Wow. Rape-flavored SPAM?

[DirkGently]

Since we're on the topic, again, thought I'd share a more or less horrific little piece of SPAM I just noticed in my junk folder. Not the usual Nigerian princes or UK lottery win notices this time.

How to make any woman want you…?

Scientists at Harvad University have discovered a strange secret
that allows you to control women's minds...

And make them want to sleep with you.

This free video shows you how the secret works:

Click Here To Watch <-----------------

LINK DELETED BY DG

Women worldwide are OUTRAGED because they trusted the
scientists to use their research for good...

But instead they have discovered the secret to making women
horney and attracted to you

Note: This is not your standard "aphrodisiac" claim. Women are "OUTRAGED" because you will "control their minds."

The SPAMMERS even included their address, in case you want to write for the video instead of following the link. Tried Google mapping, which doesn't work unless you remove a suffix at the end, at which point it comes back as being a Dallas, TX pizza joint. M'kay.

Not that I want to stir THAT exhausting pot again, but isn't this is the kind of excretia produced by what some call "rape culture?" Effective? Probably not. I nearly zapped it without a second thought. But is it indicative of an ugly current running through our cultural waters?

Could be.

[Warpy]

1. Heh, fools and their money...

[DirkGently]

7. Interestingly, the link says the "video" is free.

I suspect it could be a tease to load up some kind of malware, which is why I killed the link. Brainwashing women into bed is apparently some kind of, as arley says, dumbass bait.

[redqueen]

11. Also a big part of PUA theory.

Hypnotizing women into going against their better judgment.

Charming, yes?

[DirkGently]

14. Just looked up "PUA." "Pick Up Artist?" This is a thing?

[redqueen]

15. Oh yes. Not a new thing, but an ugly thing.

Try PUA + neuro linguistic programming, or maybe PUA + last minute resistance

I'm sure the men who consider themselves part of that group don't think there's any such thing as rape culture.

[DirkGently]

25. Sweet Jesus. It's some kind of self-help guru profit cult ...

about hypnotizing women into bed?

I ... Okay, look. If you wanted to create something in order to make a slam -dunk, and frankly too spot-on, claim that rape culture exists in America, wouldn't it be this?

A guru infomercial / brain tech cult scam ... about *tricking women into bed* with ... wait for it ... The Power of your Mind.

Not funny. Not at all. But there is a hideous ridiculousness here, surely. This is an evil cartoon.

We are living in an evil cartoon.

[Warpy]

13. Exactly

If any of the BS actually worked, there would be no reason to lace women's drinks with drugs to knock them out so their inert and non consenting bodies could be masturbated into.

I agree it's a tease to install malware. That would be my first guess.

[arely staircase]

2. more like dumbass flavored SPAM

eom

[LittleBlue]

3. "Harvad University"

[arely staircase]

5. whose scientists promised they would "use their research for good."

[Liberal Veteran]

6. It's the top rated Ivy League school for dyslexics.

[dipsydoodle]

8. lol

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[DirkGently]

10. Clever, eh? These are geniuses of the Internetz.

[redqueen]

4. Yes, it is an example of rape culture.

The idea that anyone would want to 'control' someone, and use that control to force them to have sex with them, yeah... not really confusing at all. That's rape.

[nashville_brook]

9. this wouldn't exist as a marketing pitch if it didn't jibe w/rape culture

the fact that they're pushing this button is yet another example of that culture.

[DirkGently]

12. Well this was my thought. This is bait. Bait for the stupid,

sure. But note that whatever the scam is, they think this bait will work. Not the usual appeal to greed or even inflating one's manhood.

[gollygee]

17. That was my thought too

Obviously not very bright people, but it wouldn't even occur to them to use it as a marketing tool if there weren't a rape culture. The assumption is that this bait would work.

[Cleita]

16. Whew! At first I thought you were talking about real Spam. n/t

[dawg]

19. Oh, my brain is so tired, I did too.

I was thinking, rapeseed oil in the Spam maybe?

[Cleita]

23. LOL! Rapeseed, of course! n/t

[DirkGently]

27. There is no way I am making a joke here.

No. Way.

[Cleita]

29. Good thinking!

[MattBaggins]

18. We need someone to track these bastards down

If only we had a holistic detective or something.

[DirkGently]

22. I know a guy. But he's a crappy SPAM catcher. Sad, really.

[Initech]

20. I get disgusting shit like this in my inbox all the time.

Buy Viagra/Cialis! Russian mail order brides! These hotties want you!! Thank god for outlook's junk detector!

[dawg]

21. All that "pick up artist" stuff really creeps me out.

I want women to want to have sex with me because I'm so sexy and adorable. Trying to use psychology to "trick" women into bed with you is just wrong.

[Cleita]

24. I never understood why anyone would want to have sex with anyone

who didn't want sex with them. I mean that goes for both genders. I know women sometimes think that every man wants to be in bed with them. All they have to do is give the signal. But it's not true and men are often unwillingly pursued by women they are not turned on to. It isn't just the guys who push themselves onto unwilling women. If you are so desperate to need to get someone drunk or drugged to get them to have sex with you, you are a pathetic loser.

And I know all dogs are adorable.

[DirkGently]

31. That. That is the thing. Pursuit of the unwilling.

We have all kinds of mixed signals about men pursuing women to start with, but there is also darker background noise like this, about men "getting" a woman who is unwilling or has said no. That's not something anyone should want from anyone. But we don't treat as being as dark and bent as it really is.

[dawg]

33. Thanks.

I don't know if all dogs are adorable, though. There is a vicious basset hound that chases me every time I ride my bicycle down his road.

[Cleita]

34. Maybe he's jealous of your dawgitude. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

38. All dogs are adorable!

Even that little Basset Hound.

[DirkGently]

26. It's weirdly, overtly, self-annihilatingly wrong.

[Warren DeMontague]

32. Last time I was single, email was still new and people were still using netscape.

This stuff is very odd to me.

I have to say my spam filter works great. I haven't seen any spam in a long time. I probably miss some legit emails, too, but fuck 'em.

[DirkGently]

35. I look at the subject lines.

There are a few orgs or people that may not be contacts, that I'd want to read. So I have a vague idea of what the Spam ecology is like. The fake lottery stuff. Virility pills. "Seeking your advice ... "

This stuff I hadn't noticed yet. Creepier than even the Russian 'bots that have the "harmonious body and the eyes of blue."

Gack.

[99Forever]

28. It's called SPAM for a reason.

That some people think it is actually representative of how a significant percentage of men think, makes me think they are about as bright as anyone who would respond to the SPAM.

P T Barnum was exactly right.

[DirkGently]

36. There's no shortage of people who respond to SPAM.

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That's why it exists. And the fact that spammers think their audience is lured by this particular type of stupid is a point in and of itself.

[99Forever]

37. I have no idea what your point is.

I get SPAM ads for lots of stupid shit all the time. If the asses sending it out get 1 response in 100,000, it would surprise me. Not significant no matter what significance you want to imagine it has. But you run with your poutrage, if it make you feel better. Means squat to me.

[DirkGently]

39. I agree you have no idea what my point is.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Basically the same target market as these ads.

Remember them?

[DirkGently]

40. Old as snake oil. You can trace a line on this type of sales pitch back forever.

I saw someone opining that there's no audience looking to "buy," but these things wouldn't have been around all this time if that were true.