Why do redditors find it OK to be fiercely misogynist in their comments?

I posted this just a minute ago on reddit. I expect most comments in response will be of a crude sexist nature. People post really thought provoking questions and so often they are met with immature minds. sad reddit. I'm looking forward to seeing how redditors respond to this one.

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turns out I'm right. This askreddit was posted just a few minutes ago and low and behold, all the comments are sadly degrading. Why can't they engage in a mindful discussion? If they do something, especially repeatedly, shouldn't they be able to justify it...

yargh frustration ensues.

edit: after reading through many of the 1200+ comments I've learned a few things about men. Well summed up in the following comment:

You really don't understand men. We pretty much worship women throughout the day and try to keep you happy. And if we need a place of anonymity to let it all out, then damnit we're having one!

or maybe I just want to believe it so I will.

Conversation with Tosh via Gmail Chat

Look out Yale! these two cunt punching stackblocking bitches are applying and ready to enroll! Accept or be prepared to be stackblocked and cuntpunched.
<3,
lanky brown supremacist and shortai clementine
xoxo

me: i look at grad schools when im bored

in anthropology!

toshnaz: yay!

me: environmental anthro actually :o) so when i grow up i can be just like you!

toshnaz: omg yay!

lets go together!!

me: ya!!

Washington state has a good program, and University of British Columbia may too

i wanna live in canada

toshnaz: yea iheard!!!

they look cool

porland has one and montana

yale is my number one tho

me: not many schools have environmental anthro

toshnaz: they have a increible program

me: ya i looked at their site yesterday

lets apply!

toshnaz: haha the require min og 4 yr work experience in the field tho

and gnarly GREs

i got 1 month of expierence couple more to go haha

me: yep. we can do work experience, but omg gre's

scarrry

we'll just do lots of brain drugs so we can do really well

toshnaz: yeah some schools dont take them..soo im looking for htose

me: ya let me know.

toshnaz: haha fo sho

me: i hate those things. theyre so dumn

haha i spelled dumb "dumn"

haha. oh irony.

toshnaz: im horrible!

i took practice tests.. BAD

so hard

me: ya. to be expected. im so bad at standarized tests

sorry IM NOT FUCKING STANDARD

im EXCEPTIONAL

booya

toshnaz: haha word!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im alternative..

haha

montessori schools didnt prepare me for standard

i stackblocks bitches

Sent at 4:50 PM on Tuesday

me: i crawl between their legs and cunt punch them

toshnaz: hahhahahahahf'eadglk.jda

god im so excited to see you

Sent at 5:00 PM on Tuesday

Two new songs

I would say "for your listening pleasure," but these songs are so premature and need work. I'm only putting these here so my musically inclined friends near and far can listen to what i've got so far and add their talents. a splash of horns here, some dirty bass there, jazzy percussion everywhere! woooo! then it'll be for your listening pleasure. until then, enjoy the early stages of two musical pieces by yours truly.

embryonic flabberghast

I had this crazy dream that i was born from a giant furry vaginalistic egg to join a cult of naked fairy forest freaks who live at gus van sants house and mt tabor in Oregon. then we found this magical bubble being. the human-bubble entity looked a lot like wayne coyne from the flaming lips...enchanted by this human-bubble entity we praised and paraded him only to discover he is only a man. so we ripped his clothes off and shoved him back in the giant vag.

there may have been a camera guy there, and a light guy. And i vaguely recall the hum of generators. And i could have sworn gus van sant was standing aside gawking. how rude.

i swear this dream was two days long. life is strange.

Portland Town

A Visceral Update from Portland



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Well, I've made it. After an incredible trip rafting down the Klamath, we arrived in Portland in good health and glowing spirits. The river trip was medicine. Time in the wild always is...

Rolling into Portland, with Fleetwood Mac and CSNY playing in the ghetto-blasta (my car), I became pretty overwhelmed. The transition from wildness to industrialness was too fast. Becoming enveloped in a familiar feeling of uprootedness, I had to shed some tears.

We pull up to our new home to see its beauty and character. "Incredible. Unbelievabe," we thought. "This is ours!?! Holy Molé!" The house is called The Temple, because it used to be a house full of priestesses (one of whom still comes around regularly and I am very excited to get to know her). It has an epic cob tea house and huge garden. I've been spending the last two days taking care of it. I am soooo excited to finally have my own garden!!!! We have too much kale. there's a bunch of squash, cherry trees, fig trees, holly tree, herbs. This space is having a profound impact on me already. Every day I've been waking up, excited to work on the land, do creative projects, design, yatta yatta.

Downside: no shower. seven people, one tub. we'll see how that goes....

I am also paying sooooo little to live here. WTF.

So even though Portland is a big city, I realized very quickly, within 16 hours of being here, how small it actually is. The community is very tight knit and have more connections around than I thought I did. I made friends really easily but I think the universe is working some magic...meetings have been way too serendipidous to be coincidences.

Feeling healthy and alive. Missing the wilderness. It's summer time so what the fuck am i doing in the city? But hey, this place is vibrant and wild in its own ways, and I definitely am planning on some backpacking trips around. If anyone knows of any wilderness areas (In OR or WA) I should visit while i'm here, let me know. I only have three months before its too wet for backpacking.

I'll post some photos when my computer starts responding to my camera.

Saude!

Wade Davis

cultural anthropologist and ethnobotanist (focus in plants with psychoactive/psychedelic properties). Kate told me to watch this TED talk he gave:

on preserving cultural diversity (particularly for indigenous cultures) as we move closer toward cultural hegemony. I was inspired and did a quick google search of this dude. He's totally awesome. Here's a radio interview with him:
http://cdn1.libsyn.com/wotu/WadeDavis64k.mp3?nvb=20090527172914&nva=20090528173914&t=0687242eca9d958c30bca

on ZOMBIES (oooooooooo) in haiti. Zombies = people who are reported dead and then come back to the realm of the living days or even decades later. His research is pretty radical because he really honors all the various ways of knowing that do not use imperical science to back it up, but looks for that science in order to (I think from what I pick up on this guys character) validate these cultures' ways of living and to put all those paying attention in a state of shock and awe.

On my mind...

Best grilled cheez in coachella valley.
So i rarely use this blog as a space to express myself. which is dumb, because every space for expression should be utilized. I don't know if anyone actually reads it, except dustin (shoutout to d!! waddup yo?!). And considering there is a link to it in my emails, i'm sure people at least check it out once.
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so anyways, i'm realizing that this is feeling a lot better than writing in a journal. sometimes i think its pointless to write to myself because i tend to write down experiences and thoughts in a really abreviated manner since i know what i think and have a descent memory. I really enjoy writing and recieving letters to and from my friend Sound. If you don't have a friend to snail mail with, I highly recomend initiating that because it feels so good.

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i was just about to write "so anyways" again. I should find other phrases to segway. hehe my sun is in cancer and my moon is in pisces. which makes me very emotional. the full moon tomorrow is in pisces and i am on my moon. sorry if that is TMI but i'm pretty excited about it.
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I am feeling...EUPHORIC. i had an amazing time with my friends last night. ate a good meal at the pennsylvania house where there was much tequila drinking with old and new friends. It was awesome taking shots with dickie and sarah cuz we're all moving up to Portland together and will be living in a phat house with a garden and maybe some chickens (i hope i hope!). Then we headed to the crepe place around the corner. i love being so close to destinations you can just walk. don't gotta worry about driving, or even locking up a bike. had a wonderful time dancing to Oso (great band from SB, check 'em out if they're in your town-singer plays guitar while riding a unicycle. woo!). Got sufficiently drunk and bought a sean hayes ticket. talked to dickie and pearl about getting into fire dancing.
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i really want to to dance poi. i am going to. and i am not going to flake out when it gets challenging. there. i said it to the universe, now i have to make good on that commitment. then went back to the pennsylvania house, snuck up stairs and passed out in kates bed. haha. didn't even plan on sleeping there, just taking a rest from the party down stairs. next thing i know im awake next to kate and three other people in the room. I noticed the sky was blue through the moon roof, which made me very excited to start my day since we havn't had a sunny morning in a while. and by that i mean about a week and a half maybe. so anyways, i go downstairs and mason is making coffee. mmmm coffeeeeeee...mmmmmhh. drank that, took a stroll down penn ave, mug in hand, then got on my bike and rode home. at this point its 7:30 am, i've been up for a while and feeling fucking fantastic.
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so i get home, put on some tunes on my large jbl speakers (ya, they're the shit. i will never have a shitty sound system again. i simply refuse.). so i do something active for once and take a bike ride east. i had no destination. but the breeze felt wonderful. perfect temperature. I made my way to new brighton state park and beach, which i had never been to or even known of. took a dip in the ocean without any bottoms on. good thing that beach was almost deserted. i sat in the water for quite a while, surprised at how not cold (i wouldn't say warm) the water was. it was comfortable. the motion of waves make me feel like i'm in a batch of swishing jello. now you understand my euphoria. once i wasn't alone anymore i rode back west. marveled at the ukulyptus and how its just taking over. smiled at the cypress.
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trick: set your back against the truck of a cypress tree. it will realign your energy, absorb bad energy and fill you with positive energy. then i made an awesome breakfast. eggs, quinoa, veggies, tortillas, veganaise! and homemade salsa (i love my cuisinart). you know, the usual.
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so to sound like even more of a hippie let me tell you what i've been thinking about doing after i graduate. move on to a farm. get myself paid for. trade work on farm for rent and food. i'm hoping to move on to the property my good friend dave (shout out dave! much love!) is getting, on highland. so i'll still be in town. i don't want to leave SC yet. i fucking love it here. riding my bike today i was like "ya, i'll probably raise kid(s) here."
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during this time on the farm i will become master of poi, aerial dancing, and maybe hoola hooping. i just accidently typed "holla" hooping. i don't know what that is, but i'm gonna pursue it and make it awesome. and maybe crocheting so i can make hats for the hippie friends i make when i go on tour with phish. haha ok maybe i'm jumping the gun, but that would be cool to do at least once. I will take my new skills and be the happiest hippie in the world as i dance and perform miracles. at some point i will finally learn how to do a good hand stand.
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also at some point, maybe one to 3 years after graduating i'll head to south america. i am feeling the pull to argentina (where my favorite girlies, maga and tosh, will be living), chile, peru and brasil. i'll probably grow food there and visit eco villages. type in "eco truly park" in google. its pretty awesome looking, architecturally. i also want to go to europe. maybe bike tour with my ukulele.
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neoliberalism sucks.
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not looking forward to all the death and destruction that will accompany the collapse of the global economy, but i hope we can build something beautiful for all of us to live with happy bellies. can we just accept that we wont be rich but we'll be happy. everyone will eat- instead of a few deusch-bag-fuckos hording all the wealth and distributing food in the most fucktarded way. morons. grow a fucking brain. {dustin is probably reading this, thinking of something really smart to say to me on the topic. but before you even start, let me just say im standing my gorund on this one! because i'm stubborn like that. and btw dustin, youre the shit:o)}

coachella was fucking rad this year. this was my fifth year. I went with an awesome attitude which definitely came back to me the whole weekend, feeding itself. manifested amazing friends (who i'm seeing tonight!) danced while my spirit connected to other dimensions. you know, had a blast in short.
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thats all for now, its beautiful out. i feel a nap in the sun coming on. i am not going to read this over. if you've made it this far, i commend you. and thank you for caring about my life. i feel so good. i hope it lasts for ever. it wont. because everything is temporary. but at least i can manage to smile throughout almost anything.
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much love to you!! spread good vibes. go out of your way to be nice to people (even strangers) today. and tomorrow. and the next. if you want something, put it out there. you'll get it. call your parents and touch people. also if you havn't caught on to this trend yet, grow some food. oh ya, and use google reader. PEACE


oh ya, and i'm playing ukulele at cafe pergs tonight during louise's art opening. that should be cool. i like to perform for my friends.