Comments on: Because They Are Afraid

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:19:19 +0000

I’m just to the East, surrounded by Eglin AFB, in Okaloosa County.

I really don’t understand how they can convince women that this kind of thought is good for them.

Oh, I like your pun, as much as I like his music.

By: Plutonious Monk

Plutonious Monk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:30:14 +0000

Bryan, you’re right–I was being a bit off-base in the sterotypes. And yes, I’m familiar with Adams Apple Annie, Michelle, and the Fred Phelps spawn.
By the way -where did you live on the Gulf Coast? I spent 18 months in Pensacola in the 70’s working for the Navy. — PM

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:39:01 +0000

Paul, you may be right, but until the forensics come in we don’t know when the attacks actually started. While many things occur at lightspeed on the ‘Net, these attacks have to build momentum. You are certainly aware that hate is not rational, and there is a massive amount of hate directed towards the site and Melissa.

PM, you are guilty of stereotyping and leaving out such luminaries as Ms. Malkin, Ms. Coulter, and Fred Phelp’s daughter. Haters come in all shapes and sizes, and that is forgotten at our peril. I do admit that you are probably correct about the general description of the individual responsible for these attacks, although I suspect he is younger.

By: Plutonious Monk

Plutonious Monk — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:05:10 +0000

Shakesville’s haters and detractors are apparently those somewhat subnormal males whose manhood is predicated not on their temperament or character or on their self-confidence and strength but rather on their need to feel important through hatred and viciousness toward females. These shrunken ball cretins are typically found at NASCAR events, mega fundamentalist churches, right wing websites and in supermarkets where Cheetoes are sold at big discounts. They are often 30 or 40 years of age but still get their kicks from porno masturbation, fart jokes, video games, car crash movies, raw.com, listening to Toby Keith and furtive late night forays into parks to meet and meat with like- minded adult boys.. They worship Gerge W. Bush’s empty codpiece, watch and agree 100% with everything on Faux News and support war on a massive scale but have never, never will, and never could serve in the military.. . They openly express express their contempt for all females, masculine men, black folk, people with a liberal arts degree, Asians, Hispanics, French people, the well-to-do, etc., etc..

By: Paul the Spud

Paul the Spud — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:08:34 +0000

With all due respect Bryan, I've got a pretty good idea of what posts and topics are causing these attacks on Melissa. And these attacks are specifically towards her, not Shakesville. I'm not saying it was that post specifically that caused the DoS attack, but every time something like this happens, it is almost always due to a rape post.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:35:56 +0000

Paul, Shakesville deals with the hate people have that is based on their fear. They are acting on the fear, as the currently government has encouraged them to do.

I grew up down here on the Gulf Coast, where there were “White” and “Colored” signs on nearly everything. Most of the people who put up those signs didn’t hate or fear black people, but they were afraid of what white people would do to them if they didn’t put up the signs. They didn’t believe in what the signs represented, but they did believe in the violence of the people who wanted them.

The attack started a day or more before anyone noticed the effect. You can’t just thrown a switch and get an instant DoS attack when you are using a script. It takes time for the script to propagate and for resources to be highjacked. You can’t nail it down to a single post, although one may have been the triggering event. Remember, this is the second event, so they have been working on this for a while.

By: Paul the Spud

Paul the Spud — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:48:58 +0000

On a particularly disgusting note, I should let you all know that this DoS attack happened after Melissa's latest "Rape is Hilarious" post. Ever since the Opie & Anthony fiasco, a new legion of knuckle-dragging rape apologists have been keeping their eyes on Shakesville, and pounce the second Melissa writes anything about rape. Although their politics most certainly run opposite to our opinions on the blog, that is not what this attack is about. These people shut down Shakesville because Melissa has the gall to say that Rape Is Bad. That's what this is about.

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By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:17:00 +0000

Let him know that I really reduced it by closing comments and pings after 30 days, and I periodically delete spam, not just mark it, to keep the comments database a reasonable size for backups.

There was a month when it just flooded the site.

By: Shakeseville Victim of of Right-Wing DOS Attacks « Semidi

Shakeseville Victim of of Right-Wing DOS Attacks « Semidi — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:55:50 +0000

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