Well, this is depressing. The Raw Story is reporting that
An Ohio University sophomore has deactivated her social media accounts and is afraid to leave her house after she was falsely identified as the woman who reported she’d been raped in an incident captured on cell phone video by a passerby.
The student, Rachel Cassidy, now falsely accused of being a false rape accuser, has had her personal information — not just her name but her address, the name of her sorority, her social media accounts, even her Pinterest page — listed on a Men’s Rights site called Crimes Against Fathers. (I won’t link to it.)
The man behind Crimes Against Fathers? None other than the notorious Men’s Rights extremist and crackpot Peter Andrew Nolan — or, as he prefers to be known, for reasons I don’t fully understand, Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c) . Apparently taking inspiration from Paul Elam’s Register-Her.com, Nolan’s site does what Register-Her only threatened to do: it actually releases the personal information of those it identifies as “Man-Hating Women.” He will even add names of women you don’t like to the list for a fee of $70 (Australian).
So far the site has several hundred women listed, most of them apparently women who have run afoul of Nolan or his most active lieutenant on the site, the pseudonymous “John Rambo” of “Boycott American Women” fame, either online or in real life. In most cases, luckily, the amount of personal information given out is relatively scanty and the number of people who’ve actually viewed the posts (which is listed on the site) has been small.
That’s not the case with Cassidy, whose life Nolan and “Rambo” have set out to ruin as thoroughly as they can. In addition to her personal information, the site has also dug up an assortment of pictures of her scraped from various sites on the internet.
And, unwilling to believe that she is not the woman in the video — and a false accuser of rape — the two have taken aim at those who’ve stepped forward to defend Cassidy. They’ve posted the personal information of Jenny Hall-Jones, the Dean of Students at Ohio University, for the “crime” of publicly saying that Cassidy is not the woman in the video, as well as several other women who’ve come out in support of Cassidy.
On Crimes Against Fathers, “Rambo” writes
[C]onsidering that women will always try to cover for their fellow women, and will NEVER hold their fellow women accountable, there is a very strong possibility that Jenny [Hall-Jones] is LYING and that Rachel Cassidy IS the girl in that video. This means that Jenny Hall-Jones is a CRIMINAL because she is covering up for the CRIME of making a false rape accusation. Therefore, she is a criminal and needs to be publicly exposed as such.
Neither “Rambo” nor Nolan has leveled similar accusations against Ohio University president Roderick McDavis, a man, though he too has said that the woman in the video is not Cassidy.
Men’s Rights activists like to say that Nolan isn’t really one of them. If this is the case, they should be willing to stand up and denounce his reprehensible actions, and the very idea of his Crimes Against Fathers “Man-Hating Women” directory.
EDITED TO ADD: I should note that Nolan’s site also has a “Name and Shame the IgnorMANuses” forum directed at alleged man-hating men, including Vince Gilligan (creator of Breaking Bad) and Nacho Vidal (the pseudonymous dude behind MGTOWforums.com). The list is considerably smaller than that of the Man-Hating Women directory, and none of the entries I saw listed any personal information that went much beyond links to Facebook pages.
Pretty much what Cerberus said… It’s horrific and sad and happens pretty frequently…
Sorry @Falconer, just thought I’d ask.
Mike Booth’s Somegreybloke is on Patreon, and as he’s a lovely feminist he calls his Patrons ‘Matrons’, and his podcasts ‘Modcasts’. We thought it was a lovely touch.
Also people here should totally become matrons. (Hope David doesn’t mind the plug, I’m not a somegreybloke shill, honest!)
http://www.patreon.com/somegreybloke
Jeremiah McDonald (of Dan Cardamon fame) also has a patreon channel (if that’s what you call it.)
http://www.patreon.com/jeremiahmcdonald
Sorry that last one was OT everyone.
Hello everyone, long time lurker, first time commenter. So, I was checking the wikipedia page on those so-called “Sovereign citizens.” In a totally unsurprising development, they turn out to be huge racists. One of them apparently tried to get out of paying his taxes by arguing that he was “of the White Preamble Citizenship and not one of the 14th Amendment legislated enfranchised De Facto colored races” O_o.
Also, many thanks to David Futrelle for reading all this horrible stuff so we don’t have to.
@themathapprentice
Hi, and welcome :3
And I’ve got no idea what to make of the quoted racism 🙁 It’s just…both horrible and baffling.
Alice, I know right!? I’m trying to find his channel again but I’m having trouble. If I find it I will post it.
@Marie
Thank you!
And, yeah, that was also my reaction. I thought I had seen plenty of strange and delusional beliefs on how the world works in the MRA quotes on this blog, but those free-man-on-the-land…weird doesn’t begin to describe it.
I will be very interested to see if AVFM says anything about this. That isn’t supportive of Nolan and/or the scourge pandemic that is false rape accusations, I mean.
mathapprentice, I’m sure someone will be by with your welcome package shortly–always good to have another friendly voice around here.
I forget which Freethought Blog writer–it was either PZ Myers or Ed Brayton–came up with the rule of sympathetic crankdom. Basically, once you buy into a single crank theory, you end up more susceptible to others, and get progressively less able to see how silly it all is. Start as an anti-vaxxer, end up as an Abductee Advocate.
Wait, P-A:N is accepting worthless government-backed paper money as payment? He doesn’t demand $70 in 24-karat gold?
@freemage
Can’t wait for my own welcome package!
The rule of sympathetic crankdom certainly seems to apply. I think it was one of the commenters here that pointed out it also works for bigotry. The misogynists quoted here often are racists as well, etc. Which seems actually quite logical: their lack of empathy prevent them for understanding anyone with a different background.
baileyrenee – Lovely! I HATE midterms! 😛
Welcome package
@katz
Thank you! I am currently sitting on a misandrist hard chair for the complete manboobz experience.
Hey mathapprentice, would have said hi earlier but was busy catching up on the ‘The Daily Beast’ thread, there’s a troll over there who’s volunteered himself as a chew toy, why don’t you join us? Fun times. 😉
Very nice to meet you. 🙂
@mathapprentice make sure you light some scented fucking candles!
With all the rhetoric from the MRM that justifies violence towards women coming from these beta male trogs I can imagine that many of their gamma male troglodytes are putting some of that violence into practice against their girlfriends, mother and sisters. This movement is about hate and nothing more, so violence is a primary feature.
Mathapprentice should definitely come over to the Daily Beast thread, since the troll said that the only worthwhile majors were chemistry and math.
*waves hi to mathapprentice* Hiya! 🙂
Cerberus,
Yes, I hate how the media made it all about Islam. He was just a far-right radical who targeted PROGRESSIVES in his terrorist campaign, not Muslims. He didn’t go to a mosque and shoot up Muslims, he went to a progressive event and shot up progressives.
Okay, so I’m having such trouble finding his channel (I found a couple other ones of his that are all about law and they’re not the one I’m looking for) that I think it might be gone. However, I have found an entire blog dedicated to the unbelievable shit he says. It’s way worse than I thought:
http://peternolanstalker.blogspot.ca/
There’s some language that isn’t great in it (using “crazy” and the like to describe him a lot) but seriously, if you want to know just how over the top this guy is, check it out. Apparently HE’S ACTUALLY SAID that it men can LEGALLY KILL WOMEN AND CHILDREN SOMETIMES. I mean, like not just in self defense or something. Just because.
I really wish I knew how to make words link to an image because this is all I can think of right now: http://thewell.la/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/bubbles.gif
Falconer, you’re back! 🙂 (Captain Obvious here).
I don’t know if I should mention this, but …
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… one of your babbies has grown fur and a long tail.
Dvarg – I really hope Nolan walks across open land instead of on paths or roads. Just think of all the spiders and snakes we have lurking in the Oz bush, just waiting to pounce.
Holy shit! That blog I linked shows the Voice for Pierre comic about him!!
http://peternolanstalker.blogspot.ca/2013/02/now-its-peter-andrewnolan-comic.html
Gahahaha!
baileyrenee – What. The. Flying. Fuck. Is. Wrong. With. This. Dude.
Okay, I’m upgrading it from broken Legos to broken glass mixed with sand. May Nolan step on all of the broken glass as he doesn’t use roads.
@cloudiah – make sure your platypus is a she, not a he. The fellers have poison spurs on their back legs!
I am so pleased, that gorgeous vid was done at Healesville Sanctuary. Yay for Zoos Victoria!
@baileyrenee – GWW in the Illuminati? Quick, someone let Owly know!
@talacaris – OMG that was a throwback to the days of Owly, admiralty courts and all. Where’s a gold-fringed flag when you need it?
@ophelia – I kept reading “patronus” instead of patreon. Now if we could get a patronus as well, how cool.
@cerberus, hi!
@mathapprentice, hi (or should that be pi?)!