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Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
I mean, it could be either because (thankfully?) MRAs aren’t a Borg-like united block. Some would definitely not write the dude like that because a man not being macho is bad, but others are MRAs because they think women (feminists! :argh:) refuse to recognize male pain and suffering and reject men who’ve suffered tragedies as weak; the latter sort seems to be who could have written the male rape survivor story, if indeed it’s fake and not real.

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QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

We may as well ban any post where the person acting like an rear end in a top hat in a relationship happens to have a vagina. Screaming FALSE FLAG every time is tiresome, you may as well be yelling that jet fuel can't melt steel beams or that tap water is making frogs gay.

jobson groeth
May 17, 2018

by FactsAreUseless

QuarkJets posted:

We may as well ban any post

:hmmyes:

Xik
Mar 10, 2011

Dinosaur Gum

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My (29F) husband (31M) of 6 months has a secret laptop and won't tell me what he uses it for.

I will pray to the god of relationship posts that this gets an update. I'm curious as poo poo what could be so secretive he thinks he needs different hardware to hide his tracks. It doesn't even make sense.

datajugend
Jan 15, 2010

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:
porn and/or hidden finances

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Xik posted:

I will pray to the god of relationship posts that this gets an update. I'm curious as poo poo what could be so secretive he thinks he needs different hardware to hide his tracks. It doesn't even make sense.

Apparently he has shown her all kinds of bizarre fetish porn to the point that in the comments she's like "no he's totally upfront about his very peculiar tastes"

so it's definitely either child porn or snuff films

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

QuarkJets posted:

Apparently he has shown her all kinds of bizarre fetish porn to the point that in the comments she's like "no he's totally upfront about his very peculiar tastes"

so it's definitely either child porn or snuff films

It's gotta be the former, and I bet he thinks he's protecting her by giving her deniability as a defense against prosecution.

Darkhold
Feb 19, 2011

No Heart❤️
No Soul👻
No Service🙅
Lotta posters in this thread haven't grown up around rednecks and 'cowgirls'.

Doesn't matter if the story is fake this time or not. I've known at least three girls that dumped their boyfriends after they lost a fight because if he can't even protect himself how can he defend her? They'd 100% break up with a boyfriend that was molested and cried about it.

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

CountryMatters posted:

The fear of spooky MRAs writing every story where a woman acts bad in this thread is ridiculous. If you think that story has to be fake then I have doubts you have ever spoken to a male rape survivor, because that sort of reaction is depressingly common and part of the reason they are afraid to talk about it.
The beliefs of some broken little group of lunatics on reddit aren't relevant to the thread and bringing them up all the time is weird.

I guess some posters here feel better, if they can externalize all the bad things and simply write them off as fiction.

Cop friends have some pretty wild stories to tell.

QuarkJets
Sep 8, 2008

Darkhold posted:

Lotta posters in this thread haven't grown up around rednecks and 'cowgirls'.

Doesn't matter if the story is fake this time or not. I've known at least three girls that dumped their boyfriends after they lost a fight because if he can't even protect himself how can he defend her? They'd 100% break up with a boyfriend that was molested and cried about it.

Seriously, listen to this person. There are lots and lots of awful people out there, you don't have to assume that people are just making them up

cock hero flux
Apr 17, 2011



Xik posted:

I will pray to the god of relationship posts that this gets an update. I'm curious as poo poo what could be so secretive he thinks he needs different hardware to hide his tracks. It doesn't even make sense.

it got locked and wiped, which is the opposite of an update

i guess we'll never know what kind of secret CIA assassin this guy was, or how much child porn was on his secret spy laptop

probably a lot, though

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!
Secret CIA child assassin

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

QuarkJets posted:

Apparently he has shown her all kinds of bizarre fetish porn to the point that in the comments she's like "no he's totally upfront about his very peculiar tastes"

so it's definitely either child porn or snuff films

Darknet drugs buying.

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

Power Khan posted:

I guess some posters here feel better, if they can externalize all the bad things and simply write them off as fiction.

Cop friends have some pretty wild stories to tell.

Why the gently caress would anyone be friends with a cop?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.

Pirate Radar posted:

Secret CIA child assassin

I mean that's literally a thing, and people get mad when you point out their war crimes in congress

LGD
Sep 25, 2004

QuarkJets posted:

We may as well ban any post where the person acting like an rear end in a top hat in a relationship happens to have a vagina. Screaming FALSE FLAG every time is tiresome, you may as well be yelling that jet fuel can't melt steel beams or that tap water is making frogs gay.

seriously, it is beyond incredibly tiresome at this point


e: like there is nothing remotely implausible about that story, but we still have multiple people questioning its validity and openly wondering whether its part of the Great MRA Conspiracy that apparently writes >40% of r/relationships posts purely for propaganda reasons

LGD fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Feb 15, 2019

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
i drink tap water though :ohdear:

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

QuarkJets posted:

We may as well ban any post where the person acting like an rear end in a top hat in a relationship happens to have a vagina. Screaming FALSE FLAG every time is tiresome, you may as well be yelling that jet fuel can't melt steel beams or that tap water is making frogs gay.

poo poo's on the milder scale of crappy reactions you'll get if you ever talk about poo poo that happened to you, well behind clever with-it geniuses telling everyone you made it up or that getting molested as a kid means you caught the pedos and are probably a diddler yourself. There's a definite type out there whose first instinct on seeing someone down in any way is to kick, and they get plenty of representation itt


Biplane posted:

Why the gently caress would anyone be friends with a cop?

bitch you want to be enemies with a cop???

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot
No opinion on the story, but lol at the people who don't think reddit is chock-full off MRA types who write this poo poo all day to satisfy some fantasy / make propaganda. Internet posting warriors are a well known cultural phenomenon at this point and Reddit is ground zero for the women-hating kind.

CheesyDog
Jul 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Biomute posted:

No opinion on the story, but lol at the people who don't think reddit is chock-full off MRA types who write this poo poo all day to satisfy some fantasy / make propaganda. Internet posting warriors are a well known cultural phenomenon at this point and Reddit is ground zero for the women-hating kind.

It's not that they aren't there it's that their outlook is inherently incapable of nuance and thus their screeds are immediately identifiable by the lack of restraint

Blade Runner
Aug 14, 2015

Biomute posted:

No opinion on the story, but lol at the people who don't think reddit is chock-full off MRA types who write this poo poo all day to satisfy some fantasy / make propaganda. Internet posting warriors are a well known cultural phenomenon at this point and Reddit is ground zero for the women-hating kind.

I mean whatever you say, but coming in literally any time a woman does anything bad or is portrayed in a slightly negative light to say "Nope, obviously didn't happen it's impossible" even when the story is completely plausible and doesn't at all align with a bunch of MRA talking points is dumb as poo poo

Like, if you're going into 'Well okay, maybe it doesn't fit their philosophy, but it could still be fake. written by some rogue MRA who doesn't share.." you're just contorting yourself into a pretzel shape to convince yourself a woman has not done a bad thing

The Lone Badger
Sep 24, 2007

If it had been an MRA troll the words 'cuck' 'beta' and 'soy' would each have appeared at least twice.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

cool thanks for alerting us to Reddit's extremely secret misogyny and how the idea that getting raped is a big deal was just a lie made up by *checks notes* mras

Pirate Radar
Apr 18, 2008

You're not my Ruthie!
You're not my Debbie!
You're not my Sherry!

Ghost Leviathan posted:

I mean that's literally a thing, and people get mad when you point out their war crimes in congress

Yeah as I was typing that I thought to myself “well, not like secret secret”

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Literally that chick's "well women get raped all the time so it's NBD for them but it's impossible for a real man to get raped" but smugger and trying to pass itself off as anti-mysogynist, somehow

Like an ouborous of human poo poo

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

A Wizard of Goatse posted:



bitch you want to be enemies with a cop???

Cops are everyones enemies motherfucker

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot

Blade Runner posted:

I mean whatever you say, but coming in literally any time a woman does anything bad or is portrayed in a slightly negative light to say "Nope, obviously didn't happen it's impossible" even when the story is completely plausible and doesn't at all align with a bunch of MRA talking points is dumb as poo poo

Like, if you're going into 'Well okay, maybe it doesn't fit their philosophy, but it could still be fake. written by some rogue MRA who doesn't share.." you're just contorting yourself into a pretzel shape to convince yourself a woman has not done a bad thing

I called BS on like one story 5 pages back and you lost your poo poo; tell us more about your passion for depictions of lovely women.

Blade Runner
Aug 14, 2015

Biomute posted:

I called BS on like one story 5 pages back and you lost your poo poo; tell us more about your passion for depictions of lovely women.

I got annoyed at you coming in out of nowhere after never having posted in the thread to do a low effort shitpost saying "uh yeah probably not real" to a completely plausible post for no reason but that a woman was bad in it

There's always the smug stupidity about "Oh, you don't think it's fake? heh, guess we know who the misogynist is......" when this comes up, but this whole thing is lovely in general, and literally every time a story depicts a woman doing something wrong you can be 100% completely sure someone is gonna come in and say it's fake, and then this dumbass derail is gonna happen

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot

Blade Runner posted:

I got annoyed at you coming in out of nowhere after never having posted in the thread to do a low effort shitpost saying "uh yeah probably not real" to a completely plausible post for no reason but that a woman was bad in it

Yeah, you're right, I should have sought your permission before posting, will get right on that. Dude, plenty of these stories get called out as fake. I have not seen you lose your mind over people calling out obvious erotica posts. Maybe just chill?

thotsky fucked around with this message at 14:30 on Feb 15, 2019

CheesyDog
Jul 4, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
r/legaladvice
Fragrance free going too far?
u/get_off_my_planet

quote:

I work in a fragrance free office in Montana, I have only been using the laundry soap and shampoo/conditioner provided by my employer for 5+ months. I don’t wear perfume or have incense or anything in my home, however she says she can still smell laundry soap on me and has threatened to fire me for not complying. How strict is fragrance free policies, is there anything I can do as I have been complying with all the rules set. I am currently looking for a new job as I can’t afford to be fired for something completely out of my control. My question I guess is how serious is it and is there any recourse I can take if I get fired even though I’ve done everything asked of me?

Edit: It’s a small business that does online retail I only have 3 co-workers. Also I forgot to mention that she had me buy clothes (they did pay) to keep there and when she told me I still smelled yesterday I was asked to keep underwear there as well, just to be sure. Wish me luck finding a new job

TehRedWheelbarrow
Mar 16, 2011



Fan of Britches
:sigh:

i think we should be nice

and fragrance allergy people should be in spacesuits.

Nice piece of fish
Jan 29, 2008

Ultra Carp

Blade Runner posted:

I got annoyed at you coming in out of nowhere after never having posted in the thread to do a low effort shitpost saying "uh yeah probably not real" to a completely plausible post for no reason but that a woman was bad in it

There's always the smug stupidity about "Oh, you don't think it's fake? heh, guess we know who the misogynist is......" when this comes up, but this whole thing is lovely in general, and literally every time a story depicts a woman doing something wrong you can be 100% completely sure someone is gonna come in and say it's fake, and then this dumbass derail is gonna happen

Why is regular posting in the thread some sort of benchmark of quality? Is this thread intended to be some injoke fantasy land thing where posters can't express doubt that some of the obviously poo poo that didn't happen stories are in fact not realistic?

It's the internet, why wouldn't you assume everything is a lie? In fact, the last place I'd whiteknight would be reddit, but you do you.

Personally I find reading hosed up stories fun so if this thread is going to be fantasy storytime I'll happily read along. But for god's sake leave posting about posting alone, if doubt bothers you so much then try and ignore it instead of inventing reasons for people being bad for disbelieving stories on the internet.

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

Stop calling fake on stories. Buncha wet blankets and fun killers in this thread.

Edit: rape isn’t a joke.

Dazerbeams fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Feb 15, 2019

Anne Whateley
Feb 11, 2007
:unsmith: i like nice words
Sorry someone ruined the fun you were having reading about the traumatized raped man

Dazerbeams
Jul 8, 2009

I knew someone was going to comment. Seriously though, everything posted in this thread has the potential to be made up bullshit so if you call out one you might as well call them all out. Pete is as real or fake as every other story.

Blade Runner
Aug 14, 2015

Biomute posted:

Yeah, you're right, I should have saught your permission before posting, will get right on that. Dude, plenty of these stories get called out as fake. I have not seen you lose your mind over people calling out obvious erotica posts. Maybe just chill?

I generally get annoyed at people who post "Ehhh, prolly fake" unless it's blatantly something that obviously didn't happen like some weird Not Always Right customer story where they immediately got promoted for punching a customer in the face or something


Nice piece of fish posted:

Why is regular posting in the thread some sort of benchmark of quality? Is this thread intended to be some injoke fantasy land thing where posters can't express doubt that some of the obviously poo poo that didn't happen stories are in fact not realistic?

It's the internet, why wouldn't you assume everything is a lie? In fact, the last place I'd whiteknight would be reddit, but you do you.

Personally I find reading hosed up stories fun so if this thread is going to be fantasy storytime I'll happily read along. But for god's sake leave posting about posting alone, if doubt bothers you so much then try and ignore it instead of inventing reasons for people being bad for disbelieving stories on the internet.

It's an annoying thing that constantly causes a dumb derail for nothing added to the thread honestly, like what discussion can you possibly have over it beyond "This is fake." "What are you talking about there's nothing that makes it seem fake at all" "Pfff wow yeah you would think that" repeated for five pages

There's an obvious turnaround here where even if you do think it's fake and assume everything is a lie, why do you have to be the one to come in and say "Yeah, fake! I can tell, not real." instead of just ignoring it like you think other posters should do

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot
Reading this thread I quite enjoy the calling out of certain posts; the thread makes fun of the stories on r/relationships, but inherently it also makes fun of reddit itself, the quality of the feedback people give and the ridiculous trends one sees, like the porn, the overprotective gamers, and indeed the misogyny. If you just want the posts why not read the subreddit itself?

Power Khan
Aug 20, 2011

by Fritz the Horse

Biplane posted:

Why the gently caress would anyone be friends with a cop?

a.) Not in the US
b.)They can make your tickets disappear

Antivehicular
Dec 30, 2011


I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving And something has got to give

Wait, a fragrance-free office that issues you pre-approved hygiene products, instead of just saying "use unscented detergent and don't cover yourself in body spray?" Is this a thing? If my job gave me soap and shampoo, I'd assume I just loving stank, not anything about office policy.

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Blade Runner
Aug 14, 2015

Biomute posted:

Reading this thread I quite enjoy the calling out of certain posts; the thread makes fun of the stories on r/relationships, but inherently it also makes fun of reddit itself, the quality of the feedback people give and the ridiculous trends one sees, like the porn, the overprotective gamers, and indeed the misogyny. If you just want the posts why not read the subreddit itself?

You're not 'calling the post out' you're just insisting, conspiratorially, that it can't possibly be real for pretty much no reason

If the aim and the desire is to talk about posts, this isn't really conducive to it at all, because we have no way of possibly ever confirming anything being true or fake so it's an utterly meaningless statement

There's no real reason to think it's fake anyway, so how exactly are you calling it out

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