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So for the important question that is on everyone's mind:
Did you get the PS3?
At least I don't think this is going to turn into /r/shitredditsays or /r/srs which is basically "Everything everyone does is extremely offensive to my delicate sensibilities, and I want to have a circlejerk about how fantastic I am because I think everyone else should be offended too."
Woman!
Basically, r/SRS is just r/Circlejerk, but with the tears of the hyper-sensitive, hysterical and insane being used as lube. They're the hyper-sensitive concerned, super-nosy evangelical christian neighbor of Reddit. They have legitimate complaints from time to time, but the vast majority of their complaints are just idiotic I'm-so-offended circlejerks. It's not about changing anything, or being a positive force - it's about being haughty and supercilious, because they're offended by these horrible things that are beneath such civilized and enlightened people such as them, and these plebeian animals are not. Look how good we are, compared to those worthless animals, isn't it lovely, everyone. Yes, very lovely.
Yeah, reddit does have a ton of white Nerds, and a ton of racists and sexists. Yeah, they're a problem. But r/srs isn't the antidote or opposition to that, it's just as bad, only from the opposite viewpoint. They are the Michael Moore to Fox's Glenn Beck, the only real difference between the two sacks of shit is that their declared causes oppose each other - which doesn't change that they're both sacks of shit.
Or in this case, thumb-twiddling concern trolls, who take it out there, rather than actually having a hard word to anyone, because then they don't lose their precious karma when someone inevitably downvotes them - which they will, not because they're correct-but-unpopular, but because they're the kind of people who get outraged that people in r/gonewild openly say people are sexy and make sexual remarks.
Jesus christ, at least when I have a problem with something someone says, I'll sack up and fucking say something about it, karma be damned, rather than just snickering and making snide comments in the metaphorical locker room where most people won't hear.
Or, the TL:DR version - No, that's simply bollocks. The reason everyone thinks of and treats r/SRS like a circlejerk and a joke, is because they're a circlejerk and a complete joke. It exists solely so that they can feel superior to other people - they're as bad as the people they're carrying on about.
B: It all boils down to whether or not there is free will and solipsism. You're wrong.
However, I would argue the point that they're oversensitive. They have a low bar for how sexist/racist/ableist/elitist a statement needs to be to get posted on SRS, but they're not jumping at shadows. Rather, the problem is that the things they bring up, statements that aren't extraordinarily offensive, but that indicate an underlying racism informing the person who made the comment, are so incredibly common that most people don't even notice them. There is a kind of casual prejudice on reddit and the internet in general, particularly in regards to women, that is so fucking pervasive that people can say really sexist things and then accuse the people who notice of being oversensitive. But the problem is with the society that allows a kind of subtle, low-profile prejudice to flourish, rather than with the people making comments that are socially-acceptable or with the SRS types who take notice of the problem.
Perhaps it's because I spend quite a bit of my free time hanging out with radical feminists, but I've become very sensitized to subtle sexism and anti-LGBT sentiments over the past year or so. I'd like to extend some of that same sensitivity to you guys, so I don't rage myself into a coma at the internet.
It's kinda why nobody takes them seriously, and why they're useless at what they set out to do - the whole we're-so-great-because-we're-offended circlejerk just means everyone rolls their eyes and ignores them, because they're just annoying and indignant about everything. People have started to actively try to piss them off, just to watch them rage themselves to bits - so basically, they're now creating the exact problem they hate, because they went about trying to combat it such an ass-backwards manner.
I get what you mean about being sensitized to subtle sexism and anti-LGBT statements - I pay a lot of attention to it myself. Unlike r/srs, I just don't rage about it, I stay chill, and then act when it's appropriate or useful to act - selecting targets for maximum effect.