r/Infuriating 11h ago

DMs I got from men

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u/Reasonable-Party8405 11h ago

So.... I am lost. These are 100 percent unsolicited??

I am not trying to be rude or offensive but do you do OF or post provocative pics? Not that is any type of excuse.

I just don't get it.

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u/chelseatheus 11h ago

No, I posted a SFW selfie on a SFW selfie subreddit.

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u/Fiorire_il_strega 11h ago

I did this once and immediately got weird dudes DMing me their dicks and cringe stuff similar to what you shared. It was on an Asian social media app though.

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u/Hungry_CGman 11h ago

Bobs and Vegan please!

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u/MegatronusThePrime 10h ago edited 9h ago

That's your problem. Girl online= that. Lol.

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u/Hungry_CGman 11h ago

Aw ok, that makes sense. It bewilders me how many scary men are out there lurking around. Like, is it half? lol

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u/ShabbyTiff 10h ago

No, it's a very small percentage.

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u/Hungry_CGman 10h ago edited 10h ago

I'm a dude, with lots of dude friends, and sadly I think it's not. :/ We are just seeing the ones brave enough or attracted enough to try it this time. Times this by 10.

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u/ShabbyTiff 10h ago

Statistically it has to be a small percentage. Even in this scenario there may have been hundreds or thousands of guys seeing that post and she got like 5 bad dms.

It's still too many, but it isn't a majority of men.

Also, call out your friends. Be the guy that changes that shit.

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u/Hungry_CGman 10h ago

Well they don't reveal that, I just have suspicions. haha

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u/A_Velociraptor20 10h ago

I don't think more than a small percentage of dudes are going around doing this unsolicited. It's a different story if someone wants these kinds of messages though. OP very clearly was not asking for these kinds of messages.

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u/chelseatheus 10h ago

Tbh, there's a lot more than 5. Just didn't feel like editing more screenshots.

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u/ShabbyTiff 10h ago

Even then it's still a specific cohort in a specific location. To cast judgements on an entire sex is messed up.

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u/Impossible-Bat-4246 10h ago

Don't do it Shabby. What happens when we found out that 1000 people have looked at the post and there are 500 DMs?!

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u/Hungry_CGman 10h ago

Well I don't think anybody is saying 'every man' of course, but it's bigger % than this list posted here.

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u/twolinepine 10h ago

It feels that way. But after having been a detective and working some of the worst crimes - it’s soooooo many people.

You just don’t know until you know. Which is how we now have shows on A&E like Who the bleep did I marry or the monster next door.

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u/ShabbyTiff 3h ago

I'm not arguing that there aren't a lot of terrible people out there, but it's no where near 50% of all men. 0.5% of the US population is 1.7 million people, so even if it is a fraction of a percent who are awful, you are going to see a lot of true crime shows. If 50% of men were secretly awful, we are talking about 85 million people. How would society function?

What you are describing is a confirmation bias brought on by your profession. As a detective you were exposed to more of this stuff so assumed it is more common. Even at that crime scene, you have one perpetrator, but then you have a bunch people trying to solve the case, you passed by hundreds of folks just living their lives on the way to the scene. Truth is that even 1 in a thousand bad guys is noticeable, but it doesn't mean we should be skeptical of all of our neighbors.

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u/twolinepine 1h ago

I’m not saying it is more than 50%, I’m saying the number is far higher than you would think, and far more common than I ever wanted to believe.

Numbers can be deceptive. And there may be some confirmation bias. I’m also no statistician, but here are some facts that can found pretty easily:

1 in 3 women have experience some sort of assault.
An estimated 1 billion children have been victims of that kind of abuse.
NCMEC processes 80,000 complaints a DAY. Even the ones that get forwarded to an agency for investigation is usually far more than they’ll ever be able to complete.

You suggested at the beginning that it has to be a statistically small percentage. What is considered small? The number of guys seeing it are a specific type: one who has social media. There are many that don’t engage on that platform.

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u/Carnivean_ 9h ago

This is not an argument worth pursuing.

For you personally you should aim for the percentage to be 0%.

For the people you can influence then you should aim for 0%.

For everyone else you can be disappointed when the percentage is not 0%.

Nobody is assuming that you are one of these disgusting people. That will continue to be true unless you try to argue on their behalf.

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u/tapeforpacking 11h ago

Tbh even that is more than enough to get these kinds of people in your dms

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u/Hungry_CGman 11h ago

Ya that was the only thing I was thinking. Like how do they even know you are a female? Like I know the little Reddit avatar can be female but literally anybody could use that too. haha

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u/hatecirclejerks 11h ago

I thought about sending "wanna see my boobs" just to shake things up, but figured it would be in bad taste.

Sorry OP, imagine you blowing them up with your mind, makes me feel better

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u/Hungry_CGman 11h ago edited 10h ago

I'm a man, and I've literally never sent anything like this in my life. The sheer lack of self awareness and how brain dead this is mind numbing. The craziest part is they think it will finally work even though it has never worked. I've also never paid for an OF page or a porno site. I must be some kind of last human specie (Denisovan?) walking the planet. lol

Saying that, how do they even know you are a female on reddit? It's like the last thing I'm thinking about on here. I thought it was just a place to erase time.

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u/CrazyPlatypus42 10h ago

Most people haven't and will never do it, I remember seeing a study about that, it doesn't even represent a few % of social media users, but they send their shit to so many people that basically every woman feels constantly harassed... I always find it sad to see what a few bad apples can reach...

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u/b20339 10h ago

It's more hand ringing for the anti men crowd

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u/Carnivean_ 9h ago

If you aren't anti this behaviour then you are part of the anti-men crowd. Real men don't do this.

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u/b20339 9h ago

I 1000% agree with you.

That doesn't mean I agree that this is behavior exhibited by anything even remotely a large group of the population

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u/b20339 9h ago

It's no different than the fact that I've been cheated on by 3 out of the four women I've had long-term relationships with, that doesn't mean I get to judge 75% of women as cheaters.

Instead I'm an adult that understands logic and reasoning, and I completely understand that my experience is a very limited window compared to the vast human experience that other people have so I don't project my experiences on other people.

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u/faithOver 9h ago

Bruh. Totally with you. Who’s all the weirdos out there paying for porn when there infinity free porn. And who is trying to use this wasteland of a site for anything other than brain rot. Diabolical.

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u/Logical-Speaker-6795 10h ago

The funny thing is, that a lot of these would probably work on some gay men. They are just fishing for the wrong demographic...

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u/Hungry_CGman 10h ago

Yep, dudes are horny. 2 horny dudes, oh lawd.

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u/crystal-cadaver 11h ago

“Want to come to lake Gnangara and watch me wank” is lowkey funny asf tho I cannot lie

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u/Hungry_CGman 11h ago

Nope still creepy af.

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u/crystal-cadaver 10h ago

Ya that’s why I said lowkey funny and not cracking up

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u/Kuroboom 10h ago

I'm sorry that these people were gross at you, nobody deserves that.

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u/Advanced-Candle6051 10h ago

This is what happens when our penises do the talking

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u/Araiah14 10h ago

I honestly believe these guys doing this would freeze and babble if ever faced with these women in real life. Like they never got past a 4th grade social level..

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u/Trade-Working 9h ago

Bro, I swear, I keep apologizing to women on behalf of my gender, because goddamn some of us are TERRIBLE

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u/Impossible-Bat-4246 10h ago

This is.... the internet needs to burn.

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u/Unlikely-Violinist53 10h ago

Poor Chelsea…

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u/Technical-Platypus-8 10h ago

Reddit is definitely not a community you want to reveal much about yourself within. I recommend making your profile private

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u/WifeandTimes2 10h ago

you get all the boys

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u/gbach10 10h ago

And I’ve got 100 emails and DM’s from girls with their tits out advertising their OF pages. Whats your point?

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u/Impossible-Bat-4246 10h ago

I have zero of those. What were you wearing to attract such attention?

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u/b20339 10h ago

Oh so now your victim blaming?

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u/Impossible-Bat-4246 10h ago

Yes. Yes I am. They must have been the cause of all those OF DM's.

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u/b20339 9h ago

Are we both being overly sarcastic right now?

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u/Hungry_CGman 10h ago

Those are just spam DM's to 1000's of dudes dawg.

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u/b20339 10h ago

I don't know why you're getting downvoted the double standard is ridiculous

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u/No-Reputation-8643 8h ago

i mean he's 100% getting downvoted for the "what's your point?" which is basically saying that op shouldn't share her own experiences with sexual harassment just because commenter has also dealt with sexual harassment.

plus, i don't see how that's a double standard, how are people even supposed to know about men also experiencing harassment if it's literally only brought up to be a dick to the female op

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u/legacy-of-rats 7h ago

This is huge point and unfortunately part of why men being victims are not met with as much sympathy. So often men only point out what happens to other men as a way to invalidate a woman's experiences. So do those men actually care about the suffering of men who are victims? Are they actually proactive and wanting to give them a voice? Do they ever even think or talk about the issue aside from using it to invalidate a woman? Often, those men are just using as a tool for them in the context of a woman being a victim, which is extremely unfair to men who are also victims. It's harmful no matter how you swing it...

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u/Hungry_CGman 4h ago

He's getting downvoted because every dude that visits any of the XXX pages on Reddit get emails from the girls. It's spam.

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u/JKdito 8h ago

Fucking hell, I aint no feminist(prefer equality) but things like this is why feminism is needed. Ffs guys, get a life.

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u/legacy-of-rats 8h ago

?

Feminism DOES push for equality...

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u/JKdito 7h ago

Maybe in theory but in practise, women are more prioritised than men(atleast where I live). Every movement is extreme to be effective, I dont attack the movement but I cant say I support it either. Treat everyone as equal, dont employ someone just because its looks good in public opinion for example. I have seen too much negative impact from the movement. I have seen too much negative impact from the Sigma male movement aswell. Extremism. Its effective cause it attracts mindless sheep who sees the world in black or white.

All I want is for the women in my social circle to be safe, healthy and have same opportunities as men. Give them more or easier just because they are women is overdoing it which might be needed to change things but it also steers us closer to a artificial reality that will have extreme consequences.

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u/legacy-of-rats 7h ago

Please just know that the "feminists" you are talking about make true feminists look bad and so we don't like them either. Those are the feminazis.

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u/JKdito 6h ago

Call it what you want but they are doing it in the name of feminism. Im not a person who joins a group of people to fit in. I have my own views and I stand for them. A label is meaningless tbh because like you say, there are many opinions and views in a collective.

Every label is in that sense dangerous because it can be used to justify bad actions and attracts easy persuaded people through marketing and politics etc. A person is most vulnerable to manipulation when they passionately join a group, movement or put a label on their identity. Everything is subjective but the consequences are real. Equality is a good thing but should treated with balance, too much of anything is bad(even equality since when it becomes "forced").

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u/legacy-of-rats 6h ago

I agree, actions speak louder than words, and actions done in the name of something reflect on that something. This is why I do not like religion. However, feminist movements have done FAR more good than bad, so I would suggest educating yourself on feminism as an actual movement throughout history rather than your own personal views and experiences with bad individuals.

From the sound of it, you may also be interested in learning about social equity.