CORRECTION: New evidence suggests that the screenshot discussed in this post and elsewhere was not a forgery but the result of a glitch. I offer a correction, and an apology, and a discussion of the implications, here.
So the mighty Paul Elam has acknowledged — in the comments section of Girl Writes What’s blog, at least –that there might just be some sort of problem going on with regard to, you know, that whole fake screenshot thing. You know, the blatant fraud that A Voice for Men mangling — sorry, managing — editor Dean Esmay seems to have engaged in to cover up a mistake.
But, Paul being Paul, he somehow manages to turn his sort-of acknowledgement of the problem into an attack on me, bizarrely blaming me (the person who actually pointed out this fraud) for him not knowing about it before today:
As much as I hate to say it, Futrelle does have a valid point. I am looking in to it today, and unlike Futrelle, I will address the results of my inquiry in public no matter where they end up.
I don’t mind looking into problems, even when they are pointed out by such a bald faced liar. I would have actually been aware of this sooner if his blog were worth reading. I had to become aware of it in your comments to even know there was a problem.
Well, Paul, I would have happily brought my findings to the comments section of A Voice for Men, rather than the comments section of Girl Writes What’s blog, but you may recall I am banned there. And I wonder if anyone there would have had the courage to stand up and say that, gosh, this Futrelle guy has a point, given how quickly people are censored there for deviating from your site’s perverse “conventional wisdom.”
And gosh, Paul, how unfair it is to expect the publisher of a site to be aware of what’s, you know, published on it. Concerns about the story were brought up by your own commenters shortly after it first ran. Esmay referred in an article and an editorial note to my alleged “lies” about the story; it didn’t occur to you to even go look at what I had said? And even aside from the phony screenshot, or anything I’ve written, did you really think that Esmay’s bizarre explanations for the original mistake made any kind of sense?
In other words, are you incompetent, or are you lying about being unaware of the problem until now?
In any case, I await the results of your “investigation.” I am especially eager to see how you will manage to spin things so it becomes someone else’s fault. Will it be some evil conspiracy that “set you up?”
And when exactly have I lied, Paul? Could you offer a citation? When I point out the lies on your site, I fucking back up each claim.
[EDIT: Added some stuff in the “gosh, Paul” paragraph and made a few other changes.]
@ opium – That’s some hot pussy!
(D: Please just kill me now.)
I was talking to her on chat and she was like “I like you as a kitten friend.” Fuck that! I ain’t being friend-zoned by a cat. So I left, saying only “meow meow” as I walked away.
@j
There definitely needs to be an Atheistboobz blog! I’d read it daily. I’m an atheist myself but I’m up to my back teeth with all the stupid shit smug, atheist shitstains say.
Women are irrational and can’t do skepticism – it’s science!
Evo-psych is a valid field because of pink berries n’ biotruths!
Weeeelll, not to be racist but…
How dare you say the atheist community is sexist, you c**t!
So, yeah. 😀
theladyzombie, such a blog would become an automatic target for the Slymepit, which is a really attractive option for those of us who’ve already been libelled by that mob of toxic waste.
SittieKitty – he got even dumber and suggested “supers” for “supernatural”! I swear, the Supers vs the Brights just needs superhero costumes, it’s so comic-book.
Opium, love the Adult Cat Finder.
Aaliyah, you want to watch out for those catnip-diggers, they’ll treat you wrong every time. And they aren’t funny!
Xanthe – sometimes I wonder why the Slymepitters don’t just join the MRM and be done with it (assuming they aren’t already in it). The frothing rage they have against women is straight out of AVfM et al.
Xanthë, yeah you’re right. 🙁 You can’t even say, “Wow! The sky is so blue today!” without Pitters screaming about how feminazis are trying to take over the sky because blue = boys and obviously mentioning how blue the sky looks is code for WE MUST DESTROY ALL MENZ!
Yeah, they always ignore nice kittens like me. :{ One time I gave a kitty some catnip, and instead of loving me and wanting to be with me forever, she ripped open the entire bag. It’s like it’s impossible to find a decent kitty these days.
Kittehserf – A lot of MRAs are Slymepitters, and if they’re not, they praise the Pit highly in their blogs.
Lmao, coming from a skeptic that just sounds hilarious!
Catnip diggers are so catty. Look at this catfight!
You just know that next they’re going to be taking the scratching post and the cushy bed and making you pay monthly for all the mouse toys that used to be yours and forbidding you from even seeing them.
AND they’ll be going after some alpha with a Chesterfield couch and caviar kitty treats, too.
And you can bet that rhinestone studded collar is paid for in catnip from you working your tail off! Those cats… *shakes head*
I know.
Humans are just totally oppressed.
FELINAZIS STOLE MY CATNIP!!!
Jake Jones: Well, thank you. That’s an interesting article. But my point is that I often see people who seem to have read no Hitchens except the women aren’t funny article and have mentally placed him in the Raging Misogynist category (right next to the only other one, Perfect Feminist). That’s shitty, sloppy, bullshit thinking and I’m seeing more and more of it in these kinds of internet communities.
And you know they’ve not read anything else by him/about his misogyny because… ?
That’s some super-power you got there. Perhaps you could work for the NSA.
Not caught up but regarding Newton as an Appeal to Authority, it’s only a fallacy if the authority isn’t one. If they are it’s a valid argument (not the be all end all of it, but an actual point)
Since I suspect this will have come up already, an example — pecunium lectures on torture, ergo he’s an authority on such matters and should be given more weight than Mr. “Now that I’ve been water boarded it’s torture”. Now, an authority on that doesn’t make him an authority on, say, math (hi pecunium, hope you don’t mind being my example!)
And now I shall go to bed.
I just made some really loud strange laughing noises at work, thankyouverymuch.
So sick of gold-digging alpha felines riding my lap carousel
We hunted the
mammothchicken tidbits for you“Lap carousel” ROFL!
I guess that’s what it is when there are two laps available and Fribs goes from one to the other and back again.
We slave away bringing heavy bags of kitty litter back from the supermarket!
97% of female felinazis are whores and must renounce all forms of yowling for tomcats
Clearly I was behind!
And I lugged 20+ lbs of sand on a bus for you! (No, really, my tank in Pittsburgh had a 4″ deep sand bed and I brought all the sand home by bus, 2 cubic feet of sand is not light!)
I regularly carry 7 frikken gallons of water up the stairs for you! (Again, not light, going on 50 lb of not light)
Yeah did I mention that you’ll get your exercise keeping fish? No dog walking, but plenty of carting around water and gravel/sand.
It’s not just cats who help you exercise with weights!