So Why does Cracked Constantly Push Feminist Propaganda? -[They answer on Tumblr]

mean0dean0 · 2014-09-23T16:25:24+00:00

More posturing in the pretense that somehow women suffering ANY abuse or ANY violence is somehow worse than men suffering the vast majority of abuse and violence for the entirety of recorded history. White Knighting at its most basic.

MeMyselfandBi · 2014-09-23T16:00:35+00:00

I used to enjoy Cracked.com but more and more every day I hate the reviling propaganda machine it has become. It's so damn frustrating. And then they have the gall to be dismissive of any criticism towards it in a holier-than-thou tone. Damn it all.

HoneyVortex · 2014-09-23T16:33:30+00:00

They push the lie that feminism is an equality movement and not a belief in a "patriarchy" conspiracy.

Any observation of such is an attack on all women (misogyny) and not worthy of serious discussion, until it is.

awesomesalsa · 2014-09-23T16:44:03+00:00

The better question is why is Cracked so popular?

redpillbanana · 2014-09-23T17:53:02+00:00

Posted this elsewhere:

Cracked has some excellent writers and I like their general style of alternating serious content with throwaway jokes. It's too bad that they decided to go down the politically correct path like with their article about MRAs.

/u/womblefish posted a great summary of cracked in one of the MRA subs:

They have different columnists that express different opinions. But you are correct, Cracked quite often leans in a very feminist direction..

The chief editor and if I recall founder of Cracked.com, David Wong is your typical sycophantic male feminist. The type desperate for female approval.

His position means that he filters out any articles or columnists who might express any 'anti-feminist' ideas. And as 'editor' he tend to push columns and ideas that match his ideology.

He also has a couple of pet columnists...

His favourite is Luke McKinney, his attack dog, another self-loathing, man-hating male feminist, who also works as an editor. McKinney takes every opportunity to tell all the young men reading Cracked what horrible human beings they are. McKinney sees misogyny everywhere. Sometimes I can't tell whether he even believes what he's writing (Poe's law) or whether it's deliberate flame bait. Generally I just try to avoid his articles altogether.

His other favourite pet is John Cheese, which you linked to. Cheese is his pet poor person. If you look at the Cracked columnists, they're almost entirely white, middle class, college educated, as such they have very little diversity of viewpoint. Cheese is there because he's the only one that's ever had any real hardship in his life. They hold him up as if to pretend they care about people who aren't white, middle class, college educated. They use him to tell horror stories about being working class, and to just flat out moralize to the readers. But it's incredibly obvious how heavily edited Cheese's articles are. Cheese has been through a divorce, with kids. Yet in all his articles, he's never mentioned anything about his experience in the divorce. I get the impression that Cheese actually has custody of his kids, how this miracle could come about is something of a mystery. It seems particular strange as no other topic in his life seems to be off the table. I get the strong impression Cheese is keeping his head down, writing what he's told to write, happy to have a job.

Soren Bowie is your typical guy who pays lip service to feminist ideals because he thinks it's good for his public image. He's not actually a very good writer and I suspect Wong keeps him on mainly for video work and because he spouts the right ideological catchphrases on command.

The majority of the other columnists seem to not have much of an ideological bent, just willing to tolerate minor editing changes. A few like Swaim are talented enough to be able to write whatever they like, or smart enough to express themselves in a way that conveys their opinion without tripping any alarm bells in the editing office.

About the only one that's ever dared come close to expressing any ideas that conflict feminism would be Gladstone. Gladstone is their token Jew, that's about as close to non-white as you'll get on Cracked, I guess they think that counts as diversity. He's also their token Father/Family man. (AFAIK All the other regular columnists are single/don't have kids). Generally his views tend to be more in line with traditional masculinity, but even that's a refreshing change from the BS Gender Studies Lite that Cracked seems to be drifting towards.

Five years ago Cracked was about being funny, sure they only had one article a day, but it was a good article, and it was funny. The problem with being funny is that it always offends someone. Over the last 5 years Cracked seems to be trying to 'appeal to a larger audience'. Which basically means 'nothing that might offend women'.

The size of the Cracked audience has definitely grown, I remember when a good article would get 100,000 views. Now days even a crap article can get 1 million+. I guess there's less pressure for every article to be great with bigger website, because the last 2-3 years Wong has definitely started using his position to push an ideological agenda.

TL:DR Cracked is edited by two male feminists, and most of the columnists are white, middle class, college educated (arts students) with no children. They've all been through the same feminist academic institutions, and almost all have the exact same outlook on life.. The Cracked offices are probably quite circle-jerky.

I_DOXX_CATS · 2014-09-23T17:28:25+00:00

Remember when cracked was a not too bad mad magazine ripoff? Weird how things change.

Marcruise · 2014-09-23T18:47:58+00:00

This should cheer people up.

Salient0ne · 2014-09-23T16:52:59+00:00

We need to put together a list of sites to boycott, raise awareness of bias and agenda pushing.

DavidByron2 · 2014-09-23T16:58:05+00:00

Because it's run by hate mongers?

Armiel · 2014-09-23T18:24:25+00:00

here’s the thing: no one is actually trying to take anything from you.

You mean other than my rights to an education, due process, and freedom of speech? People with your mindset have set up kangaroo courts with predetermined outcomes to kick men out of colleges and universities and have protested speeches by men's groups going so far as to pull fire alarms and make death threats.

That sickening feeling you have that your being robbed of basic human rights, there are people around you in your life who are feeling a worse version of that everyday.

Are you talking about those who live in third world countries? You don't have to tell me. I've been to Afghanistan and seen first hand how hard life is for everybody over there. Of course, that doesn't mean we can't work on problems here. That train of logic is silly. It'd be like saying that since murder is worse than rape, we shouldn't worry about rape until the murder rate drops to zero.

If you don’t believe me, look at any of the secret camera videos women have taken on the street to catch the verbal abuse they suffer...

Oh, you meant upper middle class white women. Yeah, they're so oppressed /s. There's no way I can take people seriously when they compare getting catcalled to "verbal abuse" or getting looked at to "stare rape." It's the epitome of first world problems. You never see this type of stuff from people who live under oppressive governments or in poverty. Probably because they have real problems to deal with. Nope, the only people you see this from are upper middle class women try to play the professional victim.

And you might not be the guy making them feel that way, I hope you’re not, but holy shit, you can actually help. You can help other people instead of standing in their way because it feels like another inconvenience.

How are we standing in the way? Are there any prominent men or men's groups that say "you know, groping women on the subway is totally okay."? If we live in a society that endorses these types of behaviors, then how is calling someone a misogynist one of the most damaging things you can say?

Finally, even if the absolute worse case scenario is true... isn’t that worth preventing an inarguably high percentage of sexual abuse and dangerous objectification of your daughter/ your sister/ your wife?

I'll quote Ben Franklin "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" Further, there are no guarantees that anything feminists are suggesting would actually lower rates of sexual assault by any significant percentage.

holy shit, friend, how can you argue against the aim of basic respect for another human being?

That train left the station decades ago. American society has been more or less equal for the better part of at least 50 years. I think the better question is why do you oppose basic human rights for half the population just because they have a Y chromosome?

SporkTornado · 2014-09-23T15:41:26+00:00

I regularly read cracked.com, some of their articles are good. But I get the feeling that the site is run by a sjw.

CaptainNeedleMouse · 2014-09-23T22:38:33+00:00

After the article by Zoe Quinn and the subsequent article bashing gamers I just unliked their Facebook page and will not visit their site anymore. I feel everyone should do the same, they've gone downhill and don't deserve the page views...

TracyMorganFreeman · 2014-09-23T18:28:33+00:00

Oh look, telling people what they're actually thinking or arguing instead of addressing their arguments.

rogerwatersbitch · 2014-09-23T17:44:39+00:00

Ugh...Soren Bowie was one of my faves there on Cracked...ever been so dissapointed in someone it makes you queasy?

I havent gone there in almost a year, but it still hurts like hell what they did to that website.

mushy6 · 2014-09-23T22:55:13+00:00

this is 100% proof.

feminism/SJW movement is grade A certified fascism.

clawjelly · 2014-09-23T16:44:42+00:00

Hmmmm... I'd like to actually see some of those "secret camera videos women have taken on the street to catch the verbal abuse" ... Any links?

ThePigmanAgain · 2014-09-23T21:11:50+00:00

Well, at least they are now openly admitting their bias!

2014-09-23T23:04:37+00:00

Just another member of the "progressive" hate-blog mafia.

CornyHoosier · 2014-09-23T22:16:46+00:00

Bull. Shit.

FlavorfulCondomints · 2014-09-23T22:50:03+00:00

Clickbait.

overtoe · 2014-09-24T00:04:32+00:00

Well, that went nowhere. What a surprise.

Drbg1 · 2014-09-24T02:46:33+00:00

Anybody remember a Cracked writer mentioning this sub in paticular?

romulusnr · 2014-09-24T05:46:50+00:00

feminists and a huge chunk of the Internet are villainizing men unfairly and creating a culture where you’re no longer allowed to even voice your opinions without people getting angry- even if all of that is true

... we're still going to gaslight you exactly like this anyway, because we get more pussy for constantly dissing our fellow men.

So Why does Cracked Constantly Push Feminist Propaganda? -[They answer on Tumblr]

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Gamergate is way ahead of you on that. They boycott mostly gaming sites but the SJW arm of Cracked has earned their scorn along with Buzzfeed and Gawker Media.

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