The last we heard from Men’s-Rights-adjacent eccentric Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c), he was falsely accusing an Ohio University student of being a false rape accuser and posting her personal information on the internet.
Now he’s back in the news again with an exciting new social media venture. While Paul Elam takes on the world of publishing with his Possibly Still Unnamed Publishing House for Men Who Don’t Write Good (not its real name), Nolan(c) is taking on an even bigger target: Facebook.
Nolan(c), who for complicated crackpot reasons now goes by the name Joschua-Brandon: Boehm(c), has just launched ManBook, his version of Facebook, but for men only. While ManBook might look to the world like a glorified blog, Nolan(c) Boehm sees it as a viable alternative to the alleged misandrist tyranny and “censorship” of “fascist book.”
Well, unless you’re a woman. If you’re a woman and try to post on ManBook, Nolan(c) Boehm(c) explains, he has the right to kill you.
Nolan(c) Boehm(c) explains this rather strict comment policy as follows:
We have asked politely for women to not register but you are registering anyway. This shows total lack of respect for our right to freedom of association. We do not wish to associate with women in this place. Period. …
We would ask you women to respect our rights as you wish your rights to be respected. If you are unwilling to respect our right to freedom of association do not expect men to respect your right to life. Ok?
So far ManBook is little more than a collection of blog posts by Nolan(c) Boehm(c) with a smattering of comments, but the site has gotten a bit of media attention, inspiring posts on Raw Story and Jezebel, mostly because of that whole “killing women” thing.
While Nolan(c) Boehm(c) is clearly delighted with all the traffic that his new notoriety has brought him, he doesn’t feel he’s getting a fair shake on the whole “right to kill women who post comments” deal. In a post today, he responded to one critic with this, er, clarification of his philosophy:
[Y]ou have to love the fact that he actually encourages women to go and join the site thereby encouraging women to violate the right of freedom of association. This is why men are now starting to kill women more often in divorce. Because men openly encourage women to violate the rights of other men and then pretend to be “horrified” when the men defend their rights with force, up to and including deadly force.
But, you know, if you’re a dude, Nolan(c) Boehm(c) would love you to sign up for his wannabe Facebook-killer site. You can even log into his site … using Facebook.
ManBook is not Nolan(c) Boehm(c)’s first attempt to take on an internet giant. He is also the man behind a little site called A-MAN-ZON. THE politically incorrect store for MEN.
… which also looks suspiciously like a blog. I’m not even sure that there’s a way to buy anything on the site. There are no links to actual products or categories of products on the site’s main page, and a search for books turns up one online “book” that you can “buy” for free.
In a welcome note on A-Man-Zon, Nolan(c) Boehm(c) can’t help but come back to the whole evil-women issue:
Stop spending your money with men who will sell products and services to men and then take that money and give it to women to spend on lawyers in the divorce courts until the man is so harassed and so broke that he decides to kill himself like Robin Williams did this week.
And the FIRST such man-hating, mangina, white-knight, sexist, discriminatory, bigot that I recommend men stop spending money with is Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos is one of the worlds biggest man-hating, mangina, white-knight, sexist, discriminatory, bigots.
Jeff Bezos openly employs tens of thousands of women who have committed crimes against fathers in divorce courts. He is completely un-apologetic about that.
Despite the name, Nolan(c) Boehm(c) makes it clear that women are allowed to buy from A-Man-Zon — at least if they are
“good women” who are “man enough” not to be “offended” by other peoples opinions … #WomenAgainstFeminism are welcome to be buyers of products and services here.
So he apparently has no problem accepting women’s money — just their opinions.
EDIT: Added links, fixed a few proofreading things.
I had never heard of this freeman of the land business and for the last day or so have been down the rabbit hole. The fact that the second googe hit leads to a mumsnet discussion makes me wonder how I have (luckily) avoided this phenomenon. My biggest take away is how all these ‘philosophies’ of being strong just massively prey on the weak. It’s fricking disgusting.
Yeah, ‘Freemen on the Land’ or ‘Sovereign Citizens’ are what you get when you start with a base of ‘Cargo Cult Law’ (as in, treating the surface appearance and actions as some sort of magical act with no understanding of the underlying principles, and believing that if you do things exactly right you will get whatever you want).
Then you add in a whole batch of conspiracy theories about things like the creation of the central bank being unconstitutional and thus the government being invalid, and the birth certificate being a contract in which people are sold off to finance the national debt (which is what leads to the weird punctuation names, as they refuse to identify with the name on the birth certificate).
Mix in with a large dose of religious fundamentalism from people who consider themselves citizens of Heaven just staying here on Earth for a while, and consider all Earthly powers to be at best unimportant and more likely the works of the devil.
Boil it along with the unfortunate human tendency to treat some beliefs as fundamental parts of their identity, with the result that any attempts to show that they are wrong become direct attacks on them, causing them to both entrench deeper into the beliefs and to lash out at anybody trying to correct them. And as the people trying to correct them are often employees of the state they already believe is illegitimate, such as police, judges, and court officers serving a summons…
On top of that, light the whole thing off with several people who actually can tell fantasy from reality and are just using this as a money-making opportunity to sell ‘how to beat the system’ schemes, who feed all the conspiracy theories even higher; though that group is becoming less important as the critical mass of conspiracy theory has become long since self-sustaining.
Season with the ability to compartmentalize: to these folks, the law is a set of magical phrases and an entity unto itself, dissociated from the evil government who merely uses the law to oppress people. The questions above on who they think enforces copyright law simply don’t actually register.
Let it all ferment in with militia groups and other distrustful souls who can live in remote areas where they don’t necessarily have to face the consequences of their actions until they’ve gone completely down the rabbit hole Clive Bundy-style.
Find a safe place before serving.
Err sorry, but what does ggg stand for? (Has tried google to no avail.) anyone have a link if for some reason it can’t be typed?)
Thanks
This whole thing makes my fondly reminisce about the catastrophe that was Galt’s Gulch. It’s almost as if empathy deficient selfish arses probably aren’t the most qualified people to set up a sanctuary for other humans. Even if those other humans are as morally corrupt as the first lot. Who knew!
The first Game stands for government. The second G for gets. The third for girlfriends. He apparently Googles himself a lot so that’s why nobody wants to type the full name. Hopefully I put in enough other words to not attract his attention.
Um. My phone auto corrected G to game for some reason.
Because you see it is illegal for women to work, this is why we have to date the government…no wait. Women hate working and love raising children alone! Because women are wholly responsible for sex and the consequences thereof! Now it makes sense….Wait?
It’s such a shame for his arguement that the expection of right to life is not in the hands of the women registering, but is a requirement of the f88king law.
Oh! Yes! Adam Ant!!!
That’s not an ecclesiastical pursuit chariot…THIS is:
http://www.viking-mythology.com/images/Freya_rode_in_a_chariot_pulled_by_two_black_or_gray_cats.gif
The cats’ names were Bygul and Trjegul (“bee-gold” and “tree-gold”, respectively). In English, they’d be called Honey and Amber.
Who is SSM? I mean what was her identity before this new blog?
Omg that is awesome. I like words and wordplay, and somehow Bee-Gold/Honey and Tree-Gold/Amber is making me so happy.
Isn’t it the best?
I actually had two cats by those (English) names, although I didn’t get the naming of either one. Honey was named by my sister, and Amber by my brother (whose cat she initially was). They were not a well-matched chariot-pulling team, unfortunately. They didn’t get along — Honey was antsy, and Amber a bit of a bully.
Next time I adopt cats, their names shall be Bygul and Trjegul, and I shall get a tiny chariot to place behind them while they sleep, so as to facilitate EPIC PHOTOS.
I saw a video taken by a Freeman on the Land/Sovereign Citizen type. He was in the anteroom of a courtroom, narrating himself preparing to go in and act a fool. When he attempted to enter the courtroom, still recording, he was warned by a bailiff (?) to turn the phone off. He refuses, attempts to push his way past, and is Tased. The phone keeps recording as he falls to the floor, crying out in dismay.
It is to ordinary Schadenfreude what brandy is to grape juice.
Very much seconded. I know a lot of autistic children and teenagers, and one thing that you learn very quickly about the condition is that it’s impossible to generalise about it.
Just to give an example, I know a child who is undoubtedly autistic by any yardstick you care to name – so obviously so that he was diagnosed before his third birthday, which is unusually young. And yet he’s quite open to change, is relaxed about trying different foods, he’s never once lined things up in a particular order and thrown a tantrum if anyone disturbs it: you know, all the things that autistic people are “supposed” to have a problem with. In fact, hang out with him for a minute and you’d think he was neurotypical. But hang out with him for five, and you’ll quickly grasp that he’s anything but.
I know plenty of autistic kids who would react identically – including the one I’ve just described.
Next time I have a pair of gray kittens, I am SO naming them Bygul and Trjegul.
I’ve also been waiting for a white kitten I can name Pangur Ban.
Sunshine Mary, I think. She had a blog which was all about being a traditionally feminine, submissive housewife. She’s MRA-adjacent, I guess?
Oh and the blog was also about being horrible to other women.
DO IT!
Robert – oh damn that would be worth seeing!
My BIL named his cat Pangur Ban and she’s not even white. He just couldn’t resist the name.
That actually sounds…pretty horrible. I only enjoy my schadenfreude without physical pain, thanks.
Norman Lindsay (Australian artist and writer – he wrote The Magic Pudding, among other things) had a cat called Pangur Ban, too. This is the portrait Lindsay did of him:
http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/02/24/09/0224098ba63c3897669934e8f63459b5.jpg
I am so looking forward to seeing this. And all the other little Beegolds and Treegolds, too!
Link please! I must see that, even if it makes me a Terrible Person.
I am starting to refer to these idjits as Slobberin’ Shittizens, myself. Because when you think about it, their name is an oxymoron. If you’re a citizen, you are in actual fact NOT “sovereign”; you are subject to the same noisome pesky laws of the land as everybody else, like it or not. And elaborate legalistic admiralty-flag mumbo-jumbo or not.