I have never seen this on reddit, ever, unless you don't understand sarcasm or can't take a joke.
> sexism as the default,
Really? That's funny, because I'm pretty sure there's a preponderance of Internet White Knights on reddit, and I've never seen sexism that went ignored.
> exploitation of women as often as possible.
That's a gross hyperbole. I don't see how reddit 'exploits' women in any way.
> /r/Jailbait was over the line of sexualising children.
/r/jailbait was sexualizing young adults, many of whom were be perfectly legal in their given jurisdiction, many of whom were going out of their way to be sexualized. The moderation of /r/jailbait was exceedingly strict in preventing the sexualization of children.
This comment is an excellent summary of my problems with reddit. I spend way, way more time than I should arguing with people who think that "it's just a joke" is a defense of anything. Or with people who treat the pointing out of sexism as worse than sexism. If you don't think /r/CreepShots was exploitative of women, we have very different opinions on this subject. And finally, you defend /r/jailbait, going as far as to blame the people in the photos.
I hope people upvote you just because you provided such a concise summary of every bad argument used to defend reddit.
"It's just a joke" is a defense of everything. It's a reflection on the human condition - it's how intelligent people cope with the horrors of humanity.
Or do you think we should still be mourning six million Jews? Slavery? Cancer? AIDS? Terrorism?
We're all going to die some day. We're all going to go through some horrible shit before we die. At least some of us can laugh about it.
I'd never been to /r/creepshots, and I'm not blaming anyone with regards to /r/jailbait - I don't know what blame there is to place.
/r/videos and /r/funny often have blatantly racist submissions or posts. Basically, someone will find an example of bad behavior on worldstarhiphop and then a bandwagon will attribute the behavior to race. It's hard to miss.
> /r/jailbait was sexualizing young adults, many of whom were be perfectly legal in their given jurisdiction, many of whom were going out of their way to be sexualized.
There were many pictures in /r/jailbait well below 16, which is the lowest common age of consent in the US (which is where most of the photos seemed to be from). That's far from "young adult".
I have never seen this on reddit, ever, unless you don't understand sarcasm or can't take a joke.
> sexism as the default,
Really? That's funny, because I'm pretty sure there's a preponderance of Internet White Knights on reddit, and I've never seen sexism that went ignored.
> exploitation of women as often as possible.
That's a gross hyperbole. I don't see how reddit 'exploits' women in any way.
> /r/Jailbait was over the line of sexualising children.
/r/jailbait was sexualizing young adults, many of whom were be perfectly legal in their given jurisdiction, many of whom were going out of their way to be sexualized. The moderation of /r/jailbait was exceedingly strict in preventing the sexualization of children.