Over on A Voice for Men, our dear friend Paul Elam has come up with an interesting new way to celebrate Mother’s Day – with what is essentially the longest, least funny, and most rage-filled “Yo Mama” joke ever. (Indeed, it’s so rage-filled I should probably put a Trigger Warning right about here.)
Elam starts off by addressing the mothers of the world, suggesting he’s got a “a socially conscious twist” on the traditional Mother’s Day celebrations. Mothers, he argues, should gather together the flowers they’ve been given by their loved ones and:
Place a bunch of daffodils at a dumpster near you, perhaps one in which one of you, or one of your kind, has tossed an unwanted baby, leaving it there to slowly die alone in a pile of trash.
Perhaps you could lay a single rose at the base of a bridge that has been used by a mother to throw her baby into an icy river. Perhaps you can lay it there with hands that have beaten or shaken a baby to death.
You probably didn’t see that coming, did you? He goes on.
Now perhaps some of you could place large, colorful arrangements at the abortion centers where women go to have children cut out and laid to rest in those colorful and attractive biohazard containers that are all the rage in the clinics. …
Maybe you can lay virtual flowers at your computers to honor all the children that you and your sisters have pimped out to pedophiles, or perhaps the blossoms could be placed in your child’s room, which also doubles as your preferred place to abuse your own.
Oh, but you say you haven’t done any of these things, and that abortion isn’t actually the same as infanticide? No matter. Elam has an answer for that:
This is not a request for some mothers, or a percentage of them, but all of you. In fact, you don’t even have to be a mother. If you have a vagina, the blood of all those children, who are abused far more at the hands of women than men, has stained your skin and caked around the cuticles of your fingers.
If you are a mother, particularly one of the many abusers, or just one that has remained silent as your sisters have beaten, choked, stabbed, burned, drowned, abused, neglected, dumped, tortured and otherwise done the unspeakable to the most defenseless among us, then I hope to see those flowers in your murderous hands, paying homage to those that have been unfortunate enough to be placed in your path. …
In Daffodils for Dumpsters the gash gets you in, and you don’t really have a choice.
You see, Elam has decided that we live in an era of “collective guilt,” and that the evil (straw) feminists who go around blaming all men for the actions of a few – through such dastardly things like rape awareness seminars – deserve to find themselves collectively blamed as well.
Except that Elam’s post goes well beyond an ill-conceived and ill-intentioned attempt at “turnabout is fair play.” This isn’t a piece of Swiftian satire. He actually believes all this hateful nonsense, and says as much:
Now, do I really mean all this? Yes. It is not that women deserve to be collectively regarded as child abusers and killers. Most aren’t. Most are actually very good to their children and can even be trusted with the children of others. But that truth is not what is important here.
What is important is the children, or the principle, or whatever other bullshit we make up to convince ourselves it is not about demonizing women when that is exactly what we are doing.
I have to confess I have no idea what he’s trying to say in the second paragraph here. Did he mean to say “men” instead of “women?” If so, this is an interesting little slip.
He continues:
The fact is that mothers are more dangerous than fathers where it concerns children. They always have been. It is only a few percentage points in that direction, but of course in a White Ribbon way, it is more than enough to justify pointing a finger at your entire sex and feeling superior as we watch you atone for the unspeakable acts of a minority.
So, suck it up ladies. If you knew about White Ribbon and said nothing to object to it; if in general you have remained silent or actively participated as the image of the male half of the population has been reduced to that of a depraved threat, the step up and get your flowers. You deserve every last petal, stem and thorn.
I imagine Elam chuckling a bit as he typed that final word.
And a happy Mother’s Day to you, too!
Oh, and if you found yourself wondering about that “White Ribbon” thing, Elam is evidently (as best I can figure it) referring either to the women who, during World War I, handed out white ribbons to men who didn’t enlist in the army. Or he’s referring to this contemporary campaign to fight violence against women. But I don’t live inside Elam’s head, so I’m not sure what he meant, or why he seems to think that all women would know about either campaign, much less have any responsibility for them.
NOTE: Elam is also celebrating Mother’s Day by suggesting I had something to do with creating Reddit’s appalling “beatingwomen” subreddit as part of a nefarious plot to make the Men’s Rights movement look even worse than it manages to do on its own.
You may notice that Elam presents no actual evidence to back up his claims. There is no such evidence, because Elam’s accusations are utterly and completely untrue.
I have nothing whatsoever to do with r/beatingwomen. Nothing. I don’t know anything about who created it, or what their aim was beyond laughing at pictures and videos of violence against women. As I’ve said before, it’s a vile place. I think Reddit should shut it down.
Paul Elam is a disgusting piece of fillth. He is like one of those vampires from the movie Daybreakers, feeding on himself continually until he is transformed into a monster.
I also noticed there are an appalling number of typos and mistakes in that post. Perhaps someone is too angry to proofread?
Elam is vile. Sorry he’s so fixated on you.
the thing about mother’s day is that paul elam isn’t going to stand for a holiday where he as no chance of being the center of attention
What the everloving fuck? So, Paul, exactly what are you doing for children besides writing tortured prose on the internet that would make a 13 year-old girl with Twilightmania say, “This sucks.”
I wonder if he called his mom today and what he called her.
Fuck this guy sideways.
The guy who just posted a screed shitting all over Mother’s Day with a veiled complaint about how hard it is for men that rape is socially unacceptable is accusing you of trying to make him look bad?
the hilarious thing about elam’s tough guy routine is that even compared to other so-called mrm leaders, he’s a gigantic fucking coward. he hides on avfm, where he’s in complete control and can ban anyone who criticizes him, and he doesn’t dare set foot anywhere he might actually be challenged. what a fucking baby.
OMFG, now they have a new rap video up at AVfM. I can’t embed on my tablet. Could someone please grab it, for laughs?
Paul Elam — the intellectual equivalent of a seven year old asking, “When is ‘Kid’s Day!?'” Just pat him on the head and say, “Every day is Kid’s Day,” just like our parents did.
he does kind of alright until about the minute mark when he actually starts trying to rap and then his flow is just the worst thing ever
Is nothing safe from these dickbags? I thought rap was too alpha thug for them
I think the rapper must have a misandrist engineer, given how shitty this sounds. There’s so much obviously-unintentional distortion on both the vocals and the music.
Dude, turn your levels down. Use compression or a limiter or something.
Sharculese…
You are a braver person than I ever will be.
I hope Elam is inspired by this to start rapping all his posts.
@hellkell
Elam doesn’t have a mother. He sprouted from his father’s nutsack as a fully formed MAN.
Most of the comments over at AVfM seem to be of the variety “I hate rap, but this is great.” ‘Nuff said.
Hey, folks, if after listening to that rap, you feel a bit sick, allow me to prescribe an antidote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUbw9FydTZM
You’re welcome.
Who wrote that bullshit rap, Jade Michael?
I’ve had a really good couple of days so I’m just going to ignore Elam.
Happy Mother’s Day, moms! I wish you and your families a lovely day.
What an asshole.
it’s not like there’s even a shortage of rap that’s full of mra-ish sentiments anyway
i still maintain that nas perfectly summed up the mra attitude in the first couple lines of one love.
Wow that was terrible! So they have 3 anthems now, right? And each one so painfully bad each in its own unique way.
Oh and happy mothers day to you too, Paul. But I certainly hope my mom doesn’t put the flowers I got her in a dumpster, because I paid my hard-earned firefighting coal-mining mammoth-hunting man-dollars for those things. It’d be a shame for them to go to waste, even for such a worthy cause as hating all women ever.
@red_locker, Thanks, that was a nice brain cleanser.
Here’s another, for anyone who needs one:
@Sharculese
I don’t know, One Love doesn’t feel so MRAish since it’s a tale of one relationship. Pussy Kills on the other hand…
And in recognition of Mother’s Day