http://www.cracked.com/blog/3-shortcuts-to-not-being-terrible-person/
It's essentially the usual Felix Clay vs. whiny desperate manchildren.
Sharva91 wrote:This article is garbage, and not because it isn't true (It DEFINITELY is).
It's because it's just restating the obvious for white knight points. The actual nice guys treat women with respect, respect boundaries and handle rejection. Hell there are some guys that are still assholes but slowly transitioning into maturity and show remorse for their mistakes.
Then there are the assholes who don't care, and will continue to behave as such.
What in these kind of articles helps the situation and/or convinces the latter group? Everyone with half a brain already does the few, obvious things Felix suggested and no one who doesn't gives a damn. How about something that resembles a good article?
I have a question - if Cracked has become such a shitty website run by such a totalitarian regime of hypocritical tyrants, why does everyone keep coming back for more? Furthermore, while I agree that Wong is an insufferable asshole who would obviously benefit from a hard punch to the nose, declaring Clay to be "guilty by association" and therefore offensively unqualified to even make jokes about being a decent human being, much less try to offer any offer any actual advice... seriously? Now that Logan's on the payroll, will we be subjecting him to the same contempt by contamination... or is it only cool to do that sort of thing behind a person's back?
In any case, is this thread going to be an actual discussion of the article's content, or just an excuse to talk shit about how shitty it is to write any kind of article about not being a shitty person? I find it disturbing that most reasonable people will admit that women EVERYWHERE are being harassed and attacked, sometimes even murdered, by misogynist fuckwits, yet any time a man publicly speaks out against it - whether they're trying to be serious or just cracking a joke - they get jumped on by a staggering number of actual "nice guys" and accused of trying to score points... as if the safety and respect of women is some sort of game. It's not! Then again, if you don't rape people and you don't have to worry about being raped (and quite possibly blamed for it afterward) then why on Earth should you be tied to a chair and forced at gunpoint to listen to people preach about it?
Edgar Cabrera wrote:What makes me sad about this is that I totally expected this to come from David "I Have All The Answers To Every Problem In Society Now" Wong, but it came from Felix Clay, the one guy who seemed to carry the spirit of the old Cracked articles with his writing.
CmdrVimes wrote:This isn't really the correct thread for this, but since we seem to be on the subject: I like Cracked.
The word of the day is empathy. You really need to try to see things from the perspective of women, rather than fighting against them to assure them you're not a degenerate scumbag. By and large, women won't think you are a degenerate scumbag until you give them a reason to. How often do you meet people and instantly assume they're monsters until they angrily tell you on Twitter that they're not?
DamianaRaven wrote:I have a question - if Cracked has become such a shitty website run by such a totalitarian regime of hypocritical tyrants, why does everyone keep coming back for more?
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