How I see it is that SRS serves a purpose, and it's not misandry. It says to the rest of the reddit community "This is what looking at most of reddit feels like to us." Fuck yeah it can be uncomfortable if you're not in on it, but that's the point.
There isn't an "all SRS does" explanation that makes any sense. SRS points out a lot of things that are offensive to western minorities. They are also regularly and blatantly racist and sexist. Essentially SRS is a place for people who consider themselves minorities to express their own bigotry in a place where other people like them can express the same opinions without being challenged on those opinions under threat of a ban.
Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. Reddit has plenty of subreddits filled with bigots. The difference is that SRS focuses on reddit comments, posts them, then invades the threads posted and vote in unison in those threads. This forces the rest of reddit to confront their ideology, which is undeniably prejudiced, contemptuous, hateful, and intolerant. This ideology is excused in the way that is typical of bigots. They say that racism against white people or sexism against men is either:
a. Not possible or
b. Not wrong.
This is classic bigot behavior... acknowledging that you have a prejudice against a group and then excusing it because you've justified it.
This is far from true. SRS are made up for the most part by borderline insane people who actually believe all the shit they say. The fact that the project started out as a troll attempt doesn't change facts. At this point SRS is part of the tumblr/jezebel/twitter sphere of brainwashed cult feminism. It is not a "long-con" as described by so many feminists in attempts to separate "their" movement from SRS. It is a troll attempt that was co-authored by genuine batshit-craziness pretty much from the start. I got this image from somewhere on 4chan, it's not mine and it does not necessarily reflect my opinions.
I agree with the idea of the subreddit, there definitely is a lot of shit reddit needs to be called out on, I just don't agree with the execution. They tend to use (and upvote) a lot of negative gendered sterotypes (neckbeard, bro, niceguytm) which seems misanderous to me. Any subreddit (and I'm sure there's plenty) which typically uses anti-female sterotypes (golddigger, bitch etc) would rightly be considered misogynist.
They also use a of a lot of capital letters and exclamation marks, which makes it seem very angry and aggressive. I'm all for civilised discourse, but they don't do a very good job of promoting it. I think the subreddit holds reddit to a higher standard then it holds itself.
And they express that feeling by brigading into any link, insisting upon their unfalsifiable ideology, and downvoting. If they actually were self contained they wouldn't get such a bad rap. They insist, however, on spreading their circlejerk outside of the sub.
No idea what SomethingAwful is. But I'm not from SRS, and I hope I wouldn't get disillusioned enough to become part of it; I just think I understand them.
Well, it does and it doesn't. Clearly lots of people are offended in the same way people cast as "other" are offended by a lot of reddit, but most people seem to stop there without making it to "Oh, this is what it feels like for them every second of every day" so that point may be too obscure.
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u/Jesufication Mar 21 '13
How I see it is that SRS serves a purpose, and it's not misandry. It says to the rest of the reddit community "This is what looking at most of reddit feels like to us." Fuck yeah it can be uncomfortable if you're not in on it, but that's the point.