I was a little saddened to read recently that A Voice for Men — the self-proclaimed “Men’s Human Rights” site that has posted an open call to firebomb government buildings in its “activism” section — will no longer be writing about little old me.
Yes, it’s true. In a recent post announcing that he would no longer be writing or caring about journalist Arthur Goldwag, who famously took on the misogyny of the Men’s Rights movement in a piece for the Southern Poverty Law Center, AVFM’s head douchebag Paul Elam also noted that he would no longer be writing or caring about me either.
“In the early days of this site, we used to write a fair amount about David Futrelle,” Elam wrote. “He was a nice, soft target; pudgy actually.”
But now, apparently, AVFM has gotten much too important to bother with soft, pudgy nobodies like me or Goldwag or the SPLC.
We don’t mention David anymore except as a passing joke. He is just another low-end blogger with a small audience of neurotic women who talk more about cats in his comments than what he writes. It is as close to physical intimacy as the guy will ever get.
It’s a little strange how much time Elam, a fiftysomething straight man, spends thinking about my sex life, but I suppose it will be a bit of a relief not to have to read so many of these fantasies of his in the pages of AVFM. Not to mention Elam’s bizarre conspiracy theories about me — like this one. (I wonder why Elam never came forward with the proof of those allegations like he promised he would? Hmm.)
So I was a little surprised when, only one day after Elam bid me that not-very-fond farewell, AVFM’s “managing editor” Dean Esmay decided to set forth yet another conspiracy theory about me and my alleged army of evil minions.
In the midst of a long, weird, barely coherent tirade directed at a writer for Vice magazine who’d approached AVFM with some questions for its stable of female MRAs, Esmay accused my evil minions (in advance) of writing to the Viceman pretending to be female MRAs in an attempt to make female MRAs look bad:
[M]aybe … one of David Futrelle’s minions will show up in your inbox and say “yeah I’m a female MRA and I support taking rights away from women and I hate women too because we women suck, put women who have abortions in prison praise jesus blargh!” and so on and so forth, because that’s just what a whole lot of people who oppose compassion and fundamental human rights for boys and men do: pretend to be MRAs or to be quoting MRAs just to make us look bad. We’ve seen it in action more than once. At least one asshole we know of pretty much does it as a full-time gig.
Dude, I hate to break it to you, but none of my “minions” needs to pretend to be a female MRA in order to make female MRAs look bad. Female MRAs like JudgyBitch and GirlWritesWhat and TyphonBlue are already doing an exemplary job of that already. I mean, seriously, did you read JudgyBitch’s thing about pedophilia the other day? I mean, wow.
Of course male MRAs are also doing a fantastic job making themselves look terrible as well, from Warren Farrell on down to that dude who thinks “friend zoning” should be punishable by law (and the dozens of Men’s Rights Redditors who upvoted him).
But, really, no single website has done more to make the Men’s Rights movement look terrible than A Voice for Men.
Seriously, fellas (and FeMRAs), take a bow. We here at Man Boobz couldn’t do it without you. I couldn’t make up the shit you spew if I tried. (And, for the record, I don’t try.)
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That’s the sexiest picture of Paul Elam I have ever seen.
Oh I got carried away with all that hawt, I didn’t notice the caption. The hair fooled me!
First thought while reading this article: omg that kitty is so fucking adorable
Last thought while reading this article: omg that kitty is so fucking adorable
Sorry David; it’s just because kitties with wigs.
Also,
BREAKING NEWS: Elam is a joke.
They are trying really hard to not give you any attention, but they just can’t help it. 😉
Does he really think that he’s so important that one of us will pretend to be a FeMRA? I would choke on my own vomit if I tried. I’d have a stroke. There would not be enough soap to remove the stench. Dude, you ain’t that important.
Dude, does this mean we can’t be minions anymore? I got a tshirt and everything.
God, Paul looks so hot in that photo.
And don’t the allegedly discourage the shaming men for a lack of sex life?
(Not that I’m assuming David lacks a sex life. I know nothing of Mr. Futrelle’s sex life and wouldn’t presume to and then taunt him for it.)
A t shirt! Want! Does it come in pink? Oh, yeah, the rant…well, I tried to read it. He does seem to include about everything that they’ve ever been called in the first part. It’s too bad that the Vice writer can’t film the q & a sessions.
It’s okay, gillyrosebee, you’re still a cat. We’re all cats, except David, who is a whole bunch of cats in a man-suit.
“No, actually, YOU’RE the fat loser who lives in his mom’s basement. Heh [snort]. Checkmate.” — The entire MRA counter-argument
My question still stands. Why in the world did MRA’s start calling themselves the Human Rights movement. Their goals are anything but human, let alone humane, They are a dangerous bunch, they must be avoided at all cost.
David Futrelle
I think this is a good sign, you set out to expose these people and make them look like the bigoted idiots that they are. You wouldn’t be doing your job, if they liked you. It should be a badge of honor that the folks over at a Viole for Men can’t stop themselves from attacking you.
What? You mean the Top Secret Infiltration Op is off?
I had my feMRA rant all ready!
::grumbles::
Kind of off the subject, but Jezebel just wrote about Government Gets Girlfriends. And, he was in the comments as of a couple of hours ago. http://jezebel.com/incel-misogynist-wants-government-to-pay-women-to-dat-508518581
when was he in the comments? he posted here or someone posted about him?
i’m so glad they post a comment from some dude saying how he’s not conventionally attractive at all and does can find women to have sex with him and does not think he is owed sex. phew.
I wish he’d come over here. I’d enjoy watching the regulars here chew him up and spit him out.
Of course, I’m convinced it’s all a deep-cover, “I’m not here” level performance piece. Because no one could possibly be as daft as that.
GGG did comment here for a while, but he got banned because he was so fucking creepy.
thecategoricalhousewife
It makes sense for them to call themselves a human rights movement because only men are human in their view. The rest of us are various and assorted aliens for which they have numerous derogatory names.
Oh and Paulyboy comments on Pandagon on occasion, usually obsessing over Amanda Marcotte’s articles. His crap’s usually been deleted by the time I see it. Still fun to see the commenters there ripping shreds off him and reminding everyone of what sort of stuff he endorses, though.
PaulE won’t write about Manboobz, anymore, but he’ll lurk like a mofo. Hi, Paul, you big skidmark.
Damn, I had my screed all ready to send to Vice, too.
gillyrosebee: if you’re talking about GGG, he’s banned from here.
@marinerachel – Yeah I thought the same thing. Isn’t the “I bet you’re not even having sex” argument was supposed to be a ‘feminist shaming tactic.’ I forgot which colour code it was. I guess Elam is original by adding the fearless “…and if you do, it’s probably gay sex with another mangina, gag me with a spoon” argument.
Damn, they really need some editorial control over there. We’re not going to write about Futrelle any more…except this piece right here! Our female writers are not like that negative stereotype people have at all…btw did you notice one of them just wrote an apologia for celebrities who abuse children?
It’s weird, Elam seems like such a megalomaniac, but I don’t get the sense that there’s anyone actually running the show over there. If he is running the show and he thinks this is good PR…wow.
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. He was in the comments on the Jezebel article.
Elam wouldn’t know how to PR if his life depended on it. If he did, he’d clean house over there in a big way.
GGG finally got the attention he craves. Maybe now he’ll implode and fuck off forever.