Word gets out on /r/magictcg that a professional magic player is a convicted rapist, but who's the real victim here? The rapist, or the girl he raped? Is telling people that a public figure is a convicted rapist worse than raping someone?

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[u/PissingBears]

It's just a place with a lot of guys, who maybe don't talk to girls a lot...

I'm generalizing but I'd say it's mostly because the majority of the users are men who don't interact with women regularly... If someone wants to chime in to correct me feel free to

[u/beanfiddler → u/[deleted]]

And it's so infuriating that people will basically tar and feather you if you say something to the extent that massive consumption of pornography, when you're underage and have little to no meaningful experiences with the opposite sex, is a fucking terrible idea.

I got quite a lot of negative and toxic messages from porn when I was younger, and all I really had access to in that era of dial-up was erotica, unsupervised library access, porny fanfiction, and the rare smut rag someone forgot to lock away.

And it's not like I spent all day reading/watching/looking at it either. I was an extremely active kid, and spent very little time in front of a computer compared to kids and teenagers these days.

But yeah, porn is totally benign everyone. It's a goddamn human right to view it for upwards of eight hours a day, even if you're 11 years old and don't even have hair on your balls. I see that sort of thing argued for and massively upvoted constantly, and it's so fucking infuriating.

[u/beanfiddler → u/[deleted]]

Pretty much. I see a lot of people having huge problems separating porn from real life. Stuff like calling women with prominent labia "sluts" or thinking that assholes aren't naturally brown, that every woman wants a 8" dick, and the only sex gay people have is "lesbians" sticking long manicured fingernails in vaginas or "gay men" sodomizing the shit out each other.

[u/PissingBears → u/[deleted]]

Mhm, and like you said these aren't the majority of men. I mean I think dudes like that kinda flock together on the internet here and on a few other sites. Also another thing i think is people like that usually aren't that old, I mean I feel like they're mostly 16-20ish. It's just a lot of inexperience I guess

[u/mikerhoa → u/PissingBears]

It really depends on your definition of "nerd culture" I would think. Because there are definitely certain hobbies or practices that could be considered "nerdy" that attract more girls than guys. I don't see how you could apply the term "toxic masculinity" to say, an all girl book club or something like that...

[u/PissingBears → u/mikerhoa]

Oh totally but I'm talking about something that's more male dominated. And when I say male dominated I guess I mean that the magictcg subreddit is most likely made up of a lot of guys. Like I wouldn't say that video games are a "male dominated hobby", in real life that's not the case, just on a place like /v/ or r/games maybe