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.
Somehow, I think the concept of a bisexual married person would blow Trollboy’s mind into the stratosphere…
I think what derailed it was Delta saying “Oh yeah!? Feminists seduce young women to lesbian feminism so there!” No doubt with strap-ons, because that’s the only way for them to be homosexual. Which is like totally true btw.
Polliwog sez:
Indeed. I figure they must extrapolate from their own desires and project them onto others–notice that Delta’s stupid definition of homosexual requires certain actions but zie explicitly dismisses attraction as being defining. Once you board the Cock Train (related to the Alpha Cock Carousel) it takes you into the Gay Land of No Return. It probably serves the function of allowing certain people to alleviate their anxiety by letting them tell themselves at least they haven’t done it.
But that’s just me speculating, of course.
I think s/he needs the Daily Show’s R. Kelly impersonator.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-september-10-2007/trapped-in-the-closet-pt–1
This whole post is really making my stomach do flips. God, I hope some (read, “all”) of these guys get investigated.
“As I said, there is no such thing as a bi-sexual man – if you suck c*ck, you’re gay.”
And with a dramatic puff of smoke, my ex boyfriend vanishes into thin air.
Also, you know, a lot of these guys seem to me like they get off more on the idea that they’re doing something that society doesn’t want them to do than actual pedophiles. It just seems like a really childish “you can’t tell me I can’t do that!” thing for most of them. Even if they got their way (which they won’t) and the age on consent was lowered to 12, they’d probably just start looking for “sexy” pictures of 11 year olds.
“If you partake suck c*cks and partake in sodomy, you are fully gay. Being turned on by a puckering male anus is your true sexuality.”
Peeps, I’ve been leading you wrong all this time. Instead of an agender hippo, I’m actually a gay man.
“Peeps, I’ve been leading you wrong all this time. Instead of an agender hippo, I’m actually a gay man.”
NOOOOO
DON’T LEAVE ME HIPPO
Haha, yeah, I caught that on reading. I need to go tell my girlfriend she wants a strap on.
Wait, no, the opposite of that, because it’s stupid.
“What about those who swing both ways? AC-DC?”
They move through the room like ambulance drivers.
Do ambulance drivers suck a lot of cock, now? I feel I’ve lost the thread of this conversation…
Yes they do.
🙂
Actually, you might have a point there. It’s one thing to say “wow, this shit really stinks” and another to go rooting through it every day.
This goes for the commenters as well, the Boob Gang is kind of obsessed with the daily doings of MRAs, aren’t they? :p
… My saying I really honestly don’t have a problem with pedophilia (or ephebophelia, or hebephilia, or any of that set) as long as you don’t actually hurt anyone in pursuit of what turns you on — whether by distributing pics of underage individuals, child molestation, or whatever else — went virtually uncommented on. I’m a little scared, to be honest. Then again, Delta’s stupidity is downright breath-taking…
So is there such a thing as a bisexual woman? Why are men and women different in that respect [in Delta’s eyes]?
Nezumi – I don’t have a problem with un-acted-upon pedophilia, either.
But this is:
A) Acting upon it in a way that can directly harm the girl in question
and
B) Probably not even true pedophilia, in a lot of cases. I get the sense these guys are more into the exploitation and the myth of a teenager being sexier and less “despoiled” than they are directly attracted to childhood. I think most of them are attracted to adult women, but they just don’t get the same nasty thrills out of pursuing them.
I agree with Holly. As I said above, I don’t get the sense that most of the guys on that forum are true pedophiles/ephebophiles, they’re just jerks who get a kick out of doing things that they know they’re not supposed to do, and possible they’re also motivated by the fact that underage girls often react to sexual advances from older men with fear.It seems to be a power thing more than an issue of who they’re attracted to.
If you consider how much of his time is spent with his head firmly planted inside one, it’s kind of obvious…
@Nezumi – yeah, I don’t think you can hold people accountable for their thoughts and attractions, only their actions. Being attracted to young people, given the valorisation of youth in our culture, is not entirely unnatural or anything. It’s just wrong if you then act on it and hurt people.
I wasn’t saying the Jailbait reddit was acceptable — far from it, I pretty roundly denounce the whole idea as creepy and this specific incident as crossing the line in my first post.
There’s nothing wrong with finding teenagers attractive.
There is nothing wrong with finding old bastards who post nude pictures of 14 year olds really, really creepy.
And also putting their evil jerk asses in jail.
Signed,
Parent of two daughters,[rest of comment redacted by DF]
I’m going to hazard a wild guess and assume you might not be acting in good faith here.
Oh, sod you blockquotes.
Bostonian, I understand the frustration, but let’s not go there.