This morning I found a strange message in my notifications on Twitter:
@DavidFutrelle Uncovers, the unrecoverable about MRAs in his own little feeble mind. Has he ever said anything good about MRAs? Anything?
— Attila L. Vinczer (@AttilaVinczer) July 15, 2014
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.
PI will confirm, every living and non living fact about you. Enjoy your soon to be elevated infamous public status.
— Attila L. Vinczer (@AttilaVinczer) July 15, 2014
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.”
Who is @DavidFutrelle ? A criminal? http://t.co/FNBy7eNoCt
— Attila L. Vinczer (@AttilaVinczer) July 15, 2014
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.
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.
@Alvhun Wow. You have determined that I once wrote a piece for The American Prospect. I don't live in their offices in DC, though, FYI.
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) July 15, 2014
And he’s suggested that I might be, er, the Antichrist:
@DavidFutrelle is infatuated with #mrm with heavy leaning on AVFM. Could @DavidFutrelle be the Antichrist or just a cheap antagonist wannabe
— Attila L. Vinczer (@AttilaVinczer) July 15, 2014
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.
He’s been pretty cagey so far about his career as Number One Hun.
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.
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!
I’ve never said anything good about MRAs either. There’s nothing good to say about them. That’s their fault.
@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.
No one has ever said anything good about my dancing or water skiing abilities!
Antichrists! Antichrists everywhere!
Privacy: NOT a Men’s Right.
Good to know!
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.
Is GWW seriously using the words “the Jews” and “the blacks” in that reddit post? Not just once, but multiple times?
….are you serious?
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.
More from GWW:
This seems like a pretty good example of being not even wrong.
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!
They look like sentences, but then you read them and they don’t make any sense.
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.
More Girlwriteswhat:
…and they are inviting this person to speak at Kennesaw State University?
People just sit there with confused expressions on their faces saying “what? wait, what?” over and over again. And then she declares victory.
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.
It’s like that scene in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure where Napoleon knocks over the chessboard, basically.
I guess we now know the answer to the question implied by GWW’s moniker. It’s bullshit. A metric fuck-tonne of bullshit.
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.
I call horseman of Bad Hair Days!
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.
However white women are portrayed, women of ethnic minorities are portrayed similarly but as if on steroids.
This is so painful. My wonderful little brother is an Attila. Please don’t tar all Attilas with the same brush.
Girl Writes… Wut?
You will rue the day you made fun of my coin, David!
Nice to know where the 30k went