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This Is Not Fucking Harmless

lexxercise:

lexxerduglas:

caseymalone:

I love Kickstarter. I think that’s clear to people who know me by now? I love it. There’s a dude named Brad Muir and he works at Double Fine and I love the games they make, so much. But before Kickstarter, every time a Double Fine game came out I was a little worried it would be their last, and I’d have to worry that if people didn’t buy it, who knows what would happen to that studio. Then they found KIckstarter and now they make games and people like me can front load the development cost for them and it is the absolute best arrangement for creative people who want a tool in the exhausting struggle of art + commerce. A friend of mine is taking a month off her job to write a children’s book because of this platform. It’s GREAT. I love it.

The outcome of this is that I spend a lot of time just browsing Kickstarter looking for something cool to either back or crow about online. I don’t really back much - I don’t have a ton of capitol to toss around, and I’m sure the fact that I have a lot of ideas and no money factors into my love of a platform that gives money to people with ideas - but I like to check it out. So tonight, I found THIS fucking thing.

This is a nightmare.

Watching the video, reading the description, it sounds fairly innocent but a little eye-roll inducing. It’s another book where some nerd, desperate to be liked by women (this is not an insult, we are ALL desperate to be liked by someone we want to have sex with) thinks he’s figured out some cheat code or check-list like routine they can run in a bar to make women sleep with them, as if women aren’t people but a series of subroutines or an obstacle course that they can optimize to get their dick wet as fast as possible. And he’s written that advice down! And he’s selling it! To you! You could learn his cheat codes. This is nothing new for the internet. In fact, a large swath of this book was published already on Reddit. What’s new is that he’s crowdfunding it.

And sure, you might think this is sad or dumb or that this guy is just another lonely dude talking to other lonely dudes who’ll head out into the night with their fedoras to failure, right? Not a big deal? Oops, turns out we’re wrong, because here are some excerpts from what he’s already put on Reddit -

”5) Get CLOSE to her, damn it!

To quote Rob Judge, “Personal space is for pussies.” I already told you that the most successful seducers are those who can’t keep their hands off of women. Well you’re not gonna be able to do that if you aren’t in close! ”

“All the greatest seducers in history could not keep their hands off of women. They aggressively escalated physically with every woman they were flirting with. They began touching them immediately, kept great body language and eye contact, and were shameless in their physicality. Even when a girl rejects your advances, she KNOWS that you desire her. That’s hot. It arouses her physically and psychologically.”

“Decide that you’re going to sit in a position where you can rub her leg and back. Physically pick her up and sit her on your lap. Don’t ask for permission. Be dominant. Force her to rebuff your advances.”

“Sex

Pull out your cock and put her hand on it. Remember, she is letting you do this because you have established yourself as a LEADER. Don’t ask for permission, GRAB HER HAND, and put it right on your dick.”

- Source

SO. Now I am no longer rolling my eyes.

This guy is no longer just being weird and creepy on the internet. Now he’s writing a book about how to sexually assault women, and he is using something I believe in (Kickstarter) to ask YOU for money to do it. I am offended as someone who believes in the platform, and more importantly I am offended as someone who believes women shouldn’t be treated this way, and that people who say otherwise CERTAINLY should not profit off saying they should.

This isn’t harmless. People come to these boards because they are scared of being humiliated, and they are saying to the world, “Tell me what to do, because I don’t know what to do.” And this guy has chosen to tell them, “You should be a rapist.”

There’s largely nothing we can do about people saying this shit on a place like Reddit - Reddit’s a mess for another time - but let’s get it off of Kickstarter. The project is funded in 10 hours - and unfortunately a lot of those are sleeping hours - but PLEASE report it to Kickstarter, please tweet @Kickstarter asking them to take it down, and PLEASE do not let something cool be used for the UGLIEST thing imaginable.

The Kickstarter - Report Button is on the bottom of the page

Please Tweet at @Kickstarter

Casey

I’ve reported this and tweeted at KS. I just hope someone on that end will be around to deal with the flood of complaints before the project is funded. Shit like this flies under the radar far too often.

I’ll put this here too, for good measure.

wowowow this is fucking creepy

Via what a bunch of neckbeardy shitnerds

yanagoya:

meandmylittlevoices:

alloutorg:

URGENT: today in Russia, a terrible bill passed in the Russian parliament’s lower house that censors all things considered “gay”. It’s our local partners’ worst nightmare and we need your help.

This vote comes off the back of two brutal anti-gay murders in Russia, and the trial of a major LGBT rights organisation today.

Tell world leaders to STOP the crackdown, add your name:
www.allout.org/russia-attacks

REALLY IMPORTANT

This really is happening, and it’s scary as hell.

Via Flaw in the Design

please help

hauntedtrash:

when i was 15, i developed a large blood clot in my arm which required a lot of operations. none of the operations really went anywhere, unfortunately. even more unfortunately i woke up during one of the procedures, and i am still trying to get over that emotionally.

fastforward seven months after they send me home on blood thinners with the clot still, i go in again because it was causing me too much pain. they operate more, and were using ct scans to check up on it. i objected to them injecting dye into the tube in my right arm, for it leads directly into the clot. they don’t stop and end up forcing me down to inject it without my consent. the process paralyzed my right arm for a long time. it works a little better now, 3 years later, but i am still in extreme amounts of untreated pain.

all of this makes my life extremely hard. i tried going to school but mentally and physically couldn’t handle it. i ended up dropping out my senior year. my mom kicked me out of the house because i’m not going anywhere in life. i’m staying at my grandparents, but i can’t stay here for long.

so, this leaves me in an incredibly hard place. i can’t work because of my physical disability and ptsd. my boyfriend has been incredibly supportive, but we don’t have the funds to be together. he works, he worked two jobs, but he still needs to support himself and a flight from connecticut to alberta is a lot of money; as well as the passport, having enough money when i get there to thrive until i get on disability, a taxi to the airport, etc.

we would both really appreciate if you can donate and/or signal boost this, even a little money helps. i will also be taking commissions if you want to do that, instead. the donation button is on the top of my blog, or you can go here.

thank you so much, even for just reblogging this.