All men are “deviants”. Because I said so.

wereallpeoplehere:

Men’s search terms is a catalog of offensive search terms that real men have typed into their search engines, obviously hoping to find pornographic photos and videos of these things happening in re…

This entire blog is hilarious. Not even offensive, just hilarious. Apparently, in some heroic effort to prove once and for all that all men are really just rapists waiting to happen, some kindly soul has set up this page, apparently cataloguing all the awful things men masturbate to, as if that somehow demonstrates that some day, they will jump a woman.



Several things on this site are flawed. Firstly, the screaming lack of sex positivity. Just because something doesn’t float your boat, or isn’t vanilla at all, doesn’t mean it’s bad. Hasn’t there been a lot of discussion about this? About how sexual taboos are essentially a product of our patriarchal histories? Or maybe I just woke up and that was all a horrible dream. I’m so glad I’m back in the real world, where it’s acceptable to deride people for their sexual preferences!

Then, their lack of scientific method. I’m sorry ladies, if you’re going to use this catalogue to prove to me that all men are perverts and child molesters, then I want proper statistics, I want hard evidence, I want your method to be transparent to me. Apparently, “These search terms have been compiled by female bloggers, and represent search terms they found in the stats on their own blogs.” So your evidence is not observed, but surveyed from other sources, further decreasing your credibility. But hey, you’re still okay! Surveys are perfectly valid tools for the gathering of data when performed correctly! Unless… your statistics are self-submitted, and all-but-anonymous. How are you ensuring that these submissions are reliable, are not in some way skewed? Oh, wait, “submissions are accepted from known radfem bloggers.” So there’s definitely no bias there, nothing which might skew your results, or even fill them entirely with lies. These submissions aren’t even image based, or direct links to code, they’re simply text fields into which you enter a message claiming that you found such and such search term. (On a side note, why would any self-respecting pervert be looking for porn on a radfem’s blog? Why would a rad-fem be a target for these search terms?)

But finally, and most conspicuously, the small matter of proving right their entire premise; that these are real things, searched by men. Say we take it on faith that these are real things searched by real people, how do we know they’re men? It’s not as if gender is tagged to your ISP. Oh, no, wait: “[Q:] How do you know these belong to men?

[A:] If a woman used these search terms, I’ll eat my hat.”

Ah.