So it’s been a while since I checked in on the heroic Twitter activism of the legendary Men’s Rights Twitter Activist Dean Esmay, formerly the Number Two at A Voice for Men, currently either the “Online Activism Director” or the “online outreach director” for the National Coalition For Men — the first according to him, the second according to the NCFM.
In any case, Mr. Esmay is actively outreaching on Twitter like it’s going out of style.
Let’s look at some recent examples of this outreachy activism, shall we?
Not that long after accepting his prestigious position — or positions — at NCFM, he offered these thoughts on the delicate subject of murdering judges.
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/657513425212428288
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/657515697942216704
Huh. What other topics, you may wonder, has Mr. Esmay been addressing recently? Well, how about the issue of women in science?
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/679301307002445825
As it turns out, Mr. Esmay has quite a few opinions about feminism and feminists.
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/657555407120891904
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/672751870432182272
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/647477856315031552
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/647476339142983681
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/672752550484013056
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/635284954893656064
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/675058933065732098
But he doesn’t only take on feminists. He has some most interesting thoughts on “feminsits” as well.
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/659268774911156224
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/652137454376370176
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/649229091103608833
Esmay boldly stands up against both “snotty cunts” and “cunty twats.”
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/663334105715617792
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/628955612102172676
And he seems to really hate one poor fellow named “David Futrelle.”
Huh. Turns out he’s actually got a lot more Tweets on the subject of this “Futrelle,” but it might be more appropriate to send them to a lawyer than for me to post them here.
So what issue has Esmay really worked up at the moment? The rapes in Cologne.
I’m sorry, I meant to say the “rape hysteria” in Cologne.
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/685029810523996160
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/685168438835286016
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/686175333628948480
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/686170999621042176
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/687287387148296193
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/686182368521117696
Oh, but looking at his timeline today I see that Esmay has changed his mind. Sort of. What convinced him that there’s more than “hysteria” behind the reports? The sterling reporting of … Breitbart.
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/686638427672936448
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/687311625192214528
Now, we still don’t know exactly what happened in Cologne, and in the other cities in which similar attacks have been reported. And it’s certainly true that racists are actively spreading misinformation and disinformation about the assaults in an attempt to demonize Muslims in general and Muslim refugees in particular.
But it’s one thing to say, hey, don’t believe all of the obvious propaganda put forth by white nationalists and other racist assholes, and another to dismiss what Esmay called the “supposed mass rape attacks” as “classic rape hysteria and no more.”
Again, while there are still a lot of questions that remain unanswered about the attacks, it’s clear that there were multiple sexual assaults in Cologne on New Year’s. Standing up against racist lies is a good thing, Dean, but hysterically crying “rape hysteria” kind of makes you a rape apologist.
But, hey, for what it’s worth, Esmay calls a lot of things “hysteria.”
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/674956543859757056
It’s weird to find myself agreeing with Esmay about anything. No, I don’t agree that concerns about sexual harassment at work are “hysteria.” But I do think that, yes, it might be better if Mr. Esmay were to work someplace where no women would have to encounter him. Or men, for that matter.
I also found myself agreeing with half of what Esmay seems to be saying here. (The second half.)
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/684747720066764801
I think he means that no matter how often AVFM denies that they’ve said violent things, people don’t believe them. (Presumably because they are lying about this.)
But maybe he realizes that AVFM’s endless huffing and puffing about the evils of feminism has accomplished absolutely nothing good for men.
That would be … interesting, huh?
The above are most emphatically not self-righteous threats of violence with only the thinnest, most whisper-light of gossamer veils to cloak them.
Nor are they a poor-pitiful-me incitement to violence for fathers already purple-faced with anger.
No, they are public service announcements.
You’ve seen them in subway stations:
Get checked for diabetes, you stupid twat!
You lying feminist whore, donate blood!
Hey, pathetic feminist bigot: How about joining the PTA!
@Kat
And that is apparently what counts for activism in the MRA playbook. Instead of, you know, actually fighting for legal changes that would rectify any of their complaints, they make vague online threats that they don’t plan on fulfilling themselves.
Isn’t Dean Esmay the one who falsely accused a couple of women of pedophilia and abuse? Or is that another Misognist Rapey A**thug/terrorist I’m confusing him with?
Esmay is a hate-obsessed crackpot.
@ Fruitloopsie:
Their pronouncements of stupidity, bigotry and general assholery really do blur together, don’t they?
You’re on form today, Alan.
I don’t know about Dean never getting office work. There’s ample proof here that he could work for the office of the Department of Redundancy Department Offices.
Hello.
Hmm, being so self-centered-minded appears to me like some kind of obsession. And as this kind of obsession bans any self-awareness and introspection, it is likely to never end. As weirwoodtreehugger says, that is quite an ouroboros. And if we had the loop logic of his rant, that is a double ouroboros, a crossed ouroboros, like the infinite symbol in maths. Seems logic.
On a less pseudo-mystical view, i wonder if he can do anything else than look all day at his own navel.
Have a nice day.
Dean Esmay is a father.
Dean Esmay, bestowing upon us the benefit of his many years’ experience working in STEM. I bet that back when he was a professional HIV denialist, he must have read the abstracts of upwards of four journal articles.
Dean Esmay is probably the manospherian I feel the most genuinely sorry for. He’s very hateful and toxic, of course, but I don’t think he’s in a happy place at all. I really wish he would find a healthier hobby.
Ha EJ, thank you, you’re very kind.
Just more diversionary behaviour. As a general rule, if you see me on Mammoth it means I’m meant to be working. Very busy at the moment. Ironically, I’d be very grateful if I could snatch 4 hours sleep, with or without pancakes.
(It’s perhaps relevant that if you don’t allow an interrogation subject at least 4 hours sleep a day, you’re in war crimes territory. I’m almost at the hallucination stage, but luckily you can catch up with your “sleep deficit”, so I’m hoping for an all day snooze some time in the next few days)
He still seems like a number two to me.
What is a “pack attack”?
@LadySunami- I’d imagine people r/ting w/ snark or responding to him…on a platform explicitly designed to facilitate that.
@David – Why do you keep cherry picking this poor man’s quotes?
I’m sure he’d seem perfectly even keeled and rational if you included the appropriate context.
«cries»
COONNNTEEEEXXXT!
/s
Because feminists are frigid whores who won’t have sex with him.
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/Un5F2vt.gif
Presented without comment.
… wat
@ LadySunami
My guess it’s like wolves ravaging a helpless deer, only change wolves to women and that helpless deer to the helpless, put upon, straight white cis dude. Now that’s a sight I can’t get out of my head!
Esmay sounds like that snot nosed little brat we all knew at school who learned a naughty word and uses it to appear edgy but comes off more like a dipshit with every sentence. Seriously? Is this the best he can do? Yawn. Bored already. Stay boring, Esmay.
Dean Esmay is using the word c*nty? Leave it to an obliviously privileged dude to misuse gay/drag slang.
Oh, don’t worry. Dean, like most manospherians, is fully capable of holding multiple contradicting views so long as they all entail the ability to hate. So soon, he’ll be simultaneously be arguing that the attacks never happened AND that they represent the great threat posed by non-white immigration.
I’m surprised it hasn’t already gone there yet. If it was in the US it certainly would have.
I’m assuming women pack attack is meant to refer to cliques of high school girls who bully people. They of course assume adult women act just like high school girls. The mean girls at that. Never mind that plenty of high school girls are nothing like Regina George, feeemale = evil meanie pants bully.
I thought the premise of the movie was that there is a little Regina George in all of us.
“They’ll reap the whirlwind sown by their mocking & indifference.”
Yah, what he just doesn’t understand is that the “they said I was mad” shibboleth is reserved for smart people, like Morticia and Spock. (And even they can only voice it ironically.) Not only does it make dumb guys sound dumber, it also makes them sound kind of lost, like little kids adrift in the deep woods. It’s time for him to find another line.