitty twitter surveys and made an (dis)infographic, which made it onto the subreddit /r/moralityscaling, which made it to /r/whowouldcirclejerk where I saw it, so now I’m sharing it with you.
CW for Rape, Transphobia, implicit rape apologia
Crossposted from our subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/1v80j9q/scalers_need_an_intervention/
Ah, that’s probably better for my mental health I guess
never thought id see r/moralityscaling and r/whowouldcirclejerk here ever lol. but christ alive why would you ever conceive of this
Jesus fucking christ none of these people should be having sex
There is some pedophilia in there too.
…also, what the fuck. This is a step backwards, even just reading it. I’m mad.
Who spends time thinking about this? What purpose does it serve? Why are those the examples chosen? What is even going on?
Aella regularly post edgy surveys on sexual and gender related topics on twitter. She probably picked the examples for maximum edginess. And then made an complicated diagram to get more engagement, because engagement farming is one of her big things.
That link is login-walled, how about summarizing it?
As the post was removed: It was a chart of what rape percentage various situations were according to some internet survey.
I advise not reading it but here it is: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G41gJkzW4AA6ThU.jpg?name=orig
Oh, that is because I marked it nsfw. The place I crossposted it from didn’t mark it as such, so here’s that link: https://www.reddit.com/r/whowouldcirclejerk/comments/1v7ph05/scalers_need_an_intervention/
The controversy about the 26-year-old with the 16-year-old wonders if the respondents are all in California which has a very high age of consent. More replies say that is rape than say “a client fails to pay a sex worker” is rape. Her audience ranks it equally with the bodice-ripper scenario (handsome top ravages someone who says no and struggles but really wants it in his or her heart).
Tennessee here: what the chicken-fried fuck is wrong with these people?
I think we’re watching some idiots who are trying to move the overton widow by pulling on it, but they’re mostly succeeding at cutting their hands up really badly.
I’ve think they’ve moved the overton window within their own in-group, but whenever this sort of stuff leaks to a more mainstream audience everyone rightly reacts with an eww or at least a wtf.