Longtime readers of this blog will be familiar with a fellow who used to call himself Peter-Andrew: Nolan© — with the hyphen and the colon and the copyright symbol — and now calls himself Joschua-Brandon: Boehm© — also with a hyphen and a colon and a copyright symbol.
I think it’s fair to say he’s the world’s worst MRA.
He doxes people with impunity (and doesn’t much mind if he’s got the wrong person) and is forever making vaguely (or not-so-vaguely) threatening statements (he once suggested that he had the right to murder women who visited his men-only website, and has declared what he calls a WAR OF RETURN (in red, in all caps) on the women in the world). He wrote of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik that “in different times” the mass murderer “would be called a hero.”
Yesterday a Twitter user alerted me to Nolan©/Boehm©’s Twitter account, where he has been preaching this same gospel: that as long as there are laws that (he thinks) allow women to get away with crimes against men, men will be effectively forced to inflict violence upon women, often with lethal effects.
Here are an assortment of Tweets from his timeline yesterday; I think you’ll get the gist of his, er, argument fairly quickly.
Given Nolan©/Boehm©’s penchant for making flamboyantly awful statements like this, it probably won’t come as a surprise that even some of the world’s most terrible MRAs have made a point of trying to distance themselves from him. Last year, a writer for A Voice for Men declared Nolan©/Boehm© “A Danger to Self and Others,” suggesting that he was so far into “the nutter zone” that he might as well be a feminist.
The MRM and specifically AVfM doesn’t need nor want so-called Men’s Rights advocates like Nolan. Those who deem it necessary to use individuals like him as a poster child of the men (and women) within the Men’s Human Rights Movement need to take notice: Nolan is NOT a Men’s Rights Activist. Actually, now that I think about it, I think Nolan would better fit within the feminist ranks. Right up there with the likes of Dworkin, Steinem, Marcotte and the rest of those hate-mongers.
There are various problems with this, er, argument, and I’m not just talking about the absurdity of trying to convince the world that a man who has literally declared war on women is a feminist. No, I’m talking about the fact that, if you strip away some of Nolan©/Boehm©’s more eccentric conspiratorial beliefs, A Voice for Men has basically been saying the same things as he has for years.
Here are four quotes. Two of them were written by Nolan©/Boehm©; the other two were written by AVFM’s Paul Elam. Can you tell which of these men wrote which quotes?
- The most pervasive element of western civilization today is its hatred of men and all things male. There is a particularly strong hatred of fathers and husbands. … It is only natural and normal that some men decide to take matters into their own hands at all the hatred spewed at them and their marginalization.
- It is a testament to men, and an exposure of lies perpetrated against them by gender ideologues that we have come this last half century without blood in the streets. It has always been in men’s nature to take care of others better than themselves, and they have proven that with their silence in the face of so many constant abuses. Betting on that silence to continue when men are hungry is foolish. … anyone, even men, if backed into a corner and kicked long enough and hard enough, will come out swinging.
- These “past injustices” that women claim are bogus and do not stand the test of any scrutiny at all. The adult female human being has been the most pampered and protected animal to ever live on the face of the planet … [W]omen have, for millenia, suffered no consequences for attacking men and lying pathologically about men. No consequences at all. Yours is the first generation of young men who might choose to demonstrate to women that there are consequences for waging a WAR OF AGGRESSION on men.
- The day I see one of these absolutely incredulous excuses for a judge dragged out of his courtroom into the street, beaten mercilessly, doused with gasoline and set afire by a father who just won’t take another moment of injustice, I will be the first to put on the pages of this website that what happened was a minor tragedy that pales by far in comparison to the systematic brutality and thuggery inflicted daily on American fathers by those courts and their police henchmen. It would not even so much be a tragedy as the chickens coming home to roost.
Give up? 1 and 3 are Nolan©/Boehm©; 2 and 4 are Paul Elam, easily the most influential MRA out there today.
In other words, this sort of rhetoric isn’t just something that happens on the margins of the Men’s Rights movement. No, it comes as well from those at the very center of the movement.
This should be reported to the Australian police. It sounds like his ex is in serious danger. If not, he could easily become an active shooter.
Clarification regarding the new rules: Can we say that this guy really comes off as being a God’s-honest no-hyperbole serial killer with a basement that would scare the skin suit off Buffalo Bill?
Sam, the good news is that, as far as I know, he’s in Germany, and Australia won’t let him back in. His wife, last I heard, was in another European country that also won’t let him in. He also recently spent time in a German jail for, I believe, overstaying his visa. So authorities on at least 2 continents are aware of him.
M, yeah I think that’s allowable.
He should have been put on long term probation after being released from jail. LONG term probation. Thank God that gun laws in Germany are incredibly strict and since he was a convicted felon he has no hope in hell of obtaining a licence.
Laws against hate speech are also very strict over there, and these tweets alone would most likely land him in trouble. I think the authorities need to be alerted again.
I got the quotes right. Quote 3 could be addressed to Nolan because OF SUDDEN CAPS which he likes. I remembered Quote 4 from on earlier article on your blog (mostly the light a judge on fire part had sticked). I managed to pin Quote 2 to Elam mainly because of his complicated way of writing. Quote 1 and 2 are nearly identical in content.
The only direct difference in views discernible is that Elam sometimes blames other men for the ‘privilege’ of women whereas Nolan focuses his aggression solely on women.
@David Futrelle:
I think you were being misleading with the quote game. You didn’t include random words written IN ALL CAPS in bright red for Boehm’s quotes!
Seriously, I followed some links back around to his “manbook” website (which seriously… it’s just a blog…) and it looked like the webpage had an angry case of chickenpox.
Where’s he originally from? And why isn’t he allowed back to Australia (or the other European country)? Do I even want to know?
The level of delusion these asshats have achieved is herculean. They make skinheads look almost sane. Almost.
Jesus Christ. He should absolutely be alerted to the authorities again.
http://www.donotlink.com/framed?634214
I felt sick reading that. Warning: severe apologism for rape and violence against women. Of course.
Oh shit wrong URL. I meant to link to today’s post on titled “Another Dead Woman”. You can find in the Recent Posts section, I don’t know how to use DoNotLink and I am NOT giving him the clicks.
I guessed 1 and 4 were Elam. Oh, well.
The rest of the MRM only have a problem with Nolan because he’s completely honest about his misogyny and he makes it more difficult for them to play dumb when the rest of us suggest that the MRM is less about doing anything positive for men and more about woman hating.
Shut up, Woody.
Oh god, I was driving in to work today wondering what sPANC was up to, and what Tommy “Hard Chairs” had got done on that “documentary” he was pushing last year. Serendipity!
Is it sPANC or Mr. Hard Chairs who flipped his (metaphorical) wig when someone here tweaked his nose about having a receding hair line?
I just flagged one of Nolan’s Youtube videos as promoting hate or violence, gave the timestamp and details and everything. Does Youtube tell the person who flagged their video? Given his propensity for doxxing I realise I may have made a mistake by doing that…
I’m curious as to what crimes he alleges women get away with. Does he explain this at all? Or is it just one of those abstract reasons that “women are bad”?
@sunnysombrera:
In all the cases where I’ve seen someone complain about their videos being flagged, I don’t recall a single case where they seemed to know who the flagger/s was/were. I think you’re safe.
@Falconer:
That was definitely Hard chairs. And now you’ve got me wondering whatever happened to that documentary too. Wasn’t he going to go to the street and ask random people to tell jokes to see how funny they were, and see if feminists are more or less funny than other folks?
I remember quite a long conversation about all the ways this was a useless endeavor.
“Do what we say or we’ll kill you.”
@Fnoicby Here is a quote from the blog post I linked that might give some insight. Bolded bits are my own doing. WARNING. MASSIVE RAPE AND VIOLENCE APOLOGISM.
The first bolded bit seems to be a very dramatised version of MRA talking points: child custody, divorce, not sure about ‘job security’ but maybe he means when a woman ‘steals’ a man’s job? Nolan blames these things most overtly for violence against women. In his video he also claims women are “condoning the criminal victimisation of men” by which I think he means “women are reporting men who have committed crimes to the authorities”? Or “women are pushing for criminalising things (that men do against them) that I don’t think should be criminalised”?
The second bolded bit is the most chilling. It ties in with his idea that men rape and kill because ‘they know they’ll be 4th class citizens’ and yet MOCKS the woman who was scared enough to take out a restraining order!
Also, as much as I hate to admit agreement with an AVFM writer Nolan most certainly is a danger to himself and others. In his video he claimed to be the leader of a movement to “secure rights for men and boys” and then blatantly threatened women by saying (paraphrased) “if you don’t help me and do what I say there’ll be more violence.”
Sunnysombrera: About the restraining order: he’s right in saying that it’s “just” a piece of paper that will not hold the respondent back if they really decide to harm the other party. I’m not familiar with statistics on RO violation but it sadly seems common enough. (Although I suspect it works fine for most people.)
OK, so I figured out he’s from Australia. I didn’t know you can be denied entry to your own country. I thought that’s the only place that is kind of forced to take you back (even if to lock you up).
@Elf He’s is correct, but it’s still in the kind of “she had it coming” tone he uses whenever talking about violence against women.
That’s true, yes. I guess I’m so used to that from these people that I don’t even twitch to it any more.
Wasn’t Nolan also involved in some pedophilia-related scandal — promoting sex with children or something similar?
Ah thanks, sonnysombrera. I couldn’t stomach a look at his website. So it seems like it’s more about ambiguous “crimes” rather than actual illegal things.