[ryanmarsh]

theredpill promotes violence? I've lurked long enough to wonder why people say that. I'm sure you can cherry pick some comments but to say the sub promotes violence? It just doesn't stand up to real life. Most of the subs that people say horrible things about I go seek out to find out the real story and find out the mods might have their work cut out for them but they work hard to stay in the community guidelines. A thankless task for sure.

[BadassFractal]

The worst examples of theredpill are very similar to the worst examples of modern radical feminism. The whole "men/white people must die" contingent you see on tumblr. If you can ignore them and still take feminism seriously, you can ignore the crazies on TRP as well. Let's relax with the double standard.

[jadedhacker]

The reason why people don't take Tumblr seriously is because white males like myself are a socially dominant and often armed plurality of the country. It's also kind of farcical to think of women eliminating men, society would dissolve in a generation, so it's easy to regard this kind of talk as simply sublimated angst that is an exaggerated response to real concerns.

However, when this kind of talk comes from the socially dominant and aforementioned armed folk, it is much more of a serious matter simply because we have a history of actually doing the kinds of violent, enslaving, and oppressive things we claim we'll do.

There's the asymmetry.

[BadassFractal]

I'm not clear what you're trying to get at. That a bunch of keyboard jockeys trying to figure out how to get a date through Internet forum advice will arm themselves, uprise and violently enslave and oppress the populace? What exactly are you afraid will happen?

[jadedhacker]

The argument is a little more subtle than that though I didn't explicate it above. It's that the keyboard jockies provide a base and advocate for politicians that will.

[BadassFractal]

Can you give me an example of redditors looking for dating advice being politically motivated to vote for politicians who are in favor of violence and oppressing women and minorities? Where are you getting this information and what exactly are the facts to back this conjecture?

You're drawing a very tenuous thread between all of these different concepts. It is FUD until there's evidence of this actually happening.

[nailer]

TRP on Reddit is a pickup forum (cough 'sexual strategy'). I don't know anyone saying 'this kind of talk' if you mean armed uprisings or similar. Are you thinking of a different sub?

[nextlevelwizard]

There's no better standard than double standard

[cup-of-tea]

> It's also kind of farcical to think of women eliminating men

If you actually scratch beneath the surface of TRP you'll see that the concern is not "women eliminating men" but men elminating other men and women being complicit in that.