Wait, what?

Haven't seen the news this week?

To be fair, the stream of bullshittery is so vast that it's very easy to miss one specific thing.

That's why I asked lol. The conversation around rape has been pretty active this week in the news from multiple stories.

The guy on the right slapping the freezer:

"This baby can hold so many misogynists!"

I thought you were referring to some dude whining about feminism, but it's actually about rape? I'm with the first guy, I got no clue what you are referring to.

There's been a lot of whining from the manosphere about the Cornell rape case that has been in the news a lot the last two weeks.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/08/us/cornell-jane-doe-threats-swatting

Damn. Did the Tates or some other random ass incel group break containment again? I missed that one among the sea of gestures loosely, but thanks for the warning...

I appreciate your posts, Velma. 🫶

If you don't want to be hated, stop raping and murdering everybody. I mean... come on.

Ah, there's my problem. I tuned out of the manosphere long before I'd even heard it referred to as such.

Thankfully not, it seems. 🥲

Maybe the shipping barrels weren't as an effective solution as we'd hoped?

I mean, who knew that all-natural extreme toxicity isn't a solution to their own anachro-regurge selves. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I’m genuinely happy for you! Protect that peace if you can.

Haven't heard about this until now so this was initially rather confusing. Maybe its a bigger thing in the US.

Definitely bigger here in the US. There was a congressional candidate who was raped while she was campaigning recently as well that's hit the news cycle this week, too.

There's a lot of rape here.

I remember watching some youtube channels around that time who went hard into it over time and they became progressively more off putting to me until I dropped them.

Shame, as I know some actually mentioned real problems faced by the working class initially and that is what I was there for. Then more and more of this anti-feminism bullshit starts appearing for some reason and I lost interest.

You stop hating me first

No. Hate is the default for rapists and murderers.

Also, until you start calling it out among your friends, it's you too

What if I just stop one?

Stop one rape or murder? Well, if you are a rapist and murderer and you stop a rape or a murder, depends. Are you stopping yourself? Someone else? So many questions.

Like, if you stopped someone from murdering the Green River Killer, I'd be like "lame".

If you prevented them from murdering or raping, I'd be like "good job". Even if you were a rapist and murderer.

But, I'd still hate you.

If you've never raped or murdered anybody and you stop someone else from doing so, I'd be like "that dude is alright".

But, I'd probably not hate you. I would find you... tolerable. Maybe.

"What ifs" are endless, it's all very byzantine

Thank you for explaining.

So many of these!

Guess you are part of the problem too. If you don't want to be hated stop wars, genocide, starvation, planetary destruction. I mean... come on.

Misogynists: Feminism is oppressing me.

Sane people: Be honest.

Mysoginists: Society hates men.

Sane people: Be honest.

Mysoginists: I can't get laid.

No, the rapists have been extensively condemned in popular media and person-to-person conversations here.

Probably just velma being velma again...

From very specific people.

Which is impressive given their weight class.

I don’t find that true at all.

Rape would just disappear if I shut up, right?

Oh wait….

This is directly referencing a couple of high profile rape cases in the US that have many, many men feeling defensive and attacking Jane Doe and the other victims.

That’s why Jane Doe has been swatted and is receiving death rights, right? Everyone is super supportive of her?

Yeah.

Cry harder.

Gender relations are a complex and nuanced topic, which means that there are vocla minorities who make it their entire personality to distill these things down to simple memes and argue on the internet about it with each other.

Depends on the context.

Constraining your own urges does not count.

I knew about that, but didn't connect the meme to the Cornell case. The meme has been true for a very long time.

Fiddlesticks

Don't we all know it. 😅

Side note: you were so close to a literate hat trick, just needed a "they're". 😉

Ok.

Same eternal problem: people equal shit and no one can actually do anything about it, but it's not that important really.

Read also: old people on the bench waste their time arguing on what will or will not happen tomorrow and how life is too unpredictable nowadays, but it certainly wasn't back then (it was), grass was greener and sky more blue in their youth (no, it wasn't) etc.

You're going to die alone and lonely

Not everyone on lemmy has to end up like you, dude.

It's very telling that when rapists are criticised, you choose to take that as a personal insult

I've consistently found the biggest barrier to getting laid is patriarchal social structures.

This you?