I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/12/28/reddit-makes-me-hate-men/
And please feel free to go ahead and tell me none of you guys has ever had your pic taken with something you own or want to own, or with something cool that a friend happens to have, or even just at a really cool place that you were proud to have visited.
pictures with rape jokes?
And yes, I can say I don't take pictures oof something interesting with
myself or friends. Not normally, anyway. Go through my albums, I rarely
take pictures of people at all.
The meme represented by this pic is due to a 15-year-old atheist girl proudly displaying a copy of an atheist book her Christian mother bought her. She made the terrible error of actually holding up the book in the picture and got thousands of rape jokes for it. And then this meme started showing up everywhere.
As for pics - we have a ton more pics of my husband doing stuff/holding up objects/posing for sightseeing than we do of me, does that make him a woman and me a man?
Because this never happens. Ever. Cheers all.
http://twicsy.com/i/iQW7R
However, if it does in some way fit your meme other than a girl took a picture of herself with a book on atheism, them please demonstrate that. Show an exact post (on reddit) wherein that girl was posed similar to this cartoon and the trolling came tumbling in.
Oh, and Christine Reece, this link would have better represented your point on the matter: http://skepchick.org/2011/12/reddit-makes-me-hate-atheists/
It was the link from the link you provided to the Freethoughts blog.
However, if you read the link to skepchick.org, the image in question predates the circumstances you're tying it to by at least a few weeks and, again, has nothing to do with rape, misogyny or other inappropriate trolling behavior.