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A Voice for Men's Attila Vinczer is trying to "dox" me. It's not going well for him so far.

Not Attila Vinczer
Not Attila Vinczer

This morning I found a strange message in my notifications on Twitter:

Mr. Vinczer followed up this perplexing tweet with a bunch more insinuating that I’m a “hack,” a “pathological liar,” a “criminal,” and so on — as well as some links to what he apparently sees as “dirt” about me. (More on the latter in a moment.)

Apparently Vinczer — the “Activia Director” for men’s rights hate site A Voice for Men and the son of the genius who designed that AVFM commemorative coin — was stung by my gentle criticism of his father’s coin-designing skills.

So he has decided to dox me, apparently going as far as hiring a private detective to look into my allegedly sordid life.

So far his doxing of me is not going very well, in that the “dirt” he has dug up about me is either wildly inaccurate, not particularly “infamous”– or not information about me, specifically, at all.

His most serious not-quite accusation: That I’m a criminal. His proof? He’s dug up a 2008 arrest record for some other guy named David Futrelle, roughly a decade older than me, with a different middle initial, and living nearly 900 miles away from me. This man — frankly, he seems like an embarrassment to all of us David Futrelles — was charged with the crime of “possessing stolen goods.”

In case anyone is wondering, I’ve never been arrested. Except once, by campus police, for participating in a sit-in protesting apartheid. (The charges were later dropped.)

The other, er, “information” Attila has dug up is, while actually related to me and not to some other guy, is just a teensy bit inaccurate.

 

Attila L. Vinczer ‏@Alvhun 9h  Who is @DavidFutrelle ? http://sic1.nguso.com/Illinois/1132/313412506/David-Futrelle.html …      Reply     Retweet     2 Favorited  David Futrelle ‏@DavidFutrelle 2h  @Alvhun Yes, you got me. "David Futrelle is a U.S. company located in 147broadst, AMFOHARE, Illinois." My phone # is indeed 773 555-4444      Reply     Retweet     Favorite     Delete  Attila L. Vinczer ‏@Alvhun 2h  @DavidFutrelle Bullseye. 3:18 PM - 15 Jul 2014 · Details Hide conversation      Reply     Retweet     Favorite  Tweet text Reply to @Alvhun   David Futrelle ‏@DavidFutrelle 1h  @Alvhun Feel free to give me a call. That number again is 773 555-4444. I'll just hanging out in my home in AMFOHARE, Illinois.

NOTE: There is no city named AMFOHARE, Illinois, nor do any real telephone numbers in the US start with 555.

He has also managed to figure out that I have (gasp!) practiced journalism.

And he’s suggested that I might be, er, the Antichrist:

But two can play at this game. So I have begun digging up information about this Attila guy. And what I have discovered so far is shocking.

 

David Futrelle ‏@DavidFutrelle  @Alvhun Attila Viczer, is this you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila  Were you the ruler of the Huns from 434 until your death in 453?

David Futrelle ‏@DavidFutrelle  @Alvhun Attila, were you responsible for "so many murders and blood-lettings that the dead could not be numbered?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila

He’s been pretty cagey so far about his career as Number One Hun.

 

David Futrelle ‏@DavidFutrelle 2h  @Alvhun Attila Viczer, did you plunder the Balkans, and attempt to conquer Roman Gaul and Rome itself, devestating northern Italy?      Reply     Retweet     Favorite     Delete  Attila L. Vinczer ‏@Alvhun 1h  @DavidFutrelle Can you be more specific professor of lies. 3:16 PM - 15 Jul 2014 · Details Hide conversation      Reply     Retweet     Favorite  Tweet text Reply to @Alvhun   David Futrelle ‏@DavidFutrelle 1h  @Alvhun You know what you did, Attila! The Roman Gauls will not forget!

And neither will I.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Attila Vinczer is not actually the “Activia Director” of AVFM. He is the “Activism Director.” Activia is yogurt that makes you poop, allegedly. He is also not Attila the Hun, as far as I know.

 

 

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Flying Mouse
Flying Mouse
10 years ago

Proof of David’s sordid rock n’ roll past.

Gasp! That must have been before he settled down as a distinguished academic. Attila Vinczer had that part correct, he was a full Professor of Lies – on the tenure track and everything!

marinerachel
marinerachel
10 years ago

I’ve never said anything good about MRAs either. There’s nothing good to say about them. That’s their fault.

cloudiah
10 years ago

@cordis, Link to that?

Also, GWW is currently debating with AMR here: http://www.reddit.com/r/debateAMR/comments/2at4xc/feminists_what_do_you_think_of_this_article_on/

It turns out that racist and anti-Semitic stereotypes were primarily stereotypes about men, and it’s some kind of misdirection to point out they were actually motivated by … racism and anti-Semitism. Also, those attacks on black and Jewish men were all about protecting black and Jewish women. You’ve got to read it.

Lea
Lea
10 years ago

No one has ever said anything good about my dancing or water skiing abilities!
Antichrists! Antichrists everywhere!

Bina
10 years ago

Privacy: NOT a Men’s Right.

Good to know!

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

So GWW’s argument is that racism isn’t actually racism if it’s aimed at men? That certainly is an…interesting belief. Not a logical or ethically acceptable one, but interesting.

WatermelonSugar
WatermelonSugar
10 years ago

Is GWW seriously using the words “the Jews” and “the blacks” in that reddit post? Not just once, but multiple times?

….are you serious?

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

If David is the Antichrist does that mean the rest of us are the, um, many horsemen? If so I wanna be War from Good Omens.

cloudiah
10 years ago

More from GWW:

You would have a point if I’d claimed that black women or Jewish women were not negatively stereotyped. I said nothing of the sort. What I said was that the stereotypes of black and Jewish men align with negative cultural perceptions of masculinity, not cultural perceptions of all blacks or all Jews (other than superficial things like big noses and big lips).
Oddly enough, I don’t see any of the black women in the links raping women (or men). Mostly, they are victims of stereotypes of women NOT being traditionally feminine–big nose, unmodest, ugly, hyper-sexual. Yet the men are portrayed as HYPER-masculine (at least in our age of “toxic masculinity”). They are, in modern parlance, the ultimate expression of not pathology, but maleness. Rapey and violent.
So. Black men are seen as hyper-sexual. And some black women are portrayed as such. Black men are seen as violent. And some black women are portrayed as such. Is this where you claim that calling a man a pussy is misogyny, because you’re telling him he’s like a woman? But telling a black woman that she’s evil because she’s like every black man that has ever been portrayed is… what? More misogyny?

This seems like a pretty good example of being not even wrong.

marinerachel
marinerachel
10 years ago

Yes, GWW, that’s why white Christian men have always married Jewish and black women, who were totes considered human. Because it was only black and Jewish MEN who were hated.

Oh, wait. That never happened!

It must get exhausting, performing these mental gymnastics in your kitchen, all in an effort to reap validation from the biggest losers on the internet. How about getting a worthwhile hobby like soccer or pottery?

And why the fuck has no one ever said anything good about my watercolour paintings? Couldn’t be because there’s shit-all good about them. Antichrists, all of you!

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

They look like sentences, but then you read them and they don’t make any sense.

cloudiah
10 years ago

I feel like GWW “wins” arguments online by saying shit that is so fractally wrong that you can’t even figure out a way to respond to it.

WatermelonSugar
WatermelonSugar
10 years ago

More Girlwriteswhat:

If people in the Jim Crow South didn’t hate blacks and see them as an out-group, they’d have seen black and white men as equally rapey and violent. If Japan and America were not at war, the Japanese would have seen white men as not much more rapey and violent than Japanese men. If Hitler loved Jews, the rapiness and violence of Jewish men wouldn’t have been an issue for him to propagandize.

…and they are inviting this person to speak at Kennesaw State University?

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

People just sit there with confused expressions on their faces saying “what? wait, what?” over and over again. And then she declares victory.

Lea
Lea
10 years ago

GWW is trying to gain more head pats from the men in a primarily white, misogynist “movement” by trying to appropriate the suffering of non-whites and Jews for that misogynist movement while denying that non-white and Jewish women suffer and have suffered from racism and antisemitism?
>.<
Fetch me my bucket.

cassandrakitty
cassandrakitty
10 years ago

It’s like that scene in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure where Napoleon knocks over the chessboard, basically.

Bina
10 years ago

I guess we now know the answer to the question implied by GWW’s moniker. It’s bullshit. A metric fuck-tonne of bullshit.

marinerachel
marinerachel
10 years ago

Teh jooz! She can’t even REPRESENT teh menz without shitting on social minorities. Oh, GWW, your human rights activism is astounding.

And of course men of different ethnicities are considered more capable of harm than women of those ethnicities. Women of all enthicities are considered less complex and competent than men of the same ethnicity.

Show me a version of racism in which black women aren’t portrayed as lacking control, immodest and volatile though.

Lea
Lea
10 years ago

I call horseman of Bad Hair Days!

cloudiah
10 years ago

I am claiming that however white men are portrayed, black men are portrayed similarly but as if on steroids.
The themes remain the same, it’s only a matter of degree. The difference is not in the stereotype, but in the degree.
Are black, Jewish, German and American women commonly portrayed as rapey and violent?

cloudiah
10 years ago

I mean, this is why white men were so frequently the victims of lynching, and male Aryan Nazis were so frequently sent to concentration camps. Nothing to do with bigotry. Just the regular trials and tribulations of being men, on steroids.

marinerachel
marinerachel
10 years ago

However white women are portrayed, women of ethnic minorities are portrayed similarly but as if on steroids.

kamilla1960
kamilla1960
10 years ago

This is so painful. My wonderful little brother is an Attila. Please don’t tar all Attilas with the same brush.

damselindetech
10 years ago

Girl Writes… Wut?

filo4000
filo4000
10 years ago

You will rue the day you made fun of my coin, David!

Nice to know where the 30k went