Catfight! Histrionic Men’s Rights gooberhead Paul Elam, apparently hungry for attention, has decided to pick a fight with phony feminist and GamerGate den mother Christina Hoff Sommers.
With traffic for A Voice for Men plummeting, and his YouTube videos receiving only a small fraction of the views racked up by the videos in Sommers’ “Factual Feminist” series, Elam must realize that his moment in the spotlight is passing.
And so he’s doing what he always does when he feels challenged: he’s acting like a dick.
In a video posted yesterday, Elam asks the musical question:
Is Christina Hoff Sommers an advocate for the rights of all human beings, including men, or is she just another crypto-misandric privilege-seeking gender parasite using a different twist on sexual politics to ensure that men’s issues and rights are ignored for the benefit of women.
I have to admit that my mind wandered far afield as I listened to the rest of Elam’s 12-minute monologue, but I’m pretty sure he picked door number two there.
Now, there are plenty of legitimate things to criticize Sommers for. Not only is she an antifeminist who calls herself a feminist; she’s also a craven and disingenuous opportunist who’s recently hitched herself to the roving harassment squad that calls itself GamerGate.
But Elam has decided to attack her for … being too feminist.
Yep. I turns out that Elam is one of the very few carbon-based life forms in this sector of the galaxy to actually believe that Sommers, who’s devoted most of her career to bashing feminists, actually is the feminist she pretends to be. Not the “equity” or “freedom feminist” she positions herself as, mind you, but a devious creature
who delivers the gynocentric message with more subtlety and finesse than her associates on Tumblr.
You can practically see the high-five Elam is giving himself in his own mind each time he spouts one of these bon mots.
So what’s Elam’s beef with Sommers based on?
Well, Sommers first started calling herself a feminist back in the 1970s, which Elam seems to think taints her forever with the Mark of Dworkin.
Her other crimes?
She affects a certain concern about women and children in poverty. No, Elam doesn’t point out that the American Enterprise Institute, the think-tank Sommers works for, helped to provide the intellectual cover for policies that have arguably made things worse for the poor; he’s just mad she doesn’t spend all her time talking about homeless men.
But her biggest crime, in Elam’s eyes, is her advocacy of “chivalry,” which to Elam is roughly equivalent in its odiouness to eating babies or not donating money to him.
In Elam’s mind, feminism is basically a modernized version of chivalry, a giant plot to convince men to treat women like angels and give them stuff. As Elam sees it, Sommers is acting as a kind of double agent, warning women that if they don’t curtail their man-hating ways a teensy bit, men “will stop acting like the pack animals we need them to be.”
I look forward to watching both sides in this catfight lose.
Orion: They brought in several anti-horrible-shit organizations of various stripes to form an advisory(!) council on anti-harassment measures. Sarkeesian does sit on said advisory(!) council, as an ordinary member.
The idea that she heads said council, and/or that it has enforcement powers, is purely birthed from between the ears of her haters.
@Orion:
I heard that too.
In other news, a whole lot of horrible people just (like, in the past few days) flounced from Twitter, among them Adam “I coined the word Gamergate” Baldwin.
I wonder if these events are connected?
PS: I do love the fact that a lot of them tried to go over to Quitter, only to be told to eat a bag of dicks by its management.
@Jesus
U mad, bro? I think u mad.
Since you defend the likes of CHS, it comes as no surprise that your name links to 4chan of all places. Have you, at some point in your life, perhaps identified as a GamerGater? Just a hunch.
@Jesus
http://i.imgur.com/keCL69m.jpg
Given the order the pieces are taking, does this make Dean Esmay more of a feminist than CHS?
http://i.imgur.com/oKyKwFX.gifv
@Jesus, I find your point of view utterly fascinating and I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter. Would you mind expanding on some points for me?
I’m understanding your main idea here: the one person who calls herself a feminist despite going against pretty much all positions that exist in any school of feminism is the real feminist, and every other feminist alive is actually not a feminist, which you can tell because anti-feminists are the arbiters of what is and isn’t feminism (obvs). What I’m wondering is, how do you radically support something? Do you support it while wearing a cool hat?
Super interesting hey could you give us a definition of “cringe-propagating cuck” real quick? Is it a man that is not masculine enough, because he’s undergone the figurative equivalent of another man taking his wife/property? Really feeling the love and support between men in the Men’s Rights Movement.
I’m also really interested in your groundbreaking definition of journalism, that apparently includes blog posts. I’d love to learn more!
Viscaria, I hope I grow up to someday be as sarcastic as you. That was awesome.
A lot of commenters on WHTM in the past have warned that women like CHS would find themselves turned upon one day.
Today I am convinced of their prescience.
Movements based on hatred always implode because they inevitably turn on their own.
@ mortarius
In fairness it was about as prescient as saying that bloke who went around annoying bears would get eaten by a bear.
@EJ, you’re too kind ^_^
@Mortarius, while they annoy the crap out of me (CHS more than most), I always feel kind of bad for the women who try desperately to prove that they’re One Of The Good Ones. Misogynists don’t think that there are any good ones. You can’t make them not hate you that way. You might, at best, convince them to parade you around as a mascot and shield against criticism; and only until the moment you set one foot wrong and confirm that you really are a terrible woman like the rest of us.
On some level I think she’s just doing her job at AEI, which is manufacturing controversies to make it seem like there’s “room for debate” on issues like sexual violence and discrimination when the empirical evidence heavily comes down on the feminist side. MRA’s and FeMRA’s are more about intimidating people into submission.
If I won the lottery I would send Zoe Quinn on a world trip of her choosing. What happened to her was (and is) disgusting. Imagine getting death threats because you had pity sex with a dysfunctional loser ass h0le then dumped him and he reject-rages your entire life. Then I would finance her legal case against said loser. Solidarity.