Paul Elam, the maximum leader of hate site A Voice for Men, has responded to the first wave of media coverage of his phony White Ribbon site with a truculent little rant.
Salon.com, Thinkprogress.org and the ever intellectually flatulent David Futrelle have rage-written on this issue barely 24 hours after we launched the site.
How does he know about the flatulence? In my defense, I’m still recovering from Dollar Taco Tuesday.
I was also just interviewed by Cosmopolitan Magazine, being asked such incisive questions as, “Do you think it is ever OK to hit a woman?”
I imagine that Cosmo was just trying to get a reaction from him, since it’s fairly well-known, at least among those who follow the Men’s Rights set, that Elam’s answer to the hitting women question is yes, yes, a thousand times yes! Indeed, Elam can barely restrain himself on the subject, having penned a short story, an allegedly “satirical” post and a serious, non-satirical post all laying out his case for punching women, and not only in self-defense.
Elam pauses his rant for a moment to make the whimsical assertion that his phony WhiteRibbon.org site is an “attempt to insert empiricism and genuine expertise into the discussion of violence in the home” before setting forth what he calls “a few facts” that he thinks will answer all questions.
One, White Ribbon Campaign is not trademarked by anyone. Deal with it.
Sorry, Paul. I don’t think this is the get out of jail card you think it is. The real White Ribbon campaign could assert common law trademark rights. It’s been around since 1991.
His other facts are kind of boring, so let’s just move on to the heart of the tantrum:
I have a message for Salon, ThinkProgress, Futrelle and anyone else bashing us for presenting valid research on a very real social problem. It is a message I will not use to sully the pages of WhiteRibbon.org.
This message is this: Go right straight to Hell you gang of bigoted, lying scumbags. That is, if Hell will even have you pieces of shit. …
That’s it. Write motherfuckers. Whine. Complain. Cry in your fucking Cheerios. The only thing you will ever accomplish is helping us spread the truth.
U mad bro?
I think he’s mad.
Oh, and one last thing. Send your lawyers. We will be happy to ride them for a while just for the fun of watching you pay the fucking bill.
Uh, who exactly are you talking to here? I’m pretty sure that neither I nor Salon nor ThinkProgress will be sending any lawyers. Someone else might, though. I guess we’ll have to see how that works out.
P.S. And while we’re talking about the spiteful immaturity of AVFMers, here’s an AVFM post from the YouTuber blabber “Mad Shangi” in which he actually boasts about acting like an obtuse diskhead in an, er, “debate” with me on Twitter.
More proof that it’s pointless to actually try to discuss anything with people who are either terminally thickheaded, or posting in bad faith, or, as seems to be the case with Mr. Shangi, a bit of both.
The time I went to the Newport Aquarium, I was trying to lure in some lorikeets with the little cup of nectar. One came over and landed on my hand, swung upside-down and punched a hole in the bottom of the little cup with its beak. All the nectar proceeded to pour out! I couldn’t be mad, because it was so cute.
Arctic Ape: Implies teeth, I think.
The Newport Aquarium brought a penguin to the Kentucky Legislature the year I was hanging around there. The penguin was SO CUTE. They brought it to session. It behaved itself in the House, but in the Senate it shit on the floor.
Because of the racism in the media coverage I read it as a racist slur joke too. Then I though ok, we are having a huge misunderstanding here, so I left it alone. I can’t always tell if that is a good or bad choice.
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Paul Elam is disgusting.
What’s not disgusting is How To Trap A Cat: http://www.boredpanda.com/how-to-trap-a-cat-circle/
Late to the party, haven’t really caught up on the thread, but I have to ask: why is he mad? Didn’t he want to piss people off? Wasn’t he boasting about it yesterday? Was he expecting that “pissed off” would consist of just a bunch of feminists and manginas impotently stewing while most of the world admired his cleverness for trying to steal from a charity? What’s going on here?
@marinerachel:
This One Weird Trick exploits a weakness in cat psychology…
Such an accusatory look from that cat.
Sooo…Mr. MegaTurd is angry?
Hmm…Let me take a nano second to see if I care about Paul Male’s..er…Paul Elam’s hissy fit.
Nope…nada…not a bit. In fact, I hope that he has an apoplectic fit and, you know, falls over.
The taco euphemism rattled around in my brain for a while while I was taking the dog for a walk. I was thinking “chalupa” or “pupusa”, and then I got it.
“Chupa Chups” = popular brand of lollipop, from chupar = “to suck” (see also Chupacabra)
put the two together: “chupa chalupa.” Or, if you prefer Salvadorean food, “chupa pupusa.” You’re welcome, Internet.
Things I learned from the comments on that post: ‘nonprofit’ means ‘volunteer’, and also nonprofit dv charities are money factories/ only exist to give jobs to women’s studies grads.
Mostly I’m just enjoying the irony of Elam stans accusing anyone else of grifting.
Wow. I generally despise Cosmo–they just do way too much gender policing and bad sex advice (as in, “Never tell a man what you want, make him guess because only Slutty McSluts use their words”) to be treated as anything but a bad joke, but that article did a nice job of ripping through Elam’s bullshit.
He honestly thinks that he can bully everyone and everything, including the legal system, into submission, doesn’t he? Sorry, angry abuser dude, that doesn’t work on institutions that are much bigger and more powerful than you are.
Also! Cosmo isn’t a feminist publication. They rather like a lot of old-school gender roles. When even they think you’re full of shit, that’s not a good sign in terms of your likelihood of winning the general public over.
Poor Paulie pooped his pants. Pity Pampers don’t come in his size.
Jill Filipovic wrote that Cosmo article. Interesting.
Yep, Jill’s got a gig at Cosmo now.
She is doing Cosmo’s political coverage, right? (I heard they decided since they were a magazone targeted at women they should have political coverage because women follow politics.)
Falconer – in Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio uses ‘medlar’ as a slang term for vulva. It’s a type of fruit that opens in a suggestive way.
Marinerachel – you’ve given me a new expletive. “Don’t that just burrito the sugar glider!”
Wait, Shambling Mounds are from people dying in a swamp? That is new. I don’t think they were originally swamp thing rip offs (although they did come out a few years after the comic), but they definitely are now.
So an ex-gf and I were talking about D&D items that so LD be stand ins for vulva/vaginas. (Long story about mishearing Boots of Whomping as Boobs of Whomping)
So I joke “portable hole”. She replies “coin purse”. I ask if I can make a deposit. She says “I can’t offer any interest.”
We both about died laughing.
Can’t believe this guy sets up a fraudulent website then rages when people see right through it. Can nobody commit a criminal offence these days without getting called out on it??? MISANDRY!!
Wait, I thought Shambling Mounds were just a semi-sentient carnivorous plant? Huh.
Though now all I can think of is The Horror of Party Beach and it’s sea anenamoe zombies or whatever the hell they were supposed to be.
Paul really doesn’t care about how far down the toilet his credibility goes, does he?