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 You can see an archived version of the site’s main page, and its list of “bigots” using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, though you’ll need to manually edit the URLs of the “bigots”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.
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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.
Polydactyls are the Wreck-It Ralphs of the cat world.
Do fymynists worship Lolth?
Maddie had an attack of TEH CUTENESS this morning, chasing her ball around in its track and leaping about. Curious how these attacks always overcome her when I’m a) about to leave for work or b) trying to watch television.
@thenat
Thats a good counterargument. The reason I’m convinced Rothelsburger is a rapist despite not being convicted is because he’s been accused of it on two occasions. My brother suggested he just paid people off.
But rape allegations are unusually tarnishing, and we don’t want someone to be found guilty in the court of public opinion if they’re innocent.
So, what do?
Painful crowd of he-man woman-haters here: http://www.mens-rights.net/forum/
TW for pretty much everything. Only strong stomachs should apply.
Here’s some cute kittens to try and wash out the stench from my brain.
People are never tarnished to the degree the MRM claim they will be. Look at all the celebrities who have been accused – or even convicted of – rape. The stories told by the MRM always boil down to ‘a man was mildly inconvenienced – BUT WHAT IF IT WAS WORSE?!’. I honestly would like to say it’s different but a man who’s accused on suspicion of sexual assault isn’t actually going to be treated worse than a man who’s accused on suspicion of embezzlement or serious assault. But no one is suggesting reducing the rights of victims of theft or battery, are they?
Just curious what makes you say that rape allegations are unusually tarnishing — like, more so than accusations of child abuse, murder, embezzlement, and so on?
I feel like, the way our society is, people are more ready to forgive rapists than anyone else, really. Read the NYT’s coverage of the girl in Ohio who was drunk and photographed by her rapists while no one did shit to help her. The rapists’ coach is testifying that they’re great, totally stand-up guys, and that the girl’s sexual history means that she couldn’t have been raped.
Society also forgives people who have committed domestic violence.
But rape allegations are unusually tarnishing, and we don’t want someone to be found guilty in the court of public opinion if they’re innocent.
Bullshit. Did Big Ben lose his job? Kobe on the dole? Can you even name a Duke lacrosse player off the top of your head?
Get the fuck out with your nonsense.
What thenatfantastic said.People bend over backwards to excuse rapists, to say there was a “misunderstanding” or “how could he know she didn’t consent” or “she was drunk/wearing a dress/led him on/shouldn’t have been out at night/shouldn’t have caught a train/taxi/shouldn’t have walked/deserved it for being female”. So whining about poor men being smeared is bullshit. They’re not. The vast majority of rape cases are never reported; too few of those that are go to trial, and the trial is just as much about attacking the victim (whatever their gender) as about establishing the guilt or innocence of the accused. You’re being a rape apologist here, Diogenes, whether you acknowledge it or not. Hell, a cab driver who was arrested for two rapes and tried to flee the country before he was caught has been let out on bail despite being an obvious danger to women. Unusually tarnished? Fuck that and fuck you.
Oh, blockquotes. The first part of that is Diogenes’ simpleminded rape apologia.
Don’t worry hellkell, it was clear.
Diogenes: Still the Naïf I see.
One of the reasons for public trials is to let witnesses come forward; for both the prosecution, and the defense.
Your solution in search of a problem makes that harder, which is more of a burden to the defense.
But go ahead, show me up; prove there is a real problem with false accustions. Not mistaken but willfully false; i.e. malicious, allegations.
If you can show me that they rise to twice the statistical average for other crimes, I’ll entertain the idea it’s in need of a systematic correction.
Of course so is shit like this and it’s a fuckton more common than even mistaken ID in rape cases.
By the way, if you can’t show that overepresentation of false rape… shut the fuck up, and this is why: But rape allegations are unusually tarnishing, and we don’t want someone to be found guilty in the court of public opinion if they’re innocent.
Name the Duke Boys. Name the guys from the Orange County who had the date rape club? I’ll bet you don’t know what I’m talking about, but Kobe Bryant lost his job when he was accused, right? Shit,he didn’t. But his wife left him, right? No. Fuck!
How about Mike Tyson… he was CONVICTED, so his celebrity was over! Oh, crap, it wasn’t.
Grow up. Take a look at how the world actually works; it will make you look less stupid.
Crap, a link got lost. shit like this
shit like this
My response to Diogenes.
I begin to wonder if calling Diogenes naive is being too kind. Sure, he’s a know-nothing, safe in his little privileged-boy bubble, but this is toxic stuff and he refuses to learn. He just keeps trolling shit and lies about any topic you care to name. Oh, and trots out “misandry” like it’s a thing.
Didn’t we do the whole false rape accusations thing once already on this thread? I can’t find my previous comment on the matter, it’s lost among pages of Mr. Al.
In short, the vast majority of false accusations are not cases where no rape occurred, but cases of misidentification. Which is not really an issue in the sort of date rape cases that get the MRM up in arms.
Argenti: This thread? I don’t know. If we didn’t it’s not a surprise if it feels we did; it’s come ’round on the guitar more than a few times.
May I derail? I desperately need a recipe.
@Talacaris: Lolth? Yes, I worship Lolth. You got me! I’m native to the Underdark. Hail Lolth! Misandry 2013!
One may always ask about recipes.
I’ll be away for a bit, I need to get supper, or My Beloved will be upset, and my former housemate will give me stern looks.
What kind f recipe do you need, Katz?
Catbeast is SO getting registered for that.
Derail? I think pecunium just did (thanks for getting Alice’s Restaurant stuck in my head!)
And I’d thought it was this thread, but since I can’t find it, maybe not. Had to be recent though back I went off on a troll and I haven’t been back that long.