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.
I am interested in reaching the HELL out. You know how to contact me.
Gross…this guy looks just like my uncle. *vomits* (excuse me, folks)
I’m also interested in reaching out and giving support. 🙂
damselindetech, do you know how to get in touch with her and/or anyone who could put me in touch with her? If so, or if anyone else reading this knows, please email me at my futrelle [[[at]]] well [[[[dot]]]] com address. Or pass my email along to them.
Once I get more info I will email everyone here who’s interested in reaching out so we can organize something, or at the very least get some messages of support to her.
suz, fuck off forever. You are horrible and unfunny.
I would just like to add my voice to the support for this woman.
It makes sense that MRA’s would take offense to obvious jokes, being that they are themselves such.
I like the idea of all of us changing our twitter names to whoever they are doxing at the moment. i’d even get a twitter just for that.
We are all sparticus.
Tulgey Logger:
This is what this whole doxxing campaign sounds like to me:
“Men, grab your torches and your pitchforks! Let’s go over to that bitch’s house and wipe the floor with her! Non-violently, of course. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge.”
Hmmm, so Spittlegirl’s “Kill all men hail Satan” is jokey, but Paul Elam’s “the idea of fucking your shit up gives me an erection” is not jokey?
I’m in for reaching out. I have relatives in Toronto, some of whom might also be up for helping.
I’m going to throw in my support and good wishes for her too. No one should be the target of this sort of thing for peacefully protesting and making a couple lame jokes on twitter. For FSM’s sake she’s barely an adult, being the target of this sort of hate and threats has to be jarring for her. It’s jarring for me on the rare occasions I’ve been targeted and I’m 30 and it’s usually one or two douches not a flood of them.
Oh gateman: Show me the track record of support on her part for actually, “fucking their shit up”.
Show me the people trying to find Elam’s address, as they preach about how “he needs to be stopped”: Show me where she was praising the idea of bashing his head against a wall until it was gushing blood, and then making him clean it up to show him how powerless he is.
Show me that, then I might be willing to equate the two.
Gateman, since the rest of Elam’s post in which he says that is filled with thuggish threating language, which he is completely serious about, the “erection” line is only “jokey” in that it might not be literally true.
Everyone, since I didn’t make this clear in the OP, I just added this to it:
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.
Also, the idea that has been floated here, about creating multiple twitter accounts with the same name, gave me the suspicion that the account in which this girl supposedly says “kill all men” was fake, created by Elam or his acolytes in order to rile up their supporters. Because the phrase sounds hopelessly made up.
@gateman Considering Elam has said he was serious about it and it’s part of a pattern of such statement: yes. There’s also the big difference between being a college kid (not a group known for maturity) and a man in his 50s. I tend to hold folks who’ve been an adult for 30+ years to a higher standard than someone barely old enough to vote, that whole wisdom from experience thing.
Not at all, gateman! It ‘s not a double standard, It’s a DIFFERENT standard! According to feminism, females have no agency ya know.
suz. shut the fuck up.
So Elam puts Thomas Ball’s call to violence under the “Activism” heading as a joke, does he?
Suz, that doesn’t even make sense.
Suz, you’ve been into mulled wine again, haven’t you?
Is rape-is-totally-okay suz headed for the banhammer? I’d vote for it.
On the one hand, we have two web sites (AVfM and register-her.com) with the every day purpose of intentionally stoking anger and hatred against feminists AND women, even if they have to outright lie about them (e.g. JtOtter’s invisible mob with boxcutters). ANYONE WHO CRITICIZES THEM IS CLEARLY A VIOLENT STALINIST WHO IS VIOLATING THEIR CIVIL RIGHTS.
On the other hand, we have a woman who sent out a few obvious jokes on Twitter to her friends (seriously, didn’t the “hail satan” kinda tip you off?), interspersed with messages about musical performances and food. There is NO evidence that this woman has ever so much as accidentally stepped on a man’s toes in a crowded elevator. SHE OBVIOUSLY DESERVES TO RECEIVE RAPE THREATS AND PEOPLE STALKING HER ON CAMPUS.
These are actually things that driversuz and gateman believe. Color me un-surprised.
David – I don’t know her personally, but I might be able to pass along the message. I’m working on my contacts atm.
Suz, I said a different standard based on age and maturity not gender. I hold myself to a different standard than I do a 20 year old or a 12 year old, I’m certainly more mature now than I was 10 years ago. It has nothing to do with gender and it’s not feminists who think women lack agency. I hold women Elams age to the same standard.
Canuck here, in the GTA, seconding the call to “reach the HELL out”! anything I can do I’d be glad to!
Over on AVFM, our friend suz is gleefully posting about how the targeted woman is “on the run,” so I’m going to go ahead and ban her here.