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Related: About this forumKickstarter bans 'seduction guides' and other PUA projects
Too late to prevent some money from going to the wannabe rapist at the heart of the controversy, but still seems like a good step.
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2013/06/21/2196011/kickstarter-to-ban-seduction-guides-donate-to-rainn-in-response-to-pick-up-artist-uproar/
Second, the project page has been removed from Kickstarter. The project has no place on our site. For transparencys sake, a record of the page is cached here.
Third, we are prohibiting seduction guides, or anything similar, effective immediately. This material encourages misogynistic behavior and is inconsistent with our mission of funding creative works. These things do not belong on Kickstarter.
Fourth, today Kickstarter will donate $25,000 to an anti-sexual violence organization called RAINN. Its an excellent organization that combats exactly the sort of problems our inaction may have encouraged.
ismnotwasm
(42,088 posts)Wow.
wryter2000
(46,366 posts)The got it. They didn't just do damage control.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)Thanks for the update.
redqueen
(115,113 posts)So, so good to see this kind of crap becoming as socially unacceptable as it should have been from day 1.
BainsBane
(53,180 posts)Whatever are the MRAsmas going to do?
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)BainsBane
(53,180 posts)redqueen
(115,113 posts)Danascot
(4,722 posts)... probably as a result of following Reddit PUA advice.
Nay
(12,051 posts)thinly veiled contempt for females -- why do they want to be together with females, whom they despise? Obviously for sex, and possibly to dump the housework on her, but why don't they just hire a hooker and a maid twice a week? Seems like that would solve the problem, and they wouldn't have to worry about their feelings getting hurt by bitchez.
Spend money on services that should be there's for the asking? Why You're insulting their very manhood.
MadrasT
(7,237 posts)According to these dudes
ismnotwasm
(42,088 posts)Kind of the center of their philosophy