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Collidascope · 21/06/2017 10:36

Does anyone else, in their masochistic or morbidly curious moments, go on there and look through the comments?

There's a "woman are stronger than men" article today with comments that are entirely predictable but still made me furious.

Most claim that men have created and built everything of worth in the world and this proves their superiority. These people genuinely seem to believe the horseshit they're coming out with. I know the Mail is wank but it still appeals to a lot of people. Makes me absolutely despair if this is what most men are secretly thinking.
I feel like we need to start having sex studies in school to explain why everything the kids are learning centres men so we don't just repeat this shit down the generations. Grr.

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slug · 21/06/2017 16:26

To read the Daily Mail you need a reading age of 9. I see no reason to assume the commentators have a comprehension level significantly above that.

I may have pointed this out in the comments occasionally and been deleted Grin

SaskiaRembrandtWasFramed · 21/06/2017 16:07

I've mentioned this before but I'm banned from commenting on the DM website because I offended their readers. It's one of my proudest moments.,

ThymeLord · 21/06/2017 15:53

The trouble is though, although it's easy to dismiss the DM as the chip paper it is, it has an absolutely enormous readership so these people are the majority.

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Collidascope · 21/06/2017 15:49

I think the Independent ones shock me because it's a lefty and, naively, I assume its readers are at least a bit progressive. With the Mail, I generally expect the comments to look like something you'd find daubed in shit at a particularly gruesome crime scene, but it's disappointing to find comments with a little more punctuation but similar content on the Guardian and Independent.

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NoLoveofMine · 21/06/2017 15:43

It worries me as well ThymeLord as I've seen comments similar and even more forceful than those on the DM comments from many boys my age (hopefully they'll grow up one day but some of the misogyny is shocking).

NoLoveofMine · 21/06/2017 15:42

That is a brilliant point LastGirlOnTheLeft. I'd never considered that before and am going to steal it. Or how if you speak of misogyny and male violence the same ones will be outraged and accuse you of "man hating".

ThymeLord · 21/06/2017 15:35

When i'm in a really shit mood I go on the DM website and challenge every twisted misogynistic sexist comment there is. I get many red arrows and usually called a feminazi.

On a serious note, it really does worry me. I seem to say it repeatedly but things are going backwards in terms of womens rights and the way feminism is viewed in general.

thatstoast · 21/06/2017 15:34

Trolling the daily mail sounds like my kind of fun. Guardian is bad too but as pp says they deleted so much it's barely worth looking.

QueenLaBeefah · 21/06/2017 15:29

The absolute worst is the Independent - I don't think their site is moderated at all. The misogyny, racism and homophobia is seriously scary.

terryleather · 21/06/2017 15:20

I used to read btl and comment on the Guardian website (their policy of deleting anything even mildly GC has done it for me so I'm not there so much now) and some of the stuff on there would probably not be out of place in the DM comments section when it comes to anything female focused/feminist.

Dispiriting to the say the least...

MakeItStopNeville · 21/06/2017 15:18

I once made a comment on the DM and it got 8400 red arrows. Now, THAT was a good day!

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Collidascope · 21/06/2017 15:15

Yes, Last. NAMALT doesn't apply when a small minority of men manage to create or discover (or do a Watson and Crick and just pretend to discover) something good. Suddenly every Tom, Dick and Harry who hasn't even grasped how to use full stops or capital letters is claiming those extra IQ points for himself.

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LastGirlOnTheLeft · 21/06/2017 14:47

It never fails to amaze me how men like to claim a share of the credit for other men's inventions, yet take massive offense when you then suggest that if they do that, they should also share the blame for all the destruction and havoc men have caused. They want a share in DaVinci? Take a share in Hitler too, then!

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Collidascope · 21/06/2017 14:30

It's the green arrows that worry me. I guess it's the fervent misogynists who comment but red or green arrowing is easy enough for everyone and these choice comments are upvoted!
I'm sorry, I know I shouldn't inflict them on others just because I'm hooked. Don't read it you don't want.
DJ, I bet your comments went down like a lead balloon. Feminists are even worse than brown people by Mail standards.

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deydododatdodontdeydo · 21/06/2017 13:51

Makes me absolutely despair if this is what most men are secretly thinking.

If most men think like the DM comments men I do despair.
I think (hope) that isn't the case.

DJBaggySmalls · 21/06/2017 12:29

I once had an account to troll them. I used to post comments underneath like 'except Madam Curie' and they'd argue back that a man actually did the work and she got the credit.
I cant tell if they actually believe it, or if its just the massive goady chip on their shoulder. Either way, they hate women.

I once argued that the DM comments section was needed to let men blow off steam and not punch their wives; in the same way they claim porn stops rape. If they could have got hold of me they would have torn me limb from limb.
It seems to do some good though as even some of the men thought the comments went too far.