This user on 4chan posted a story about hopping onto Reddit and reading about a woman's boyfriend who begged her not to get an abortion before completely leaving her and raising the child himself. She then disowns the child and supposedly everyone on the Reddit thread was praising her and calling her boyfriend a scumbag.
I first saw this screencap a while back and I just assumed it was just some generic 4chan tall tale used as an excuse to complain about Reddit.
I didn't realize the error of my logic, as I soon discovered that 4chan is less prone to exaggeration than Reddit is to being repugnant.
http://archive.fo/Ji5e8
What's enough to make my skin crawl is not only was the 4chan user not exaggerating. He actually made a complete
understatement. People aren't just cheering her on, they're calling both her boyfriend and her child scum. What surprised me even further is that, while I know a large portion of Redditors look towards abortion with disturbingly gleeful admiration, they seem to have extended this to the child who is twelve years of age, acting as if the child is still subhuman. Just to get an idea, here are some of the top rated comments:
Now, compare to some of the lowest rated comments. Some of which even agree with the thread's poster, but maintains that the child deserves to at least know who their mother is:
I'm aware it's a tired argument to suggest, "what if the sexes were swapped!?" But what if we were to do just that--and tone it down, even? Imagine it was a man who didn't want a child at all, but decided to conceive one because his girlfriend wouldn't stop begging, with the girlfriend making the promise that she'll disappear from his life and take the child with her once it's done. Then, over a decade later, the child wants to meet their father and the mother contacts him, and he refuses while disowning the child. This
very Reddit would have his head on a pike.
Also keep in mind that this woman is an untrustworthy narrator, as to be expected for any personal story told online. There's every reason in the world to believe her involvement in the situation is much worse than she's willing to present to an audience. She's most likely either lying about some details or leaving them out to make herself look better, and she already looks horrible.
www.reddit.com
". It would be blatantly hypocritical if reddit did not extend their pro get-out-of-parenting-free belief to apply to women.
