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.
lolol at that chart. The top items being mangina and misandry brings metaphorical tears to my eyes and invisible laughs to my belly.
Google makes it look like only English speaking countries have Misandry.
To put things in perspective…
A little more perspective.
This enough perspective for you?
Google Trends is my new favorite time waster — thanks katz! (That was not meant sarcastically.)
When I saw “Mr Al” and “other eye” I straight away thought “browneye”.
/fourteen-year-old
Seems like there are a lot of MRAs from Australia and Canada. Hmmm…
I agree that they seemed to have achieved very little. However, in my (possibly paranoid) mind, their ideas seem to be gaining some traction. Ask most guys over the age of about 40 where I live whether men are discriminated against by society and they will laugh. Ask guys my age (24) or younger the same question and more than half of them will say yes, absolutely. Maybe this is a good thing, but most of them seem to be angry and resentful rather than moving towards productive change. They aren’t as bad as the people we discuss here, but I would consider them highly deficient when it comes to understanding what equality actually means. I should also mention that this stuff often comes out when everyone has had a bit too much to drink, and I am almost never the one to bring it up. The anger and resentment among young men is real. Of course there are a few angry, divorced men, but mostly it’s the young ones. There is a huge generational divide, I think.
There have also been a few protests in Britain that seem to have been fairly well attended (as in, more than 20 people showed up). The group MRA London (I think it’s called) has a fairly large membership. So, let’s not paint all MRAs as shut-ins or ‘losers’. There are real people in positions of influence who believe these things.
Ugh, I realise I sound a bit annoying. I know most of you guys know more about this than I do. I just have no one in real life who is interested in this stuff!
If Sauron’s Other Eye is Mr. Al, I gotta say I’m proud of the kid.
What’s in a username? That which we call asshole by any other name would still manage to reek.
I’m really curious about the feminism trend and its very regular cyclic pattern. It peaks in April and November and has a smaller minimum in August and a lower one in January. Anyone know what could cause that?
That being said, I’m glad to see Mr Al willing to go against people for someone he neither likes nor agrees with. That’s serious growth
Bee: me too, and I never would have guessed he’d be the voice of reason in a shitshow like that.
@ katz
Maybe people researching for school? April and November might be around exam times.
More fun with google trends:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22men%27s%20rights%22%2C%20manosphere%2C%20mgtow%2C%20%22my%20little%20pony%3A%20friendship%22&cmpt=q
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22men%27s%20rights%22&cmpt=q
and my favorite:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%22men%27s%20rights%22%2C%20%22horse%20porn%22&cmpt=q
Dang, I should buy stock in horse porn.
I can’t wait for AVfM to take inurashii’s comment out of context.
inurashii, your comment’s position on the top of the comment section makes me seriously consider not turning to older comments.
On the other hand, I MUST KNOW.
Carleyblue
Anger and resentment is one thing, but the idea that the ideas espoused by MRAs are gaining traction is hard to believe.
JohnTheOther himself acknowledged that MRAs are despised and that they number no more than 10,000.
The most popular/well publicized MRAeque organisation is Fathes 4 Justice. Despite their publicity, they still don’t get triple figures at their protests.
The AVfM/Spearhead brand of MRAs will never move from the lunatic fringe.
@ Carnation
I certainly hope you’re right.
Actually, I think it’s resistance to misogyny in general that is gaining traction. I keep coming across more mainstream writers just throwing down and saying ‘hey, all this creepy stuff you are writing about women is not cool.’ (sane people can throw down very gently)
That image of Paul Elam reminds me of a fox terrier. Thankfully a fox terrier can neither talk nor act like a pompous ass seeking violence on women. Sadly, neither seems to have an “off” button in the vocalization department (terriers are notorious for constant and persistant barking).
http://www.petside.com/sites/default/files/slideshows/wire-fox-terrier-happy.jpg
And these jerks wonder why many of us prefer the company of animals to MRA monkey-business.
Can we figure out what Paul Elam’s address is and sign him up for every newsletter and commercial publication ever? At the very least, it would be hilarious to see him have to go through a metric ton of junk mail.
@Dualityheart I like that plan! Better yet, let’s sign him up for a bunch of feminist stuff: Planned Parenthood mailings, women’s studies department newsletters, maybe even a subscription to Ms. or Bitch…
Actually I’d think that even the most tediously mainstream and non-feminist magazines’s – Cosmo, Women’s Health – would have him frothing at the mouth. Women’s Health would probably prompt a rant about how this just proves how pervasive feminism is and how nobody cares about men’s health because men don’t have their own magazine.
(Hint – they do!)