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The disturbing rise of ‘gooner’ assaults at Dollar Tree stores: ‘They find it funny to degrade women’
(www.theguardian.com)
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My point is that the article mentions this is called sharking and then instead of saying they're a "sharker" it says they're a "gooner."
The online forums they're talking about here are the gooning forums and the social media posts from these gooners. The people in these communities call these actions "sharking" or "tagging".
I'm aware that you're offended by the framing of the article about gooners. They're specifically talking about the men who cross boundaries and assault women in the pursuit of gooning, not all people who indulge in gooning.
The problem is that later they associate sharking with gooning as if the two are extremely closely related and then go so far as to label the sexual assaulter in the headline a "gooner" instead of a sharker. As if trying to edge for a long time is somehow a slippery slope that leads to people ejaculating on women in public. It's disgusting.
Sharking and gooning are two totally unrelated things. One is sexual assault. One is glorified edging.
They found these public assaults posted in gooning communities by the perpetrators.
These men are self-labeled gooners who are assaulting women.
If you're a gooner and only edging and NOT assaulting women, this article isn't talking about you.
The article never mentions any of this being posted to "gooning communities" (unless I missed something). It mentions "an amateur porn site", "OnlyFans", and "an incel forum."
The closest thing I can find to mentioning these being uploaded to gooning communities specifically is this from when it talked about gooners.
But all it says is "online", it doesn't say where it's been posted online. Notably, this paragraph is also before the others, so it could easily be referring to the other places mentioned later and not a fourth location.
Why would they post a direct link to these online gooning communities?
Need some pointers on how to find them?
Huh?
Why would the reporters tell you exactly where these gooning communities are when they’re encouraging public attacks on women?
Are you so curious that you just need to check it out for yourself?
I’ve seen gooners in various porn and sex communities on various forms of social media. Listing out seeing these posts on Onlyfans and such doesn’t rule out that they’re gooners.
What the fuck are you talking about? I'm just disagreeing that it says the article says they're posted to "gooner communities." It lists three specific locations and never mentions "gooner communities." You mentioned that yourself.
They absolutely talk about gooners posting the videos of these attacks on those sites. Those specific locations aren't immune from gooners posting on those sites.
Why are you going so hard to defend gooners here when we're all very specifically talking about men in these communities who go out in public and assault women in order to share with those communities? That doesn't mean all gooners are doing this.
If you don't get why it's concerning to me to equate "gooner" with "sexual assaulter" then reread my first comment here where I laid it out very plainly. If the headline was something like "the worrying trend amongst bondage enthusiasts murdering women" I'd have the same issues. It's part of a broader trend of society demonizing and othering any sort of kink. There's nothing inherently wrong with gooning. There's a lot that's very wrong about sexual assault.
I mean, for fuck's sake, the article cites evolutionary biology as a reason why there's no reason to cum on someone's body. How is that anything other than fear mongering? And you're wondering why I don't see this as something that's trying to enforce heteronormativity? And then when I point out that you're doing similar things by equating these locations with "gooner communities" your reaction is to accuse me of seeking out videos of sexual assault? Get a grip.
No, it cites evolutionary biology to reinforce that cumming on women is an act of degradation. Some people are into those acts of degradation in their sex life which is totally fine as long as it's consensual.
These men are self-identified gooners assaulting women in their pursuit of sexual gratification and bragging to other gooners.
You're making the mistake of thinking the article is pushing that every gooner out there are committing these crimes when it's just some of them.
No reply about randomly accusing me wanting to seek out videos of sexual assault?
You're vehemently defending gooner communities and complained that the journalists for the Guardian didn't specifically point you to the gooning communities where they found these assault videos.
Why do you want to know where exactly these gooning communities with the assault videos are?
Jesus fucking Christ, you're a trip...
No reply about why you want to know exactly where these online communities are?
Go find where I said I wanted to know exactly where they were, because that's not something I did. I disagreed with you, you didn't like it, and your reaction to that was to say I must be looking for videos of sexual assault. You're only trying to paint me as a monster and hurt me, all because I disagreed with something you said. I'm done with this conversation unless you're willing to apologize. Life is too short to accept this behavior.
I don't like how you're trying to defend gooners when the article is clearly laying out that some men in these gooning communities are assaulting women. It's not that you disagreed with me. It's that you're looking for plausible deniability in order to protect gooning.
Gooning by itself is fine as long as it's consensual and no one is being hurt. That's not what is happening in these cases laid out by the article.