College-aged women have no idea what "suffrage" means and sign a petition to "End Women's Suffrage" - [3:30] x-post from r/cringe

Always_Doubtful · 2013-07-03T20:27:34+00:00

This was a joke at my middle school... way back in the day we thought we were so fucking funny for asking girls if they wanted to end women's suffrage.

It's like the people who voluntarily immerse themselves in this whole "gender studies, women's studies, social justice, etc" area actually progressively get dumber and dumber throughout highschool and college instead of smarter...

Always_Doubtful · 2013-07-03T20:00:32+00:00

Hmmm, its almost like feminism and gender studies programs in college are completely useless and don't teach anything. Who would have guessed?

DlSCONNECTED · 2013-07-03T20:38:20+00:00

This was a Man Show sketch.

libertasmens · 2013-07-03T23:46:02+00:00

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ExteriorAmoeba · 2013-07-03T22:09:55+00:00

What. The. Fuck.

"Well, the word suffrage sounds bad, so we should probably oppose it!"

Welcome to the age of anti-intellectualism.

Tammylan · 2013-07-04T03:32:39+00:00

What does this have to do with men's rights?

purplepurpledrank · 2013-07-03T20:10:50+00:00

"I'm so dumb"

"Yeah"

literallyschmiteraly · 2013-07-03T20:23:47+00:00

I can see why that started on r/cringe.

SkyWulf · 2013-07-04T01:13:52+00:00

This has fucking nothing to do with men's rights

nohypergamyonlylogic · 2013-07-04T01:15:01+00:00

It's almost like this was edited. :p

thatmethguy · 2013-07-04T04:21:30+00:00

This is funny but why is it on this subreddit?

nhjuyt · 2013-07-03T22:09:22+00:00

Should be crossposted to /r/UCSantaBarbara

tyciol · 2013-07-03T19:48:57+00:00

You know I'm going to have to say university system fail in general....

tkookookachoo · 2013-07-03T23:28:05+00:00

I did this for shits and giggles in my local mall one time...the results were astounding.

Aaod · 2013-07-03T22:16:19+00:00

Isn't a purely female phenomenon I feel. At my college I have discussed things with people for things like environmentalism where I knew more than they did despite the fact they are running the booth. Blame it on the fact any moron can get into college now.

m0grady · 2013-07-04T00:41:09+00:00

funny, but it was funnier when the man show boy did it

2013-07-04T01:00:41+00:00

They win. We give up. Women's suffrage revoked.

Canadianelite · 2013-07-04T03:05:14+00:00

This video is bullshit. These girls are just airheads standing around talking to a presumably attractive guy about issues they neither comprehend or care about.

eats_puppies · 2013-07-04T05:31:40+00:00

meh, I don't really think this proves anything other than that people are gullible and have limited vocabularies. It's more of a prank on those who signed it than it is a method of proving anything about women's studies. And remember, only the people who fell for it were included in the video

2013-07-04T11:15:39+00:00

Obviously they showed only the worst examples...look at his shirt, several days were needed to gather enough material to show the stupidest ones in the video.

Besides, 'suffraging' is not a word, 'suffrage' is. He is trying to make it sound like 'suffering' to fool the ones to whom English is possibly not the first language. I don't believe the results would be any different if he asked the same to men passing by.

kurokabau · 2013-07-04T16:19:41+00:00

Not a men's rights issue. It just shows that people will blindly sign something that they think may help them. This could be applied to so many different things.

This does not support men's rights or even affect men. Keep this to r/cringe, i don't think it belongs here.

Sir_Marcus · 2013-07-05T21:52:21+00:00

I'm actually a UCSB student and there are a few things you should know about this video.

He says he's outside the "Feminist Studies building" but actually he's outside South Hall which houses a number of departments, the largest of which is Math.
He's on the side of South Hall which faces the Pardall bike path, one of the most heavily trafficked parts of campus. It's where a lot of annoying petitioners hang out.
UCSB's Feminist Studies department is pretty small, like all of our humanities departments. Especially in comparison to our STEM fields.

So most, if not all, of the women he talked to were probably not feminist studies majors. In fact I'd bet a shiny nickle that at least half of them were STEM majors because almost everyone at UCSB is a STEM major.

It's almost like someone wrote a sensationalist title to deliberately mislead gullible redditors!

We now resume our regularly scheduled circlejerk.

osufan765 · 2013-07-04T00:18:30+00:00

Why is this in /r/mensrights ?

Redskull673 · 2013-07-04T01:09:34+00:00

...BWAHAHAHAHA

AndrewtheAbbot · 2013-07-04T01:29:36+00:00

oldest trick in the book, i was pulling this shit in 9th grade

ThePigman · 2013-07-04T01:34:49+00:00

Saw it years ago, it's a classic!

aydinsevimli · 2013-07-04T01:55:18+00:00

Hahaha, I'm using this to pick up chicks. I'll only hit on the ones that know what suffrage is.

2013-07-04T02:05:16+00:00

"omg I'm so dumb"

"yea"

hahahahahahahahaha

The_Deuteragonist · 2013-07-04T02:28:25+00:00

Am i the only person who recognized the music at the beginning from the halo 3 believe commercial

2013-07-04T15:28:56+00:00

Welcome to America.

vynusmagnus · 2013-07-05T08:52:06+00:00

You can get people to sign anything when you purposely use outdated or overly technical terms. The old "dihydrogen monoxide" hoax is a perfect example of this. Not only that, but we have no idea how many people knew what suffrage means and refused to sign the petition. I really don't know what he's trying to prove with this. You could probably have a petition to end men's suffrage and get similar results.

oysterme · 2013-07-07T07:43:51+00:00

Have they seen Mary Poppins?

sconeTodd · 2013-07-04T01:14:57+00:00

HAHAHA omg womyn are so stupid!

C'mon this is misleading suffrage and suffrage-ing sounds like suffering

lets get some real MenRights issues in the subreddit, this is bullshit.

harryballsagna · 2013-07-03T22:37:13+00:00

Dem black socks.

Mrmojoman0 · 2013-07-04T00:00:02+00:00

reminds me of the video i saw like, seven years ago

2013-07-04T01:41:30+00:00

In all fairness, I thought that women's suffrage was a bad thing too.

Then I took 5th grade social studies.

mfuqua3 · 2013-07-04T05:01:51+00:00

I'm sorry, I am an avid supporter of this subreddit, but this has no business being here. This has nothing to do with MRM, and most of this comment section is just one giant circlejerk.

I am a college age male, and while I have a general sense for what the "women's suffrage movement" is, I could not have said specifically what suffrage was before watching this video. Suffrage isn't really culturally relevant vocabulary, nor is it even a current goal of the feminist movement. It really shouldn't be at all surprising that a small sample of college girls don't know what suffrage is. This video is funny, perhaps it belongs in a subreddit for funny things, if only there was one...

2013-07-04T08:53:25+00:00

!. Be attractive. 2. Don't be unattractive. 3. Women will do anything you ask.

sprinkz · 2013-07-04T00:14:09+00:00

This would work on men even better.

synnndstalker · 2013-07-04T01:05:37+00:00

I think it's important to distinguish that these women were likely feminist or gender studies majors. Had you asked a bunch of women in STEM, I'm sure they would have known.

JohnPeel · 2013-07-03T22:11:01+00:00

Interesting fact - it seems like more women want to end women's suffrage than MRAs!

So who are the bad guys now?

baskandpurr · 2013-07-03T23:17:45+00:00

This is a bit of a silly trick, and it really only worked because he's tall, dark and handsome. Have an average male with a clipboard trying to get the attention of group a young females and he will be called weirdo, creep etc. before someone eventually calls security.

AceyJuan · 2013-07-03T22:08:01+00:00

~~Alright, I'm willing to bet this is one area where Feminists beat regular college women.~~

Title	College-aged women have no idea what "suffrage" means and sign a petition to "End Women's Suffrage" - [3:30] x-post from r/cringe
Author	EmptyChurches
Upvotes	231
Comments	118
Date	July 3, 2013 7:26 PM UTC (13 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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