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People really seem to be taking offense to the reputation of gooners taking a hit with this piece.
If you're a gooner and NOT assaulting women in public, you're probably fine and this article isn't talking about you.
Someone that goons is engaging a form of extended masturbation without climax. That is not sexual assault. What people are worried about is that gooning will be equated with sexual assault, because they are not the same thing. Not all gooners are rapists, and not all rapists are gooners. Furthermore, if a person wants to goon, they shouldn't have to worry about their reputation over it.
I mean that's just edging. Gooning is generally more disfunctional than that, typically involving excessive amounts of pornography for an extended period of time combined with an excessively self-deprecating mindset. Gooning should honestly be seen as a form of sexual dysfunction in a similar vein to porn addiction
I completely agree. That doesn't mean that these men committing these particular sexual assaults are NOT gooners though.
Gooning on it's own is totally fine. Using gooning to justify attacking people and performing sexual acts without consent is not.
The authors still should have used the the correct term "sharking" in the headline instead of randomly throwing gooners under the bus, apparently just because it's a term people would actually recognize.
Did you read the article?
There are groups of gooners that come together to encourage these acts and share videos of them. These particular gooner groups are using the terms "sharking" and "tagging" to describe these sexual assaults.
That doesn't mean that all gooners are doing this.
Why tf are y'all acting like being a gooner means one is immune from being a perpetrator?
I’m a Batman goon and I’m ashamed
BOOM!
Thank goodness I stick to men and boys.
Some people have no sense of humor. You are some people.
This is a news community and this post is about sexual assault victims.
This is not a shitposting community.
Don't you have something better to do than antagonize people who post news articles about sexually motivated assault by pretending to be a child molester?
"Everyone thinks I'm an asshole because everyone but me is stupid."
Sure, Jan.
No, people can see how disgusting your comments are and act accordingly.
Why the fuck do you care what I post? If you don't like it, ignore it.
You keep replying. Hitting block now. Thxbye
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a week. You showed up, took a shit in the yard (this post in a news community), the homeowner came outside of the house (replied to your idiocy) and called you disgusting, so you doubled down, called her a Karen, and blocked her? Holy shit the lack of self awareness, batman! You're partially right to be fair. There is a Karen here who is very entitled. It isn't who you think it is though. Please learn to read the room.
Fucking finally.