Paul Elam, head ranter at A Voice for Men, has a new video out called “You want privilege? You got it!” The thesis: if women really did have the so-called privileges that men have, they’d hate it and want men to take them all back. Because all of these so-called privileges are really giant burdens. Or, as Elam puts it, somewhat more melodramatically, these privileges have “begun to more resemble an anchor around your neck than the helm of a great ship that everyone tells you that you are captaining.”
Here’s the video.
Well, all right, that’s not really Paul Elam. But that little clip does capture pretty well the tone of his latest post, which is indeed about how male privilege is really a terrible burden.
I mean, this is his opener:
I swear by everything holy that the next time I hear some fembot caterwaul about “male privilege,” I am going to find something to break, turn it into shards, and drag the broken pieces across my chest just to distract me from the pain of their increasing stupidity. Just picture me like Martin Sheen, collapsed in a heap of bloody, tearful insanity on the floor of a cheap hotel in Saigon.
Heck, compared to that, Mr. McDuck’s reaction to the news about his “ice cream” was, if anything, rather restrained.
The rest of Elam’s post is, as is typical for him, a rather trite recitation of a number of standard Men’s Rights talking points about male “disposability” written in some of the most ridiculously overblown prose ever seen outside of an Ayn Rand novel.
Elam complains that he hasn’t seen much benefit from his privileges:
Mind you I still don’t know what that privilege is. One time when I was young and very poor I was late on my light bill. I showed the electric company my balls, but they cut my power off anyway. …
Yeah, as someone who’s also had his power cut off, I’m pretty sure they do that with everyone. I’m also pretty sure that no feminist has ever or will ever argue that male privilege means you won’t get your power cut off for nonpayment.
Here’s Elam addressing women as if they’ve traded place with men:
With your privilege comes the right to work on crab boats, drive trucks, work on electric lines, walk into burning buildings and sink into the bowels of the earth digging out coal and other things people find useful.
Apparently having greater occupational choices is scary and bad.
When a ship goes down, or any other life threatening disaster strikes, you have two choices. Be a real woman and die, or treat your life like it has value and have the world shit on you as a coward who refused to perish on cue. There is also the possibility of third option, either die from the disaster so that men can live, or have another woman blow a fucking hole in your face with a pistol because you tried to save yourself.
Yeah, I believe we may have addressed this earlier. Oh, but there’s more:
Like noticing the emperor has no clothes, it may hit you one day when you decide not to offer your seat to a man; when the stares at you from all around seem to come down people’s noses. …
You must learn not to say a word. Not to anyone else, not even to yourself. You must learn to see flames, coal dust, icy saltwater, death and sacrifice for the trappings of power that the world around you thinks them to be.
Says a dude typing out his manifestos on an expensive laptop he conned nagged his followers into buying for him.
And you must be willing to hang your head in shame over that power, even as the world chews you up, spits you out, and gets ready to take its turn with your daughter.
Elam’s rousing conclusion:
So, that is it, ladies. You want my privilege, it is yours. I will gladly hand it over to you this very minute. I am just waiting for you to meet the pre-requisites of disposibilty and an utter lack of self-value. I am waiting for you to woman up to the job, take off your fucking make up and be ready to bleed, blah blah blah look at me I’m mad!
I paraphrased a little at the end there. But, yes, the world champion at seeing male “disposability” everywhere did in fact misspell the word “disposability.” That was all him. And so, believe it or not, is the following:
I, like a Jew gone weary of being called a chosen one, am completely ready for anyone else, and in particular, you, to be chosen.
Personally, I have had about all the privilege I can stand.
Yep. He went there.
Also, I don’t know if you all knew this, but when women serve in the military these days it’s “like a day care camp for them.”
Also, not to pat myself on the back or anything, but my headline is much better than his. Maybe he should get me to write all the headlines on A Voice for Angry Duck Plutocrats Men.
Discuss.
Every false accusation story I’ve heard of has ended with “so I never faced any legal proceedings and I stayed in school/at my job and all my friends and family rallied around me and the girl was ostracized forever… but I was VERY NEARLY INCONVENIENCED.”
William:
Come on now. Duke. Strass-Kahn.
…Yup.
WWB, keep company like Zarat, and I think women swarming you won’t exactly be a problem.
Over/under on this being another MRAL sock?
Yeah, CPS is always super eager to help 17-year-old girls move in with strange older men they met in parking lots.
You poor baby, what a terrible thing didn’t happen to you even in the story you just made up.
You dumbasses, since you’re making up stories anyway, you could at least make up ones that prove your point.
Okay, this is a new level of horrible I hadn’t even anticipated.
Men who actually raped women and were VERY NEARLY INCONVENIENCED.
fuuuuck
Cliff, in both cases the defendants were acquitted. Certainly in the Duke case, there is very little doubt that they were classic victims of a false accusation. The accuser in the SK case also seems to be a false accusing scumbag.
Also, isn’t the fact that having another woman in the house would be “protection” for you just evidence of yet another way rapists get away with it?
When you’re discussing your wily ways of protecting yourselves from false rape accusations, do me a favor and leave out the ones that would protect actual rapists just as well. 🙁
As rapists usually are.
Seriously, what’s your evidence in either the Duke or DSK case?
I’m going to blow your mind here, but sometimes people say they’re innocent even though they aren’t innocent.
I know, it’s a wild world we live in.
Details?
The 17 year old was called Melissa. Melissa is one of the most obese women I have ever seen in my life. Melissa attended AA meetings while she was in my apartment, and did not drink. She put a $2000 bill on my phone by dialing 1-900 “psychic” numbers. The phone company never made me pay the bill because I told them Melissa was underage. After she failed to pass the GED, her father let her move back. I borrowed $500 from a credit card and gave it to her as she climbed onto her Grayhound buss to go home. She never wrote me or contacted me again. From time to time, I fantasize that somehow the kindness of a stranger eventually helped her find her way. When the 4 year statute of limitations on rape passed, I silently felt very relieved.
The grad school buddy who I started a move-in relationship with to protect me from a false rape claim is a stunningly beautiful woman with a perfect body, and I mean PERFECT. Maybe in part because she was surprised by the odd act of kindness, she fell insanely in love with me. I tried everything that I could think of to get her to forget me, or to find another man. Nothing worked. She became violently possessive. She would hit me over such trivial “offenses” as not having an adequate answer to the question “did you like the girl who was teller at the bank?” when I withdrew money.
She threatened suicide. When that stopped working, she threatened to falsely accuse me of domestic violence if I left her. When that did not work, she used the phone receiver to split her lip, said she was going to call the cops, and said “do you think anyone will believe you NOW?” The only way I was finally able to leave her was to get an audio recording of her threats. The audio device made an audible “click” when the tape finished, so I eventually had to “agree” to get back with her, to get her away from the device before the noise revealed its presence. She demanded and received “reconciliation” sex.
The next day I woke up early, secured my audio tape, and left. She called the police and falsely accused me of domestic violence. I called back and told the police that I had an audio recording of the whole thing. I accused her of raping me, because she had used the threat of a false accusation to obtain sex from me (many times). The police never even listened to the audio tape, told me “coercion is not rape”, and never investigated her story either. All of this is contrary to Florida law.
As part of the process of getting away from her, I persuaded “us” to move into a “better” apartment. I lied. I had no intention of giving up my own lease, and no intention of ever moving into “our” new apartment. As a result, she won a sizeable civil lawsuit against me for non-payment of my half of the rent (because my name was on the lease). I was happy to pay, because I knew the “victory” was necessary for her to get over me. I have no ill will towards her, and I wish her well. She is a doctor, married, living in Canada. She looks like Freida Pinto:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freida_Pinto
Criminy! WWB, would it comfort you to know that you too “can essentially ruin a man’s life at any time with a false accusation”?
Would it provide even more comfort to you to know that men can and do essentially ruin womens lives by bearing false witness?
It just seems bizarre to me that in the face of the reality of rape and abuse, well documented, you are entirely focused on what some woman might possibly maybe could do that could embarrass you. Narcissist much?
Actually William, I don’t think that is clear at all. To you it is of course, but that’s understandable, you being you and everything. *psst hellkell I bet one internet that this is yet another mral sock*
Whereas SK is just a scumbag. Who rapes.
Cliff, so how do you determine who is “really” innocent? By any measure Duke was a sham. SK, probably was too.
Actually, your attitude is very illustrative- you’re not unique, sadly. This is exactly what I mean when I say any woman can ruin a man’s life at any time, with a false accusation. People (such as yourself) will consider him a rapist.
Anthony, can you back me up here? Boobland is more radical than I thought.
There’s not actually any evidence that the woman was lying regarding Strauss-Kahn, merely her past, which isn’t actually relevant to the charges. So even if he were convicted that wouldn’t be where you make your stand.
Oh, AntZ, do you have that story in a Word doc ready to deploy? It’s so cute. Too bad it never happened.
You are a warped goddamn man.
And let me get this straight… she never even threatened to false-rape-accuse you or talked about it or anything? But you just figured because she was female it was sure to happen sooner or later?
…And you think she’s the one with the problem?
…Oh, now there’s another false accusation in AntZ’s story and this one involves female-on-male rape as well?
Anyone want to start an over/under on how long it takes until he mentions he was spermjacked too?
Oh do fuck of William. Of course you know someone. You MRAs always seem to know someone…it never happens to you though.
Strauss Khan was most likely guilty. There was DNA evidence and bruising of the victim’s cervix.
Why don’t you freaks actually tell us what you want to do about false accusations? because they unfortunately happen sometimes…like false accusations of other crimes happen too.
Yeah, and poor DSK has only his riches, fame, family, friends, and many many supporters to comfort him.
RUINED
Strass-Kahn and the Duke boys are not only not in jail, none of them have a criminal record, all of them are doing well in their respective spheres of influence.
So, again, a case where someone was falsely accused of rape and had their live RUINED by the false accusation.
Cliff, I’d prefer to focus on the Duke case, because that, to me, is a classic false accusation case. Do you seriously think those lacrosse players are rapists? There is literally zero evidence against them that was not fabricated by a scumbag lawyer who is now disbarred, and abundant evidence to the contrary.
“…Oh, now there’s another false accusation in AntZ’s story and this one involves female-on-male rape as well?”
I guess I have lived an interesting life:
At 13, my mother gave me to her friends as a sex-toy.
Antz, oh boy. When I asked for more details I didn’t mean “was the 17 year old HOTTTTTTTT?” I was asking because, I dunno, people don’t usually offer out of the blue to let people they don’t know live with them. And apparently your experience, if your new story is true, shows why this tends to be the case.
Now you’ve added even more implausible details onto your original implausible tale.
What I’d like to hear are details that might explain why you acted in such a strange fashion with both of these women. (And which might make your story sound vaguely plausible.)
I like how he thinks linking to some actress and saying his ex looked like that is suppose to make it more believable when in fact it makes it appear the opposite.
I’ll be honest and say I do not wish to know how far down Antz is going to take his tale of extremely improbable events.