NOTE: As of April 4, 2014, the original site and its individual profiles have been taken down; a new site with an apparently similar purpose is evidently being built to replace it, but it’s not yet functional. You can see an archived version of the site’s main page, and its list of “bigots” using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, though you’ll need to manually edit the URLs of the “bigots” listed to see the archived profiles. (Replace each %20 in the URLs with an _ .)
Some of the women profiled on the site as “bigots” included:
Actress Katherine Heigl, who was put on the site after making a humorous public service announcement for the site Funny or Die promoting the spaying and neutering of pets. Register-Her charges her with “endors[ing] male targeted sexual mutilation.”
Feminist blogger Jessica Valenti, the author, most recently, of “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth About Parenting and Happiness,” who was put on the site for several newspaper columns that the site misrepresents in an attempt to show that she is guilty of “an ongoing pattern of anti-male bigotry and advocacy for the eradication of constitutional rights based primarily on sex.” A Voice for Men has also labeled Valenti a “child abuser” for supporting feminist causes, and on one occasion posted candid photos it claimed were of her in an attempt to cause her embarrassment. If you look at the archived version of the site’s main page, you will see a picture of Valenti alongside photos of convicted rapists and murderers, all underneath the headline “Why Aren’t These Women In Prison?” Valenti has not, of course, committed any crimes.
A number of young women who attended a protest against Men’s Rights icon Warren Farrell at the University of Toronto. Register-Her used Twitter Tweets from some of the women, clearly intended as jokes, as evidence of genocidal intentions towards men. In an article on A Voice for Men, an anonymous writer even attacked one of these women for Tweeting a picture of a poster which declared “it is important to have someone’s consent before sexual activity.”
Site founder Paul Elam and other writers on A Voice for Men make no bones about their desire to ruin the lives of their foes. Indeed, the site’s much-referenced slogan is “Fuck Their Shit Up.”
In one post, Elam warned one critic of Register-Her that:
I find you, as a feminist, to be a loathsome, vile piece of human garbage. I find you so pernicious and repugnant that the idea of fucking your shit up gives me an erection. …
[Y]ou fucking moron. Your only real hope is to keep your mouth shut and pretend AVfM and register-her.com does not exist for as long as you can. Because, as you can see right now, anything you say or do will be thrown back in your face like holy water on a vampire.
We are coming for you, and we are coming for all the liars out there that have been ruining people’s lives with impunity. …
You are SO fucked.
Register-Her was clearly a major part of Elam’s program to “Fuck Their Shit Up.” The “registry” was heavily promoted on A Voice for Men, which linked to a number of “featured offenders” in its sidebar – all of them so-called “bigots,” none of them the criminals that Register-Her claims to really be about. A banner ad for Register-Her depicts a bloody knife. The tagline: “TRUTH is the real bitch.”
Elam’s idea of exposing the “truth” seems to involve publishing photographs and the personal information of his targets, whether these are alleged “false accusers” or simply feminists who have offended him. On the A Voice for Men internet radio show, Elam promised that:
If Mary Jane Rottencrotch out there wants to say that her husband beat her just for the sake of gaining leverage in a divorce he will now have a resource where he can come and post your name, your picture, your work telephone number, your address, perhaps even your route you take to get to work, if you bother to have a job.
While Elam has yet to make good on the threat of posting information on women’s routes to work, posts on A Voice for Men promoting the profiles of so-called “bigots” are filled with threatening language and vague intimations that further information will be revealed. In a post announcing the site’s campaign against the University of Toronto protestors, Elam wrote this about one of his targets:
We have her image and know her general location. We will identify her and profile her activity and name for public view.
We will not stop there, or just with her. And while we will not publish our complete intent, we are dogged in our efforts. …
We have no more sympathy for your agenda of hatred and exclusion than for a plantation owner’s rationale in the Antebellum South for justified ownership of another human being.
A Voice for Men’s posts about the targeted women are also filled with bizarre and hyperbolic accusations. In a post about a college student who had jokingly Tweeted that her “political position” was “kill all men hail satan,” and who in another tweet suggested she might get a tattoo reading “misandry,” one of A Voice for Men’s many pseudonynmous “agents” wrote:
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.
“Agent Mauve” makes clear that he hopes to ruin the life of the young woman by putting her on Register-Her:
[T]his will be the beginning of [name removed]’s real legacy; where she can revel in the full and permanent notice of her deeds, and the lesson she is providing to the world about the nature of feminism, and the etiology of hatred. And so that anyone who ever does an internet search on her name again will be aware of it.
So far, A Voice for Men’s campaign against the Toronto protesters seems to be having what one can only assume is the desired effect. On A Voice for Men’s Facebook page, a commenter refers to one of the protesters as an “evil twisted little piece of dogshit,” adding: “I hope she suffers a fatal injury before she can go out and ruin peoples’ lives like she seems determined to do.” This comment earned several “likes” from A Voice for Men’s readers.
In the Spring of 2012, Register-Her was profiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization that tracks hate groups, as part of a larger feature on the so-called “Men’s Rights” movement. Writing in the SPLC’s Intelligence Report, Arthur Goldwag described Register-Her’s modus operandus and its effect on one targeted woman:
Elam’s site can be frightening to its targets. In one case, he offered a cash reward to the first reader to ferret out a pseudonymous feminist blogger’s real name. In another, Elam singled out a part-time blogger at ChicagoNow who describes herself as a “vegetarian park activist with two baby girls.” The woman’s mistake was to write about her discomfort with male adults helping female toddlers in the bathroom at her daughter’s preschool. The blogger conceded that she was being sexist, but wrote that “I’d rather be wrong than find out if I’m right.”
After the woman was listed, she was widely attacked on men’s movement sites. “I don’t always use the word ‘cunt’ to describe a woman,” one poster raged, “but when I do it’s because of reasons like these.” Shocked, the “Mommy blogger” took down her original post and apologized for her “demonization of men.”
It wasn’t enough. “You targeted fathers, and just fathers,” Elam rebuked her. “It strikes me that you have never really been held to account for any of your actions in life. It is quite likely that the concept of complete, selfless accountability is just completely foreign to you.” Over at the Reddit Mens Rights forum, another poster fumed: “This entire episode should be a warning to all those male hating feminists out there who believe that they are safe screaming their hate messages on the web. Finally, they are held accountable for their hate messages and finally the rest of the world will find out exactly what type of depraved people they really are.”
That’s hate, and that’s precisely the sort of reaction Register-Her seems designed to provoke.
—
I encourage readers to link to this piece on their websites, so as to make sure that people understand what Register-Her was really all about.
“Well the conversation certainly took a depressing turn there.”
My apologizes for that. In addition to the serval, I offer a rare SCP that’s entirely D’AWWW — a tank of clown loaches. (Reminds me, my largest one swam into the smallest tube, I should see if ze’s stuck…silly loaches!)
Clown loach report — limited tube, three clown loaches swam out, it was like a regular old clown loach convention in there! And now the three of them are doing laps at the surface…hey guys? That little one is a clown loach, not a cory, despite what the cories seem to think…
I have weird fish…. (and just to prove the point, the largest cory is following those three loaches)
http://youtu.be/l3gIF1jzvRk
The little orange and black striped goofballs (and yes, they really do move as fast as it looks, catching them is quite a task!)
limited tube? lifted the tube
And hey, they’ve finally decided to let the little guy play.
Last I remember Mr. AL he’d changed his tune. Was that a put-on, too?
Also, dude, you were trying way too hard to convince us that you’re “female.” Pro-tip….we generally don’t refer to ourselves as “females,” you MRA assholes do that.
I nominate our cat Lilly for Register Purr. She is a giant butthead who wakes us up every morning by meowing loudly in our faces. When that doesn’t work, she jumps on us–since she’s 20lbs., it’s like getting hit with a furry brick.
When I first met Boy I used to have a big fat cat called Sancho who HATED him. He used to meow like he was hurt every time Boy tried to go near me, so I’d run off and pick him (Sancho) up. Boy’s allergic to cats, so Sancho used to sleep in his hat on purpose. He also once ran outside and ate as much grass as he could, then ran back in specifically to vomit on Boy’s head. We moved him away just in time, so he ran back out and did it again. Twice.
We think he was trying to get me to throw Boy in the bin. Definitely misandry.
But he also used to go to sleep if I held him like a baby and sang riot grrrl songs to him. I miss that damn cat.
I would like to nominate my kitty Spook for Register-Purr. When she wants something, and you’re walking by, sometimes she flings herself at the back of your knee and play-bites.
Also, she begs for attention, and will suffer about three full-body pets before showing displeasure with a sudden bite. She’ll let you scratch her ears until your fingers fall off.
And she’s more interesting than whatever crummy thing it is I’m reading in bed, she just knows it.
Our other cat, Velvet, scratches everywhere but in the pan after she’s done her business, and at approximately 9:07 p.m. when the humidity is dry and the temperature is middling, she can receive signals from Jupiter that command her to bang around the place like a mad thing, only pausing to groom for 5 seconds every now and again. Not exactly misandry.
@Kitteh’s — Re jester’s mountebank’s etc. — we sure can wear parti or motley if you want. I’m not sure about the cap and bells, they remind me too much of Harley Quinn, who’s a great character but her relationship with the Joker is Not Great and sometimes she is fuel for some rather specific fetishes.
*crosses fingers all the links work*
re recipes and copyright: You can’t copyright a dish, but the recipe can be copyrighted.
The written form is exact, and reproducible, so it can be copyrighted. If it weren’t there would be damned few cookbooks. Yes, I can make my own version of anything in Peterson’s, “Baking”, but if I lift it from Baking, directly, I’m gonna get sued.
My cat only tries to steal food from the boyfriend. *I* always give her the bowl/plate/yogurt container when I am done (with a bit of “It’s all yours now showmanship”) so I have a cat that waits patiently while I eat.
Boyfriend doesn’t really think that he should *have* to share with the cat (which he isn’t wrong about, but that thinking is counter-productive) and so he only sometimes, grudgingly gives her his bowl/plate/yogurt container. Thus, he has a cat that tries to get in whatever he is eating ASAP. I feel bad, but it isn’t my fault the cat doesn’t trust him and so I also find the whole thing hilarious.
There’s a thriving culture of people reproducing out-of-print editions of Dungeons & Dragons and selling them. I don’t mean photocopies, I mean, they type up and lay out new rules which are pretty much indistinguishable from various versions of Basic and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, except maybe the writers tweaked a rule or two they didn’t like.
It’s largely made possibly by the Open Gaming License Wizards put out in 2000, and the legal claim that you can’t copyright tables and formulae. I’m not up on the minutiae, but it seems to be working.
Courtney: Even if it’s a bad site, at least there’s a website for false accusers.
Define “false accuser”
Explain please how a site which is, “bad” is also “good”.
Are you arguing that, “someone needs to pay” for the rare instances of intentional accusations of a knowingly false nature, and therefore it doesn’t matter if the women accused are guilty or not?
In short, the only arguments which can me made to support your position are misogynist.
So you support misogyny.
*possible
Also, my brother was once eating a sammich with a cat on his shoulders. At one point, when he lifted the sandwich up to take a bite, the cat got there first.
I misremembered an intellectual property workshop I went to — you can’t copyright a list of ingredients, but you can in some cases copyright a recipe if it
I know you were all waiting with bated breath for this citation.
Register-Purr: Grumpy Cat at home
http://cheezburger.com/45603329
It’s only a minute long, but cute.
Why do I suspect that false false rape accusations are a hell of a lot more common than false rape accusations?
Luckily, MRAs (mostly) ignored this, so there are very few of them in the comments.
God. And it even fit all that standard back alley nonsense that fits with the most understood definition of rape. How many women are in jail for seeking justice right now I wonder?
Notice the bit about drugs in there: she smoked weed, so obviously she couldn’t have been raped.
cloudiah, a similar case happened in my hometown:
http://www.surroundedbyreality.com/Misc/Crimes/Patty.asp
A visually impaired woman was raped in 1997 in Madison WI. The police accused her of lying about it, charged her with obstruction, then OOPS found physical evidence in her favor. She received a $35,000 settlement from the city…..the whole ordeal took 9 years though. I can’t imagine what she went through in that near decade.
The simple solution?
Extend rape-shield laws to both parties so a wrongly accused person wont be smeared in the media, but if proven later, a guilty person would be the center of media attention.
I know we’re supposed to have public trials, but I don’t think issuing a gag order on the request of one party as evidence is collected is a Constitutional problem.
Shut up, Diogenes.
Brilliant rebuttal
Cotlette is a perfect cat in every way except he is a skeerdy cat so things go flying sometimes when he goes flying because he is skeerd of everything except me, and sometimes me. So he does not need to be registered, but oh la wee the other two need wanted posters. Chick-a-pea steals anything not nailed down or too heavy to lift. Pens pencils gloves socks, she chirps as she carts them off to never see it again land. Pikachu punches me every morning that I sleep past eight. They are polydactyl so he has enormous fists.
There was a debate about doing just that a couple of years ago in the UK. It was decided it would interfere with the ability to gain witnesses or for other victims to come forward too much for it to be beneficial.
@Falconer – “Also, my brother was once eating a sammich with a cat on his shoulders. At one point, when he lifted the sandwich up to take a bite, the cat got there first.”
ROFL if only there was a video of that!
It’s a good thing Mr KItteh isn’t into sammiches. Because if he was, Katie would totally do that.