Men’s Rights Activists love to “warn” women that they may soon face a day of reckoning if they don’t shape up and start acting the way MRAs think they should. Don’t make men angry, they say; you wouldn’t like us when we’re angry!
Still, most MRAs making these “predictions” at least make a token effort to pretend to be horrified at the notion of men rising up to wreak vengeance upon uppity women. This isn’t what we want, they assure women; it’s just what will happen if you continue to “provoke” men with your bad behavior.
Other MRAs find it impossible to contain their glee; like doomsday preppers with well-stocked bunkers and enough ammo to kill every living thing within a 500 mile radius, they can’t wait for the end of the world.
Peter Andrew Nolan is one of these other MRAs. And he’s started to celebrate a little bit early.
In a series of recent blog posts and Tweets, Nolan has heralded a number of murders of women at the hands of their exes in his native Australia as portents of a new age of antifeminist retribution. (Click on screenshots below to see archived versions of these Tweets.)
I’m sure actress Denise Richards was delighted to find the above in her Twitter notifications, sent as a reply to a Tweet of hers wishing her father a happy Father’s Day.
Several feminists who ended up in a discussion with him on Twitter were treated to the following.
As Nolan sees it, the murder of women in Australia and Ireland is now perfectly legal, as he has officially declared war upon both countries.
Nolan thinks politicians and police officers are also legitimate targets in his “war.”
And he assures us this “war” will continue until he is properly compensated for whatever terrible injustices he thinks have been done to him.
Now, Nolan’s “legal” claims are of course ludicrous, and he is obviously in no position to “release” any murderers of women in either Ireland or Australia.
But as bizarre as his arguments are, Nolan is no troll; as longtime readers of this blog know all too well, he’s deadly serious about all of this.
The man who used to call himself Peter-Andrew: Nolan©, but who now prefers to call himself Joschua-Brandon: Boehm©, is a follower of the exceedingly strange and dangerous Sovereign Citizen movement. He thinks the odd punctuation he’s added to his various names actually means something important, and he does indeed believe that he is at war with Ireland and Australia, that murdering women is legal in both countries, and that he has the right to enforce these claims of his as best he can.
Happily, he is not actually in either of these countries — last I heard, he’s in Germany, and as I understand it, he is barred from entering Ireland and possibly Australia as well. At least according to the laws that the rest of the world follows.
This isn’t the first time Nolan has justified or indeed celebrated violence against women. His declarations of “war” are not new. He’s offered some (barely) qualified praise for far-right mass murderer Anders Breivik, and at one point he warned any women thinking of commenting on his laughable Facebook ripoff MAN-BOOK that he just might just kill them for it.
But these recent Tweets are pretty brazen, even by his standards. He is clearly a threat to women, as well as to politicians and government employees regardless of gender.
H/T — @TheFirstPaige
NOTE TO COMMENTERS: Please avoid describing Nolan as “crazy,” or attempting to diagnose his mental health. Mental illness doesn’t cause hate. And please refrain from violent language, even when it is clearly metaphorical.
And, really: “Killing women to get your attention”? What’s wrong with a polite “excuse me, plese”?
*PLEASE, even.
Another word The Colon doesn’t know the meaning of: war. Also, “enemy”. Who died and gave this fucker the authority to declare “war” upon an entire gender?
Germany can have him. I hope they keep him. I wonder how outspoken he’d be if someone could kill women and implicate him in the process. I can’t decide if he’d turn tail and run or if he’s just crazy enough to own his culpability in the crime.
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I can’t even words right now. Also:
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You never heard of the #KillAllWhiteMen campaign? This tool has done the same thing, just flipped it on women. Notice the hysteria and rage, but notice the defense of the #KillAllWhiteMen campaign?
It shows clear sexism, in a movement that is supposedly about equality. it shows a clear gender bias and gender hatred… It’s irony at it’s best
Huh?
Mad Cow:
But the feminist division of opinion on Solanas was over whether to support her as a woman and fellow activist after her attempted murder of Warhol, not over whether to follow her manifesto. There were never any feminists seriously plotting to kill all men and institute a robot-butler-driven female utopia, as awesome as that might have been.
I personally think the SCUM Manifesto is funny, but I don’t take it seriously as a blueprint for society. Yes, there was a lot of experimental radicalism floating around in the 60s and 70s, but your concept of the SCUM Manifesto as a major feminist document is completely off. Solanas was almost unknown until the Warhol shooting, and the SCUM Manifesto wasn’t widely read until it got reprinted in a feminist anthology some years later. I do think it reflects some of the emotion of the time, but not ideas people were seriously considering.
Incidentally, while fact-checking my posts, I noticed that all your information seems to come from Wikipedia. The only line from the Scum Manifesto that you quoted here is also the only line quoted in its Wikipedia entry, and your quote from Ti-Grace Atkinson is also from Wikipedia. (I was curious why you chose it, as it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with your argument.) It’s a bit rich to accuse other people of being ignorant if you can’t even be bothered to look outside Wikipedia for information.
It is so sad to see in our day and age such hate built up in people and the excuses they use to act on it.I can only hope the man is unattached and has no children to pass this hate onto, although there are more men out there willing to follow his particular brand of hatred. Women are just as worthy as men are in every way and deserve every right they have and can get. Females evolved along side of males; in fact, without females, the male race would have died out eons ago. We are all equally important in this life and this man and his cronies need to realize this.
I suffer from mental illness. I have an appointment for rediagnosis on Friday to see if I am in fact bi-polar rather than Unipolar. I have never hurt anyone else, but I do have razor scars
Really?! Does this misogynistic, cowardly arsewhipe really have to use my initials for his twitter account? I don’t want anything in common with that low life. He is such a bastard. I am 100% sure he believes EVERY single word of that hate speech. That blatant incitement there. And how dare he blame those women for being murdered by their abusive husbands!! Excuse me while I vomit. THAT is disgusting. No Colon, these women are not to blame, these men are. Trying to flee an obviously dangerously abusive situation is a woman’s right, not a criminal offense punishable by death. Women are people and people have the right to be treated with respect and to not have the shit beaten out of them simply for being women. Also, haven’t you heard, people have DIED. Precisely how soulless are you? I hope the German authorities are on to you.
“Can we just start getting bans on ableism after the third comment that doubles down?
All in favour, raise your virtual hand.”
That is an awesome idea!! I am so sick of this ableist shit.
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It’s for THIS EXACT REASON that Law Enforcement in every nation needs to treat Twitter threats as real crimes. This Colon sounds like a very real danger to women, and everyone would be safer if he were in some kind of custody.
I don’t think we should be giving these threat-making lone-gunman-wannabes any benefit of the doubt.
Also raising my hand on the proposed ban on ableism after the third double-down. It’s not hard to read the blog rules, and also not hard to pause and reflect after someone explicitly asks you to stop using certain words.
@Candace – there’s a huuuge difference between #KillAllWhiteMen – a gallows-humour subversion of racialised misogynist violence that is currently oppressing all women and PoC… and Some Guy with a totally self-manufactured Grievance threatening to take it out on specific targets, justifying why it would be totally acceptable and consequence-free, and backing it up with further blog posts on the subject.
Like, nobody expects to be able to KillAllWhiteMen so it becomes a joke, an expression of frustration; but this Colon seems to think he could murder a whole bunch of women and get away with it/ have all his demands met.
That’s not a joke, that’s terrorism.
“Can we just start getting bans on ableism after the third comment that doubles down?
All in favour, raise your virtual hand.”
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@spindrift – access denied on your photo
Here’s a fun comment that was lost in the shuffle
ian martinez | July 7, 2015 at 9:48 pm
Whatever feminist hatemongering you write, MRAs are not going away, we are growing and pushing back feminist hate now, men and women.
Not sure if I get a vote about the ban on ableism after the third comment and I’m conflicted about it. Certainly understand the frustration, would vote for the ban, and…as a newcomer to the site, I learned a lot in the discussion.
Would it be possible to say, link to a thread like this in the FAQs about ableism so that people who are just ignorant can learn?
It also seems to me that someone can just log in with another account, take another 3 shots at it, then, log in with another account, take another three shots at it, repeat until bored. Got a troll on my favorite sports messageboard who has had 100’s of identities over last few years. He’s got a program that masks his IP address, only thing to do is to ban him as soon as he appears. If someone is determined to derail, they will.
Sorry, my mobile keyboard was bugging out and I guess I managed to hit “Post Comment” while I was struggling with it.
I was just going to comment on the irony of leaving a message about “feminist hate” on a post about an MRA advocating the murder of women.
@berdache (is it cool to shorten your name?) I don’t think anybody would mind that you’re voicing your opinion :).
There are a number of links in the welcome package in the ableism section that you and others are welcome to check out.
I have never understood this argument, which seems to boil down to “if we have x rule, people will break x rule, and so we might as well not have x rule in the first place.” This is true of all rules, isn’t it? So should we have no rules at all, and if not, why should this specific one be skipped?
Berdache: I’m generally on the less banny side of things, but we already have a detailed discussion of ableism in the Welcome Package. For that matter, a lot of the threads ableist trolls pop into already contain prior explanations of ableism. For that matter, as seen here, people usually explain it to said trolls patiently and repeatedly to no avail.
In our experience, as much as we wish it would, simply making an explanation of our policy clearly available won’t make people knock it off, hence the desire for a ban.
Not funny, dude. Type ”Paul Elam” in the search bar on the right and read some of the things David has reported on scumstain Elam. That man is an abuser, through and through.
I’d think Solanas’s complex personality and her obsession with being noticed were bigger factors than any imaginary ”misandry” (which, by the way, is still a non-issue). A central reason for the shooting was Warhol’s continued refusal to read Solanas’s script. This was, as I think no one denies, an unacceptable violent action, but it was not a tip of any iceberg. Feminism has been, as was pointed out before, one of the most peaceful movements in history, despite the violent opposition by reactionary assholes like the MRAs.
And that’s all there is, literally. Feminism was born from the desire to challenge the patriarchal status quo and to get women the same rights to vote and own property, the right to bodily autonomy, equal pay, etc, things that men always held for granted. Some of these have been accomplished, others have not, but that is why feminism is still needed today. One of the main issues facing feminism today is how to change perceptions of traditional gender roles. This is something that helps men, too! Feminism was never about attacking men as a group, only privilege.
The MRM, on the other hand, has none of these things to combat. The MRM was always about attacking those ”uppity” women. Feminism was born as a reaction against an unjust society by a less privileged group, the MRM was born as an angry reaction to the loss of privilege sensed by a more privileged group. They are nowhere near the same.
Oh, wow. And I’m comparable to Superman because I know how to move in a threedimensional space. Seriously, this is the most ridiculous non sequitur I’ve seen in a while.
As for your ignorance regarding the civil rights movement…
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I don’t see any ”defending Solanas because she’s a woman” going on. But you seem to be under the impression that we either have to agree with Solanas or accept the phony belief that misandry is a thing in society. This is a false dichotomy and you know it.
Personally, from my very privileged place, I’m a rather hardcore pacifist and do not advocate for violence towards anyone, with the exception of self-defense. I realize that members of oppressed groups often have no choice, and I support them over hand-wringing concern trolling any day of the week, despite my personal stance. HOWEVER, just because I disagree with Solanas’s actions doesn’t mean I believe misandry is real, or that feminism is uniformly violent or has ever had big issues with violent members.
If the thread hadn’t been hijacked by ableist douchenozzles, you’d have seen our discussion on that what Nolan is doing is the same old, same old ”older men tell young, impressionable men that violence against another group is acceptable, even desired, and feign to be shocked when some violent individual takes action”. This is so different from the over-the-top SCUM manifesto that it’s not even funny. Seriously, have you read Solanas’s manifesto? It’s hilarious! Of course, there was actual frustration and disillusionment regarding the patriarchy that spawned those words, but how is anyone supposed to take that seriously?
No, no, a thousand times no. Misogynist men like the MRAs are more eager to take violent action. Are you really trying to deny the reality that the majority of all violence is perpetuated by men, especially by the type that thinks “feminism has gone too far?” Precisely because men are taught that reacting violently over perceived slights is a-okay?
You cannot enter a gender discourse without realizing that the playing field is not level. A feminist writing over-the-top violent fantasies and shooting a man for selfish reasons does not make up for centuries, even millenia of mostly one-sided, gender-based violence.
She’s right, you know. The MRM is a movement about as much as I’m catholic. I have some rudimentary understanding of the rites, the sacraments and the beliefs, mostly as shaped by popular culture, but I do not practice it, preach it or believe in any value it could have on my personal life, and I do, in fact, oppose the very idea, to some degree at least.
The difference being, I don’t shame people who care about catholicism, as many MRAs like to use ”social justice warrior” as an insult, apparently forgetting that they should consider themselves ones as well.
I’m going to make a pause here, and rant some more.
Solanas continues to be an exceptional character in feminist discourse because there has literally been no one else like her. As Shaenon (amongst others) pointed out, there was never a serious debate about following her manifesto, as you claim, only a disagreement over whether to support her or not. There is a middle ground between defending a person and committing genocide, you know.
The MRM is all about provocative (at best) and violent (par for the course) rhetoric. They cry satire every time their violent thoughts are caught by outsiders, but we are still waiting for that magical ”moderate MRA” who cares about actual human rights and not just their hate-boner. It is rather telling that most organizations that actually do something about men in need routinely distance themselves from the MRM.
Feminism is for human rights. As the MRM was born as an opposed reaction to the social progress made by feminism and not from a desire to change society in a more equal direction, the MRM cannot, by its very nature, be for human rights. Their main focus is battling feminism, not making a difference in the lives of the unfortunate. Such a ”movement” does not deserve consideration.
There are a lot of problems facing even white heterosexual cis men in our society, but they are largely due to capitalism and toxic masculinity, both of which are patriarchal constructs that cause much bigger problems to other groups anyway. We cannot combat those problems without acknowledging the reality of patriarchal beliefs. In other words, we can’t change society without feminism, but things will be easier once all MRA-minded shitgolems are gone.
Okay, done for now. I have other things to take care of at the moment. Thankfully, the wonderful and talented Shaenon has been busy while I’ve been offline.
@Lea
Yes, please. I know the bullshit The Mad Cow has been pulling isn’t much more interesting, but at least it’s somewhat relevant to the topic at hand. I’m fed up with the ableism as well, and I’ve only really been back commenting here starting, like, yesterday.
@ian martinez
That’s cute, dear. Now run along and play, daddy will have to start making dinner.
@myself
Or MLK, even. What was that about ”painfully white”?
@viViscaria,
re: my opinion: You may not have seen my first post. Still embarrassed by it.
Yeah looked through the FAQs, forgot about the welcome package.
My objection to banning someone after their 3rd double down was that it puts additional strain on the mods, who have quite a lot to do already. It’s a thankless job and I wouldn’t want it to be any harder.
But, after re-reading the FAQs, someone who doubles down 3 times qualifies for a ban under the rules anyway. It’s not adding to his job so much as clarifying the rules. Plus the ability to moderate all first comments prevents much of the trolling I was thinking of.
So, I withdraw my objections to the plan and endorse it wholeheartedly. Think that a 3 strike rule is a good rule of thumb for all trolls.
For the subject matter discussed in this site, think the place is amazingly well moderated. I think David does a really good job of balancing between letting people talk things out and shutting down trolls. Part of that is David and part of that is the regular posters keeping things in check.
No…Irony at ITS best (no apostrophe) is you failing to get a Twitter joke (NOT a “campaign”. A JOKE, dear). And defending this turd, albeit backhandedly, by referencing that.
Also: WHAT “defense”? Nobody here has even referenced that joke except you.
Could you possibly do the patriarchy’s work for it a bit better?
@Anarchonist:
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Cry moar, emo kid.