Paul Elam is a 55-year-old man who once told a feminist foe that “the idea of fucking your shit up gives me an erection.” Today he’s launched a campaign of defamation against a college student that’s clearly intended to intimidate her and other feminists into silence. The alleged crimes of this woman, whom Elam identifies by name? Possibly attending a demonstration against MRA author Warren Farrell at the University of Toronto, possibly tearing down posters for the event, and making a couple of jokes on Twitter. Oh, and she also once suggested that Farrell was a misogynist.
Elam has not yet revealed what effect this new campaign has had upon his penis.
While her (apparent) attendance at the anti-Farrell demonstration is what brought the young woman to Elam’s attention, he seems particularly puzzled and enraged by two jokey comments she made on Twitter. In one of them, she joked that her “political position” was “kill all men hail satan.” In the other, she said she was thinking about getting knuckle tattoos that spell out “misandry.”
These jokey comments have evidently convinced Elam that
She doesn’t just hate men; doesn’t just want them dead or silenced or marginalized or ignored. She at least entertains the idea of permanently marking her skin with that hatred, like a convict signaling gang affiliation.
Pretty harsh words from someone whose YouTube handle used to be TheHappyMisogynist. (Check the URL here.)
So what exactly is the point of publicizing her name, which will give the assholes now posting rape threats and other violent shit about the demonstrators at that Warren Farrell protest the real name of a real, live person to harass?
Elam, while carefully avoiding any direct incitement of harassment and/or violence, makes clear that his aim is to “stop her.”
[She] is not going to stop. And no one at the University of Toronto is going to stop her. We can figure that one out by the fact that they chartered clubs to enable that kind of conduct.
For that reason, we bring her to public attention here at AVfM.
Additionally, over the next two days, she will be listed on register-her.com as a known bigot, and her image and name will find a place on our display of featured offenders.
Elam promises to do the same, by name, to others who attended the protest as well.
The best way to strike back at Elam’s campaign to shut up critics of his hateful Men’s Rights ideology? Make more noise.
If anyone is interested in reaching out to the student and any others who may be targeted by Elam, please contact me or leave a comment below. And if anyone knows how to contact her, please send me an email.
(Also, at one point Elam describes Farrell as “an individual who has dedicated a lifetime to helping children in trouble.” Oh, is that what he was doing when he was working on a book that he said would highlight the alleged “positive” aspects of incest?)
EDITED TO ADD: Just to make clear, this woman is not the same woman that Elam and JohnTheOther were talking about in their previous posts; it’s a different woman, who appears only briefly in that video. It’s not clear if they have the other woman’s info, but if not they are certainly still looking for it.
You know what? Old people should leave young people the hell alone. (and I say this as one of the old people)
Well, now I finally feel like getting a tattoo. One that spells out “piss on Paul Elam” on my face.
I was at that protest and stand in solidarity with this woman and all other organizers in Toronto who are fighting back against MRAs trying to make their home at U of T.
“Stop her” from what, exactly? What does this fearless crusader imagine that this college student is going to do, exactly? Say more meanie-pants things to incest apologists?
For sure, I’m in for supporting these young people.
Too bad y’all can’t read Ms. Claire’s hate campaign – yet. She’s changing her twitter account name almost hourly, and deleting everything she can. To no avail of course. Soon enough it will all be neatly archived and available on the web. Her words will follow her for the rest of her life.
PaulE, for all his bluster, is one of the most gullible assholes on the planet. If he falls for Satan and tattoo jokes, he’ll fall for anything.
Suz, so you do think that rape threats and general harassment are the appropriate response to someone saying something you don’t like? C’mon, Suz, have the courage of your shitty little convictions. You did equate divorce to rape, so this shouldn’t be too hard for you.
David, I’d be happy to support her any way I can against these fucking cowards (driversuz included in that category).
And now tweeting what are clear jokes to her friends is a hate campaign? Gah, the MRA stupid, it burrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrns.
As a fellow Canadian, I’d be more than happy to reach out to provide what aid I can to her and others who were at the demonstration. The MRA has been twisting the whole event into a publicity stunt to paint the attendees and by extension all feminists as “radicals” and shut us up. I refuse to stand for that manner of underhanded attack, especially when MRAs on reddit hypocritically decry SRS for it.
Suz, I can’t believe you’re ANY kind of a mother. You are a complete tool.
I’d rather be raised by wolves than Suz.
Yes I want to reach out to her and to them.
Of course MRA suz is for harassing and raping. It is the MRA way.
Driversuz: You’ve been sending her rape threats too? Who’s gonna do the raping, you precious son?
I’d also be more than happy to reach out and support her/them.
Of course driversuz is in favor of rape threats and harassment. You kind of have to be in favor of that to hang out at AVfM; it’s part of the price of admission. You know, that’s what makes them a civil rights movement, ‘cos didn’t Gandhi and MLK, Jr. encourage their followers to threaten to rape their opposition?
/sarcasm
driversuz being a member of what is p much the most misogynistic (and — in my opinion — misandristic) “rights movement” ever to exist does a twitter snark about “kill all men hail satan” really offend you so much that you think someone should be followed for the rest of their lives by people who threaten rape and violence because of it
My bad, cloudiah, I totes missed the rape and harassment section in the “I Have a Dream” speech.
There’s already another article up about another U of T student. The article is basically a catalogue of Elam’s intimidation campaign.
Failsuz, it’s always nice to know what you cretinous hatemongering extremist bigots consider a hate campaign.
I really don’t understand how Elam et al expect us to take seriously the idea that they feel their personal safety is threatened by feminists &co.
Like, I understand men can have violence directed at them by women, but MRAs never seem the sort to admit that they actually worry about a feminist hurting them.
Mind, given their belief that men are disempowered and disenfranchised, I shouldn’t expect any sort of reality to make it through to them.
Driversuz, is raping someone an acceptable way to respond to them calling you names?
Maybe we should all change our names to Emma Claire on Twitter. Or whatever other student they just doxxed.
Anyway, let’s just compare movements for a moment:
The American civil rights movement started (by most accounts) after WWI, although there were precursors so you could date the beginnings even earlier. Activists were beaten, lynched, assassinated, threatened with snarling dogs, sprayed with firehoses, spit on, menaced by burning crosses in front of their homes; their churches, houses and offices were bombed and burned down. In all those decades, I bet you could count the number of times an activist lost it and threatened their opposition on the fingers of one hand — and have fingers left over.
AVfM has been in existence since, what, 2009? Anyone care to catalog the number of threats, attempts to intimidate & harass, etc? Interesting that they operate much more like the opposition to the civil rights movement…
They worry about women using proxy violence against them. Because of course it’s never their own actions that bring them police attention. They are always blameless because boys will be boys.
Prediction: failsuz is going to whine at us for attributing rape threats to MRAs when the “real” MRAs have disowned those threats. Then I will link to the JohntheOtter article she praised wherein the Otter equates all of feminism with a few people at RadFemHub and I’ll ask about her double standard and she will ignore it.