Well, it’s not like we don’t laugh at you here too? In fact, I’m sure we laugh much louder at you here. Just listen bro. It’s here.
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that you’re ignoring and discrediting the people/women who don’t post there who say they feel the same way. But hey, as long as it suits your rage agenda, who cares that their opinions are belittled, right?
“Bro”? What’s with the casual misandry?
Anyways, you do you.
Well, I didn’t discredit any of the women nor did I defend Skald’s topic of choice. I said if people didn’t like what he wrote they could choose to ignore him. That’s power we all have. We can choose to lurk, to engage, or to ignore.
ETA what is a rage agenda?
Question for you, Scumpup. What’s the statute of limitations on making fun of Dopers? Let’s say someone here—octopus, for example—is being a pompous windbag. What’s the window of time that I can laugh at him? An hour? A week? A month? It would really help if you could clarify this.
Your compassion for Ducati (not “Ducatti”) is noted and appreciated. The reason we still talk about him is that his tales of two-fisted adventure are HILARIOUS, and good comedy is timeless. We would be happy to show you the same attention, if at some point you say something funny.
Nobody has to stir you up. You make enough asinine comments without any prompting.
Nice of you to step up for them. Do you have a seat at their table too? I t is a puzzlement why you, or anybody who isn’t part of their circle jerk, would want to defend people whose activity consists entirely of shit-talking on others and trolling. The amount of talk there about “socking up” and nudging and winking over “burning a sock” is really quite something. Still, you may be one of those people who hold gossips, shitstirrers, instigators, and trolls in high esteem.
Says the person who knows exactly what is going on [whispers]over there.[/whispers]
Yep. I joined Giraffe Board soon after it opened. I’ve even participated in a few of the “Behind Your Back” threads. If it was just stuff like bitching about mods, which will get you banned if you do it here, it’d be a non-issue. At this point, I lurk from time to time mostly from the old teaching habit of keeping tabs on instigators.
Link to your spreadsheet?
I am SHOCKED to discover there is a shadow board devoted to mocking and complaining about this one. SHOCKED.
I don’t know BigT’s actual living situation, but it’s pretty clear he lives rent free in a bunch of people’s heads. Same with Skald. Life’s too short.
Enjoy,
Steven
Rent free?
More like section 8.
Section 8?
More like a homeless encampment.
Sorry mtgman but that is idiotic. Nobody is haunted by these fuckers like tormented Poe heroes. Your like one of those sophists who hears somebody rake a movie over the coals and says “but apparently it got to you!”
Also with the rape scenarios bugging the shit out of women here, you need to shut up and listen. Your post is very “Now honey, don’t let it get to you.”
I agree. Life is too short to spend 17 years of it wasting time on a message board.
No one forces anyone to read anyone’s posts or threads. If they bother you, put the man on ignore and don’t open his threads.
That’s not a defense of or an attack on anyone, it’s simply a reasonable expectation. I don’t like horror movies. So I don’t watch them.
When I watch movies and they have a rape or torture scene, I either take a brief walk in the theater, or skip past it on my computer. I’ve been known to turn off TV shows or movies and walk away because those things disturb me. Hell, I stopped reading or buying Piers Anthony books because I got sick of all the goddamned pedophilia.
If something bothers you or triggers anxiety, stop exposing yourself to it!
That is a very reasonable response except that it’s not what one would expect in response to a complaint about sexual deviance that makes people uncomfortable.
For example, the late, lamented Clothahump made a lot of statements that were racist, and almost every poster said “stop doing it”. Very few argued on his side for him to keep saying offensive things. Nobody was in there saying, "you just keep saying “wetback” or “nigger”. Weird.
In this case, people are saying this poster can keep saying all the offensive things he wants to because they like the rest of what he does. Crazy idea - what if he just stops doing the offensive things? What is difficult about this? There is no reason at all he can’t craft his hypotheticals without the humiliation porn and all that nonsense. I like his hypotheticals, but I can do without the weird sex shit.
Holy hell people - this shouldn’t be this hard.
Look, dude. I am no SJW. I think feminist extremism does as much harm as sexism. But this mindset is the type that leads to victim blaming. Sure, I’m familiar with Skald’s style, but not everyone else is. So a female poster sees an OP about a hypothetical about interfering in a friend’s relationship. Read read read, so far so good, relationship on the rocks, blah, then suddenly gang rape abuse porn incest wtf-ville. No warning. No indication this is an OP which contains a graphic description of something of an upsetting nature. He just drops it in the middle like it ain’t no thing.
It kind of reminds me of guys who are flashers. They don’t do it because they think the women they flash will fuck them. They get off on the shock and on forcing a woman into an uncomfortable situation that she wants no part of.
The burden should not be on female posters to avoid his threads. It should be on the one making them uncomfortable to begin with. The male posters of this board should be just as against this shit as the women. Don’t blame the victim, blame the perpetrator. Now, I’m not suggesting that anyone who reads a Skald thread is a victim, especially not on the level of someone who’s been assaulted or otherwise victimized in real life, but that sort of mindset is a slippery slope. I can’t think of any other way to explain it than this.
Now, I’m going to run this post past the GB before I submit it.
edit: They approved.
Well, it’s par for the course when it comes to creepy sexual shit–the burden is on the victim to dress the “right” way or not drink “too much” or go to the “wrong places” or “give the wrong idea” rather than putting the onus square on the rapist to NOT RAPE. Then the victims get to go through the third degree about every single choice that “caused” the rape to happen while all the uncomfortable men try like mad bastards to figure out how it was “really” the victim’s fault rather than confronting the fact that our society encourages and enables men to use others to further their own creepy abusive ends.
On a message board it’s up to anyone who’s uncomfortable with the post equivalent of SURPRISE DICK PIC to ignore the poster, get over it, don’t read the thread, manage THEIR experience rather than just acknowledge that it’s better and simpler to get the one creeper to knock that shit off rather than expecting dozens of people to twist themselves into pretzels to avoid the creeper–who has NO boundaries on HIS behavior and can pop up anywhere, any time, with whatever level of creepy he’s in the mood for. But complain about it and it’s all these helpful snotty “suggestions” of how to twist into tighter pretzels to avoid something that’s as easy to prevent as letting the fucking dog out so it doesn’t shit on the floor.
Not standing up to it implies acceptance. You surprise me, Chimera. I really thought you were one of the guys here who understood this. Would you put up with it if the situation were women were abusing and humiliating men? No, nor would other men.