So earlier in the week I received an email with the subject line “$1000 donation to Paul Elam thank to you David!”
The email was a copy of a note this generous fellow evidently sent to Elam along with a $100 donation and a promise to send more.
But the email wasn’t so much about Elam as it was about me, or at least about an imaginary version of me that the email-writer has cooked up in his own fevered imagination, and who for some reason he calls “David Futtreele.”
After referencing that recent Buzzfeed article (which was not of course written by me), the letter writer moved on to his main complaints about me (or at least about imaginary me): that I’m a fat man-hater that no woman will ever have sex with.
It’s true that I’m fat.
This seems to me an odd reason to donate money to Paul Elam, but, hey, Paul, you’re welcome.
Here’s the note, unedited. I’m leaving it in its original wall-o-text form, though I have redacted the guy’s name.
Dear Paul Elam
60-80% of the population knows Buzzfeed TRIED to turn what we ALL go through with broken westernise women into something bad… About 80% of the male population can relate to this except David Futtreele that has never been laid before or ever will!
DAVID FUTTREELE ISN’T INTELLIGENT AT ALL… any NORMAL human being in their 40s would have asked themselves, “why can’t attracted a women. Is it because I’m a broken man = YES” Paul, you have been in 3 marriages and have dated allot of women. Did David ever think “I have allot of followers like Paul Elam but no one wants to have sex with me, there must be something wrong with me” and there serious is! Seriously, the loser properly lives in a basement with his mum and we both know he HATES his FATHER. I bet his father was never there as a boy so he create this bullshit website to vent his anger at every man on the planet. He hates men cause of his father was never there… what a fucking loser… Seriously… a normal man would move on from shit like this but no… he still runs a website after all these years, attracting broken people like himself and spends ALL THIS TIME researching issues that men’s have and writes against it…. You can’t get any LOWER when you hate your own sex and I bet the poor bastard EATS cause he feels a void that he tries to fill up but never can fill!! He denies his male characteristics which causes him to eat! We both know THE BODY IS A REFLECTION OF THE MIND hence why we both are healthy looking but have u seen photos of this guy. Seriously, if he wasn’t SO FAT, I reckon he would be able to pick up chicks but wait… he is a broken man based on his beliefs where we BOTH know if you are broken as a person, you won’t be able to attract people or women! Seriously…. Any NORMAL human being would have woken up by 40… My point is Paul, if the guy doesn’t get over his daddy issues and hating men for picking on him as a child, the guy is going to die alone where the only thing he has is his shitty website. We both know people that run blogs and are on it all the time have MAJOR issues. It’s called ‘Social Media Addiction’ where the loser David is addicted to attention via women because it’s the only attention he can get. At least you are trying to change things, David is just PMSING all over the internet due to his daddy issues… Seriously Paul… I pitty the guy… He will die alone and not grow mentally and emotionally because he isn’t smart enough to work out OR FACE his own issue cause HE IS VERY VERY WEAK MAN!! No woman would ever touch him cause women want strong men like us that have faced their demons! Energy radiates around us compare to David Futtreele which causes women to run away because he is weak and not very intelligent! Fuck… even junkies wake up and admit they have a issues! In David’s case, I like to believe there is hope but some people are 2 blinded by their hate (his father/pain from other man in his past [my money is on bullying]), that they never wake up and deal with problems like both you and I. We are strong, David is a weak… I won’t EVER lose any sleep over a loser!
Paul, the media only dug this up cause you’re doing a great job and they see you as a threat now! The media will make you out to be a monster for now but any attention by the media will just bring more followers. You actually have the balls to put yourself out there just like Martin Luther King. I have so much respect for you!!!
I believe you knew your daughter would be a threat to your cause BUT cause you LOVE HER so much, you continued to have her in your life! Anyone can see the pitiful fight you are having like nearly EVERY parent on the planet has except David Futtreele who will die alone in his basement!
History will look at you as a liberator and a HERO cause you can’t fight biology. It doesn’t matter how much you try to brainwash the human race, dysfunctional feminist beliefs will never win long term! People deny their natural urges which result in poor health!
Enjoy the $100 donation and expect more again later this year! You are getting things moving for mens rights… if i was a millionaire i would be donating at least $1, 000,000 every year. For now, I will continue to donate $1000 every year until men and women are treated equal as well as a healthy families life is encourage compare to greed and narcissistic traits.
[NAME REDACTED]
Let’s have a big round of applause for the Men’s Human Rights movement, everyone!
I wonder how many of Elam’s supporters write him notes like this?
@ Ellesar
That’s similar to the housing situation in Hong Kong. My uncle of sixty-something cannot afford his own flat, subsequently he has literally been living with his parents until they passed away; mind you he’s also married with three kids.
With the economic downturn a lot of young people are living with their parents. I’m not one of them at the moment, but it would be pretty silly to blame them for the results of the decisions of, largely, babyboomers and their predecessors.
Something which is continuing to be exacerbated by babyboomers not retiring.
I’m between GenX and GenY, and I’m super tired of the hatred everyone seems to have for the Y kids. If they don’t drive it’s because they recognize cars are dangerous and expensive; if they don’t move away from parents it’s because they have a realistic view of their economic situation; if they don’t marry right out of college, it’s because they realize that often leads to divorce and they don’t want that.
tl/dr version: “David Futrelle can’t get laid (allegedly), so he must be a broken man. Unlike all those anti-feminists who can’t get laid because WOMEN DON’T DATE NICE GUYS!”
I can’t read the note. I tried three times, and my brain kept choking on the atrocious grammar and the mutilation of the English language.
If my fans wrote me emails like this I would be so sad.
I’m a young person moving in with my baby boomer parents tomorrow. I’m not ashamed, it’s a financial necessity at the moment. Things will change for the better. I’ve spent a decent amount of time on my own two feet so can’t say I didn’t try to stay independent.
I lived with my parents for the better part of a year when I was in my early thirties. And I also had a girlfriend AT THE SAME TIME. I know – this shouldn’t compute, should it?
QFT. I know every generation hits middle age and starts wanking about the younger generation being shiftless and lazy, but the berating that boomers have leveled at millennials is almost entirely based on millennials either adapting to or pushing back against the shit conditions that boomers left for them.
Thank you magicat I wish you good luck too. And thank you all for listening and good luck to anyone who has the same issues and will get the help you need.
Aww… the adorable alot! The rest of the note is oddly rude, but everyone loves the alot. Such a majestic creature.
Just thought i’d leave this here:
http://www.justiceformenandboys.com
P.S. It’s not what you think it is.
Re: the hating on GenY kids — bonus points if said relatives pull the “I’m older than you so I know more!” when you try to explain, f’ex, why you just plain cannot live on minimum wage.
Just throwing in my throes on American demonization of living with parents thread.
I remember discussing in a doc class that during world war 2 it was difficult to get men to leave their families to fight over seas at first. staying around to help parents and family, especially if they were on a farm was the norm. So the military started to promote leaving home as the “manly adult thing” to do. This also was useful for corporations later to get this professionals to move to new headquarters or move across the country for work and the idea you have to move away from family to get a good job, especially in rural areas, also became the norm as farming jobs plummeted. Mind you, there’s lot of other stuff going on to support and enforce the “move out asap” norm in ‘Mercia, but I thought that was part of it.
Obviously , I need to go find some citations now…
Okay “my thoughts” not “throes” I sound as bad as Mr. NAME REDACTED.
I need to hug that ALOT!
Love all the Alots! *holds torch high*
Besides, who’s really the lazy and entitled one, the GenYer who checks work emails from home on their cell or the boomer who thinks that they get to magically stop working when they go home and gets pissed when you call them on their vacation?
I think everyone should get to “magically” stop working when they go home, or get pissed if you call them on vacation!
Being married three times and to not give a shit about his children….thats nothing to be proud of. Paul Elam is not cool.
Why do mras promote this? But complain if a woman was married more than two times, even if she actually cares about her children ?
Being married three times and to not give a shit about his children….thats nothing to be proud of. Paul Elam is not cool.
Why do mras promote this? But complain if a woman was married more than two times, even if she actually cares about her children
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Hey, I’m a gen y er and if you expect me to work on my vacation you can fuck off at all.
The socialist in me says “fuck that”, I get paid hourly so I ain’t doing a goddamned thing at home.
^^Seconding this. If I’m at home or on vacation, I don’t want to work. Period. Home is for RELAXING, not more work (which is why I’m opposed to giving kids homework as well). I despise this habit of “You must be working/thinking about working all the time or your life is a *FAILURE*”. No. I will not work until I drop. I want to work so I can live comfortably, and that means having downtime to relax.
On a happier note, Happy Valentine’s Day everyone. I spent the first part of my day doodling a Silent Hill 2 themed valentine’s card because one of my favorite Let’s Players picked up the game, and now I’m watching him finish it. :,3
So many feelings.
Doesn’t it feel better for men knowing that their partner is a willing participant and that she is enjoying it as much as he is? Don’t they know that mutual pleasure is more fun and satisfying? I can’t imagine that having sex with someone who is unwilling to be very enjoyable. My guess is that at best it would feel somewhat like (if you excuse my crudeness) having sex with a limp fish. I for one would definitely prefer to have sex with someone who actually wants to. It seems to me that they can’t do logic AT ALL. ^^;
I would say that the email was an epic troll, esp considering how it was forwarded to David too, but if they really gave $100 to AVFM that implies its genuine. Unless they are lying about donating of course.
That’s because you guys aren’t reporters, where it is expected that you will come in if there is an emergency like a tornado that strikes a town. That’s an automatic all-hands.
Anyone wishing to work a 9-5 job should very, very definitely not be a reporter, or alternately, expect those hours to be a capstone at the very end of a long career. If you’re extremely lucky. And you should get used to working weekends, too.