In yet another stunning victory for their cause, Men’s Rights Activists have successfully infiltrated the comments of yet another article critical of them, leading possibly dozens of comment readers to mutter to themselves “Jesus Christ these guys again, honestly do they do anything else besides post this crap?”
This time, the target of the Men’s Rights raiders was an article on the website of GQ’s British Edition with the self-explanatory title “Men’s Rights Activists are cave dwelling idiots.”
Naturally, the comments from the MRA invaders tended to rather prove the author’s point, with regard to cave-dwelling idiocy.
There were accusations of gender treason:
Bog-standard predictions of feminism’s impending demise:
Unique takes on women’s history:
Tampon jokes:
“Retard” used as an insult:
Awkward turkey-related metaphors:
And of course, Paul Elam:
I should note that GQ seems to be moderating the comments fairly strictly; several I was intending to quote vanished before I grabbed a screenshot. I can only imagine what the rest of the moderated comments look like.
I should also note that Mr. Elam was so offended by the GQ article that he went and made a video about it.
In it the angry Elam, occasionally sounding like one of the storytellers on Drunk History, denounces the article as “lickspittle journalism,” describes its author, Rupert Myers, as looking “kinda like Alfred E. Neuman with liver disease,” defends the infamous AVFM article in which he referred to Bill Cosby’s accusers as “a bunch of drug whoring star [expletive deleted]” and makes the preposterous charge that it is Myers who is the true misogynist for criticizing his Cosby article because this means that Myers thinks that, as Elam puts it,
talking honestly about the reality of drug whoring star [expletive deleted]s is hostile to all women.
You may have to run that through your head a few times until it makes any kind of sense, because it really doesn’t.
Elam then declares Myers to be a “misogynist little [expletive deleted].“
WINNING!
H/T — @idlediletante
RE: Weather
We’re expecting 4-8 inches of snow around where I live in California tonight or tomorrow.
Which is great.
Really.
Ecstatic.
Lanky Yankee (or other Aussies),
I have what is perhaps a silly question. I’ve been watching Australia’s Next Top Model on YouTube. Everyone seems to mock the Gold Coast. Why is that? It kind of sounds like it’s the Florida of Australia. Is that about right?
Bailey never seems to get that stinky dog smell. She only needs to be bathed occasionally. I think I’ve lucked with her being the first dog I’ve lived with. She’s very smart and well behaved in addition to not being stinky.
Erm, it’s a fairly well-known fact.
Source; it’s about halfway down.
It always throws me off when people call him “Mr. Elam”. It sounds way too formal for a dude who sits around in his underwear yelling at people on Twitter all day. Can we call him “Dr. Elam” just for fun though?
@WWTH
It’s a lot like Florida in terms of the weather and the wall-to-wall theme parks, but there’s no equivalent to Florida Man or anything like that. I wasn’t even aware that people mock it. If I had to guess, is Next Top Model set/based in Sydney (I don’t watch reality shows)? If so, then it’s probably just QLD and NSW’s friendly rivalry talking. Or shit-talking, I suppose. =P
@Styne: you’re assuming Elam had any credit to begin with.
SFHC,
It is in Sydney. So I guess that’s it.
As long as we’re veering way off topic to this post, can I just say fuck anti vaxxers and may they forever get Legos trapped in their shoes? My friend’s toddler son has whopping cough.
ETA: To clarify, it’s not my friend who is the anti vaxxer. Either he hasn’t finished getting the vaccinations or they didn’t work or something.
I spend a lot of time marveling over my dog’s wonderfully soft and silky ears, though she’s a mature dog in age now, they still have that new puppy ear smell. She knows all of one trick that she performs for me on command (or maybe on demand is a better term?) – I say “show me your boobies” and she instantly flops onto her back. It’s the best trick ever, even if my dog won’t do the regular stuff like sit, stay, stop trying to bite the face off other dogs who get too close to me, quit rolling in dead things and poop…oh! She uses a litter box/tray to potty if it’s late at night or I’m away from home all day.
I made her wear her reindeer suit, antler hat-thingy and little hoof booties for her feet for pictures again this year – it’s Christmastime after all, and neither I or my dog were able to ferret out what the s/o has wrapped up to give her tomorrow night! If he knows what’s good for him, he’ll have some sort of rawhide chewy thing in there for her – no chewy thing, no peace! 😉
Okay, hope this doesn’t raise a red flag. The barrow I generally find myself pushing is that nothing weakens a cause/movement/lesson like hypocrisy.
Try this exercise – forget the guy’s debatable position and consider only his delivery/appearance. Now, imagine he’s female, all the female comments are male and all the male comments are female. Then it appears, just a tad, like a lot of people are calling him hysterical, stupid, ugly and insane. Like the douche bags do to women online and are rightly called out on.
Forgive me if this is intended more as a water cooler chatroom for people all of a similar mind. In that case, go for it. If you’re looking for converts, maybe not helpful.
@dhag85
I’m game. It’s just our way of honoring his accomplishments.
I’m stunned that you haven’t been wearing gloves for months now in Sweden.
@Kat
Um. I don’t go out much. :p
Seriously though, very mild winters lately.
@Nicholas Mann
Yeah, let’s ignore all of world history and all relevant context! Or not.
Nicholas Mann:
Perhaps you can point us to such a discussion? Where feminists are calling a man hysterical, stupid, ugly, insane?
Just a note; if something “appears” to be a particular way to you, that’s just your interpretation. It appears to me that you are trolling a bit.
And if you knew anything at all about this group of people, it’s that they would never use the word, insane.
“Can we call him “Dr. Elam” just for fun though?”
You could, but the joke would be on you, because Paul could be referred to as a doctor. He was at one point an extremely well-respected therapist.
*Looks up to the top of the page*
Yep! Still there
I bolded the relevant part.
Anyway. It turns out my friend’s boy only maybe has whooping cough. The test takes a long time so they’re treating him just in case. There’s a pertussis epidemic in the area. But there’s also a nasty flu or some other type of bug going around too. Pretty much everyone I know is or was sick.
And continuing the dog talk because yay furry animals, I’m teaching Bailey to roll over. She knows a bunch of commands but for some reason never learned that one. I started yesterday by commanding her to lie down and then nudging her on her back by saying roll over while giving belly rubs and then rewarding her with a piece of popcorn. Today, I got her to roll over on the first try without even having to nudge her. But the piece of popcorn, the belly rubs, and the excessive praise about smart she is must have gotten riled up because the next two times when I commanded her to roll over she would get up and jump on me instead and I had to nudge her again.
I still think she’s doing a great job and is very smart though!
Sorry if that was a teal deer. I’m just finding it fun to train her. Maybe I’ll try fetch next. She’ll catch her ball, but she won’t bring it back on command.
It’s in the fifties (the temperature, not the decade) here in Chicago, and intermittently rainy. It’s going to be a wet Christmas.
Nicholas, people here aren’t really saying that Elam is ugly. If he seems “off” to people that, I think, is because his facial expressions betray him as the angry fanatic that he is. Watch the video I linked to in this post, for example. He stares ahead with cold anger in his eyes; he even snarls a few times. He pings people’s self-protection radars for good reason.
Woody, is that you?
Shut up, Styne!
He was a therapist, but I’m going to need evidence that he was “extremely well-respected.” What do you mean by that? Did he publish widely-cited articles? Was he frequently asked to speak at professional conferences? Did he receive awards or honors from a professional organization?
Remember: Extreme. Your word.
http://www.smhmeanswhat.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/beyonce-shaking-head-and-saying-nope.gif
He was a drug counsellor. Not a doctor. I don’t know about well respected either.
Well-respected? Yeah, in exactly the same way Katie Hopkins is. /rollseyes
Well, he counseled addicts. He’s not a doctor of anything, nor I have I seen any evidence that he was ever well-respected as a drug counselor. I don’t know if you know this, but it’s actually illegal for therapists to claim that they are doctors when they aren’t.
WWTH, may I call you Dr. Ninja?
Orion, since I can’t also call you Dr. Ninja, can I call you, er, Commander Posted Something Before I Did?
@Styne
Just because you say you were a therapist doesn’t mean you’re actually a “Dr.”. Do you actually believe this stuff, or are you just saying random things?
Shorter Nicholas Mann: “I’m about to say something very stupid but you’re not allowed to criticize me, okay?”
Not raining here in Adelaide. 38C predicted for today. 37 tomorrow. (38C = 100 in old money.)
Rain expected tomorrow afternoon. Basically it means it will be hellish hot -and- windy as the change in weather approaches, so all the CFS fire crews will be scoffing down their Xmas lunch with one ear on the radio.
And they won’t be able to have a beer because they need to be clear-headed if there’s a fire in their area.