Who?

Prank Channel made by a family "pranks" a child by pouring ink over a bedroom floor and then calling one of the kids up and blaming them, calling him a little shit, a fucker, all that, screaming at him, then ending it by going "it's just a prank, bro."

People complained that it was nasty, unethical, then the prank channel responded with a video that flipped it on the criticizers.

Seems like the family frequently pick on one kid and Franco has concerns that it's abuse masking as "content".

Now he's segued into a bit on Social Media facilitating weird crimes like the current Steve Stephenson manhunt, and criticism of rolling news for linking that to Video Games again because it detracts from the actual horror of the crime.

Then after all that sincerity he goes straight into his like, comment, subscribe shtick, robbing the video of a lot of its impact.

Liveinadive wrote:

So it is OK to touch a man without consent but not a woman.

Is anyone making that argument?

The feminists are at it again with all their political and social work being undermined by a twat with a camera phone

Yossarian wrote:

Liveinadive wrote:

So it is OK to touch a man without consent but not a woman.

Is anyone making that argument?

I would assume a feminist site would have a problem if a man filmed himself touching women without consent yet found this particular video "hilarious".
So yes. They are making that argument.

Matt_82 wrote:

Fuckin social media.

The guy presenting is mildly irritating but, yes, that's straight up child abuse.

Liveinadive wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

Liveinadive wrote:

So it is OK to touch a man without consent but not a woman.

Is anyone making that argument?

I would assume [...] they are making that argument.

Okay then.

Tempy wrote:

Liveinadive wrote:

Tempy wrote:

The feminists are at it again with all their political and social work being undermined by a twat with a camera phone

That particular site undermined itself by posting the video.

what site was it?

I can't remember. It was a few days back.
Take my word for it or don't.

Fucking hell.

Apologies, just came across that way. Plus I'm having to deal with Yoss Yossing.

tin_robot wrote:

Matt_82 wrote:

Fuckin social media.

The guy presenting is mildly irritating but, yes, that's straight up child abuse.

Yeah, that's fucking horrendous!

FWIW, my counter assumption would be this:

Not all feminists think the same things, and I think you'd be hard-pressed to find more than a few individuals who take the position you express, but you could probably find plenty who think that either 1. touching always requires consent or 2. it's not a big deal, regardless of genders.

But I'm just being a cunt, apparently.

We're verging on a discussion we have at work. If a man were to cop a feel of a female cop, he shouldn't be surprised when he gets charged. On the other hand, women feel up male cops on a regular basis. I'm neither good looking nor in great shape, and still get my arse felt on a regular basis.

Why is it that the same sexual assault has different societal responses depending on the gender of the people involved?

Well, the main answer is that we are different and, with that, the intentions and the resultant response is different. If a male grabs a female cops arse, in general there is something fundamentally more predatory than that. In general men are stronger, better equipped to physically impose themselves, and more likely to. There's an undercurrent of "I'm touching you because I can, and I can touch you some more if I like." When a female grabs a male cop's arse, in general its with playful intent. There's an undercurrent of "I'm touching you while I can, and I can touch you some more if you like."

While I take the point that there is a degree of hypocrisy, touching beards is different. It's still not right, but I'd equate it to a wet finger in the ear rather than the generally more sexualised/predatory touching by males.

You were making sweeping generalisations based on assumptions and then turning to personal insults when I pointed this out, and somehow you insulting me is my fault?

Tempy wrote:

That said, I just think it's a twat with a camera who isn't proving a point well at all, and is instead being a bit of a dick.

I had a quick Google and came across story about some model doing this which is I assume the same one, but the video doesn't work. There is a link to her Facebook page though for some reason.