All this Ellen Pao / fatpeoplehate drama...
29 2015-06-11 by Muted_Post-Horn
...is making me miss Jocktober. The wall of Ellen Pao photoshops and fat people on the front of /r/all makes me smile, but it also makes me nostalgic for coke floats and Dennis Falcone photoshops. Anyone else feeling this way?
13 comments
18 kungfuego 2015-06-11
yep. the rate that they have made alternate subs and continue to make more subs is funny
4 Freuds_Nipples 2015-06-11
You say that like the Erock Army isn't still going strong.
HOAGIE IN MY MOUTH COKE FLOATS IN MY CUP
2 shmigshmog 2015-06-11
f-frunkis?
1 NBegovich 2015-06-11
You're getting lazy, OP!
-10 jwg529 2015-06-11
Yes don't buy me gold to support that lady...
2 KingNigglyWiggly 2015-06-11
Honest suggestion, if you want gold for the bonus features, you can get most of them for free by installing Reddit Enhancement Suite.
-6 jwg529 2015-06-11
I don't want gold. I've had it twice already. Don't buy me gold
-19 Pat_Battle_Storage 2015-06-11
I didn't feel it when r/all was just a bunch of replacement fatpeoplehate. That sub deserved what it got—not because it was "anti-SJW" (or whatever), but because it wasn't.
Then I went away for a while and came back and r/all is all Pao pics from r/punchablefaces.
Some good kids there.
-6 rubbishmyjunk 2015-06-11
You know, you're right. It was a total hugbox, and they were full on SJW just minus fat people. Don't you dare make a joke at the expense of someone lower on the privilege ladder than you, lest you receive a tirade of intersectionalist marxist bullshit and then be called fat.
8 mynameispaulsimon 2015-06-11
Not really. I'm guessing neither of you spent much or any time there. Outright homophobia, racism or sexism were often downvoted there. That was because FPH was focused solely on the exceptionalism of healthy sized people, and while everyone there agreed that fat people were disgusting, arguing race and gender politics was a distraction.
Tons of subreddits have a strongly enforced "No off-topic" rule, but when it happens on a subreddit that you don't like it becomes problematic?
2 rubbishmyjunk 2015-06-11
I spent plenty of time there. It was the week before the ban that the baffling SJW side shone through. If there were an archive I could link the thread. It wasn't the bulk, but it was certainly heavy among the moderators. I'm not trying to shit talk FPH, I loved it, it was hilarious when people actually bothered to use their own creativity, but seeing someone who posted a woman joke be unironically lectured on intersectionalism from a good handful of the mods was fucking surprising to say the least.
1 mynameispaulsimon 2015-06-11
Did FPH have SJWs? No doubt. But as long as you weren't fat and hated fat people, differences were put aside or at the very least discussed through the lens of fat hate.
You could be a demi-pan-ethosexual squirrelkin, and while people might think you're absolutely crazy, as long as you were fit you were welcome.
The "SJW" bans I saw were all centred around racism, homophobia, or transphobia aimed at fit people or other users which was a violation of Rule 3: Keep the peace. Attacking anyone on FPH for anything other than being fat was a distraction and removed thusly.
1 rubbishmyjunk 2015-06-11
Their definition of "attack" was too sensitive. A joke is not an attack. Sound familiar? The rhetoric was all the same.
I'm just reporting what I saw as a regular user.
The point is that they were the moderators.
1 rubbishmyjunk 2015-06-11
Their definition of "attack" was too sensitive. A joke is not an attack. Sound familiar? The rhetoric was all the same.
I'm just reporting what I saw as a regular user.
The point is that they were the moderators.