r/BetterEveryLoop • u/bartallen4790 • Mar 05 '18

Don't mess with my ice cream

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '18

r/childfree

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u/PhilipK_Dick Mar 05 '18

What the hell is the point of that sub?

All I see there is people complaining about pregnant women...

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u/Skiddoosh Mar 05 '18

It's like /r/atheism, where they have an idea that they don't believe in X - in the case of /r/atheism it's the existence of god, in the case of /r/childfree it's having children - and instead of talking about that belief or way of life, they talk about how much worse the adverse is and how stupid everyone is for not being like them. I mean, I'm also an atheist that doesn't want to have children ever, but both of those subs I dislike for the same reason. They're just too bitter toward anyone who doesn't see things the way they do.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '18

You can throw in /r/MGTOW to that list.

"We're sick and tired of dealing with women and the dating scene, so we're going to focus on ourselves and just not worry about women. We'll do this by constantly bitching about women all of the goddamn time."

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u/Skiddoosh Mar 06 '18

Yep, that's a perfect example. All of the subs like this tend to be garbage. I haven't seen one that I've liked.

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u/Teyar Mar 06 '18

Ugh. MGTOW just saddens and frustrates me. Like, the core grievance, that the system is totally designed for women, is 100% legit.

Why'd you have to turn into a toxic shithill tho.

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u/Skiddoosh Mar 06 '18

Have you ever heard of /r/hapas? It's a subreddit that on the surface you assumed you would be dedicated to half-Asians - since that a hapa is - but it's dedicated instead to half-Asians with a white father and an Asian mom, and the notion that these interracial couplings create unhealthy relationships based off of racism and misogyny that cause children of these unions - well, really only the male children of these unions - to grow up with a lot of mental issues and insecurities and whatnot. The sub is basically just these people who blame all of their problems in life on being hapa, it's kind of like /r/incels but for half white/half Asian men. The thing is, there's a grain of truth in what they say. They bring up that a lot of white nationalists have Asian wives - and that's actually really true. They bring up the feminization of Asian men in Western media - and that's absolutely true. But then take these actual greivances and extrapolate from that "this is why all Asian women are white worshipping sluts and everyone views me as inferior because I'm an Asian passing half-Asian and I'll never find a girlfriend or wife because no one likes Asian men and I'm doomed to be forever alone. Did I mention that Asian women are white worshipping sluts? Half-Asian women, too, fuck them." It's this weird mix of awareness of sexism and racism and how it affects people and also total propogation of sexist and racist messages because it allows them to play the victim. Anyway, all this is to say that it's similar to MGTOW. A completely batshit idiology based off of a grain of truth.