Ugh. It’s the Jailbait subreddit again. If you’ve been following any of the discussions that have recently been swirling around Reddit’s popular subreddit dedicated to the posting of technically-not-child-porn pics of underage girls, you probably ran across the standard Jailbait apologia: The pics there aren’t nude pics, and besides, most of them were originally posted on the internet by the girls themselves. So it’s all good clean fun, I guess.
It’s going to be a little bit harder for the Jailbaiters to use this bullshit argument in the future. A day or so ago, you see, a Jailbaiter calling himself TheContortionist posted a pic of his (alleged) 14-year-old ex-girlfriend’s ass in a thong. Naturally, the regulars demanded more. The OP noted that the only other pics he had of her were nudes.
So literally dozens of the regulars – I counted around 70 in all — begged him to PM the nudes to them. And … apparently he did send some of them the pics, at least according to a r/jailbait moderator with the charming handle I_RAPE_PEOPLE.
I can only hope that some of the requesters were FBI agents.
Here’s a screenshot of the whole disgusting thread (SFW; in an earlier NSFW screenshot posted to Reddit virtually all of the comments you see downvoted here still had net upvotes).
TheContortionist’s post (and the Jailbaiters’ reaction to it) was first brought to the attention of non-pedo Redditors by Me_bender in ShitRedditSays, then brought to the attention of the rest of Reddit by SRS regular HPLovecraft.
Naturally, this being Reddit, the r/jailbait apologists are still insisting that, hey, even though something like 70 people in r/jailbait publicly requested PMs of child porn, this sort of thing is officially frowned upon by the subreddit’s mods, so, you know, not to worry. As CapNRoddy put it:
The existence of r/jailbait does not mean nudes of children. Those are against the rules. Those posters broke the rules.
And then of course there were various iterations of this non-argument, set forth here by im_only_a_dolphin:
You know what I do about /r/jailbait?
I don’t visit it. Bam. Problem solved.
If by “solved” you mean “ignored, because I don’t give a shit about crimes that harm people other than me,” then I guess, yeah, that is “problem solved.”
I’ve been taking these quotes from the sometimes surreal discussion of the issue on the WTF subreddit. That discussion also produced this rather surreal exchange with I_RAPE_PEOPLE, the r/jailbait moderator I mentioned earlier:
Meanwhile, in another discussion of the topic elsewhere on Reddit, voidsong managed to get more than a dozen net upvotes for a comment that attempted to place the blame for the pics in r/jailbait on “daddy’s little angels slutting themselves up and taking pictures in the mirror” (and, of course, their parents).
I can only hope that the authorities are investigating these creeps, and that the Reddit admins are cooperating fully with them.
Betty White is a badass. Also, I still see the kittens! They frolic and mew!
I miss my kitty. 🙁
Poor Dracula. 🙁
Aw. (More hugs for Dracula)
Actually that’s the funniest thing about all the MRA dudes who turn up here to whine about how much we all hate men…do they not notice that there are men in our midst, and that the women here appear to like them? I mean I know they have their whole “mangina” thing, but that’s pretty obviously just about hurt feelings.
Daw, sweater kittens.
And something is wrong with the world when the top results for “sweater kittens” in google are literal breasts and one video of some sphynx cats wearing sweaters. How has some wily internet entrepreneur not seized the day by simply getting two kittens and filming them crawling around inside of a sweater? Think of all that internet money.
Make it two female kittens play-fighting in a sweater. Just think of how you could tag a video like that! Sooo much traffic… XD
Just think of how you could tag a video like that! Sooo much traffic… XD
I just wonder how many people would be angry, and how many would feel a strange mix of disappointment and delight?
These curvy ladies are doing sweater kittens right, but there’s something to be said for a smaller cup size too.
Cute Overload has a whole tag for it.
Everything about that link is amazing. I just adorb’d all the things.
I’m late to the party too often lately >_>
*peers at MRAL*
Recurring Skin Rashes are a party now? Damn, the standards have fallen the last few years. St. W.K. would be disappointed.
Not to worry, Ami, I’m sure he’ll be back tomorrow.
Damn Cute Overload link makes me sad that my cat is now much too big to fit in my shirt.
I am with Orion on the owlslave thing, why libel the poor owls? Everyone is fond of owls, except for mice and shrews and Simon Cowells.
I’m gonna admit here that sorta like MRAL when I was younger I thought vagina’s were kinda gross(as a straight man). I never brought it up or hated women about it or anything but until after I actually had sex a few times and got more comfortable with them I wasn’t a huge fan.
So MRAL cheer up, some day you too can get better. (hell took me till I was 23, though you’ve got the whole hating women thing to deal with too)
Molly Ren:
Kinda. It’s the word “twitch” that does it.
MRAL:
What Rutee said. Also,
1) Slander isn’t generally illegal in the U.S. One can be sued for defamation but must seriously threaten the public peace to be tried for it.
2) Not only is truth a defense to defamation, so is that the defamatory statement isn’t true but has the same effect on the plaintiff’s reputation that the truth does. All that would have to be proven is that the person claiming to have been defamed asked for nude pictures of a 14-year-old. I don’t see a jury gettign too hung up on the vocabulary. I realize you think that your complaints about the high age of consent (16 in Massachusetts) are just you saying what everyone else is thinking, but I’m not convinced that’s the case.
Cassandra:
Laws rarely ban buying or selling; they generally ban distributing and receiving. I suspect it’s partly to relieve prosecutors from having to prove that there was atransfer of money in one direction related to the transfer of contraband in the other, and partly because the badness of distribution is not mitigated by the lack of a profit motive.
“Your Honor, this “jailbait” forum was not tainted by monetary transactions! This child porn exchange was not some crass scheme to make a buck! No, my client distributed nudes of underage girls just for the pure love of being a pedophile!”
*standing ovation from jury, an eagle sheds a lone tear*
According to the Gawker post about this issue, TheContortionist also posted a partially obscured image of said 14 year old performing oral sex (he used Power Puff Girls to cover the top and bottom of the photo — klassy). Any lingering doubt that this forum was passing around child porn is now obliterated. The images weren’t just being shared via PM’s.
“I’m gonna admit here that sorta like MRAL when I was younger I thought vagina’s were kinda gross(as a straight man).”
I am going to be pedantic and repeat myself, but unless you were looking at women with a speculum, you were not looking at a vagina. You were freaked out by the vulva.
I know many people use the wrong word. It is still the wrong word.
They’re pedophiles, not homosexuals, just as it’s not normal heterosexuality to be attracted to 12 year old girls. Further, I don’t think there’s evidence that they actually molest at a higher rate; what lefties like me want is for the church to stop hiding them and aid in their prosecution. I don’t hate them because they had an abuse scandal; I hate them because the role of the church body was to hide and enable that scandal.
Speaking as a self-idendified, if estranged, member of the Roman Catholic Church, this is my view too.
Actually, what I’d like to have seen is not only a not taking part in cover-up (which could have merely been passive), but turning them over to civil authorities as soon as they found out.
Another voice for using correct terminology for female genitalia. And isn’t ‘vulva’ a pretty word? 🙂
I can’t tell if it’s just that the lying is so reflexive he doesn’t notice, or if he has that much reading fail.
NWO: A guy said he had taken pictures of his 14 year old girlfriend (one of those loving, non-exploitative relationships you seem so fond of).
Not a girl doing it, but a man.
But you can’t imagine that. Man = good/oppressed, woman = immoral slut/tyrant.
Yeah, but he was also good at what he did, probably in the top three or four in the world, and (in my opinion) genuinely devoted to his lover. MRAL just gets mad on the Internet. He’s also the kind of person who thinks he can get a rise out of the adults because Swears are Naughty. Spoiler McNoName would kill him with side-eye alone, hands or no hands.
I have a problem with the term “un-acted-on pedophilia”, because reading stories, looking at drawings, or other such things that don’t actually hurt anyone are, strictly speaking, “acting on it”, and I don’t mind them, either.
Okay, I can think of at least 2 characters that the genius jerkass thing applies to… is the guy in question into dudes or into sisters?