Paul Elam weighs in
Oh, and now I see Paul Elam himself has weighed in on my Mens Rights response, in the comments of John the Other's post. With dazzling forensic sleight of hand, he turns the tables on me, revealing me to be the real misogynist.
He. Just. Doesn’t. Get. It. He lives in a self aggrandizing bubble where women are incompetent, childlike victims with no personal agency, and big strong men like himself are ever at their rescue. It’s modern misogyny in its most common form. Goldwag is just too ignorant and grandiose to know it.
"Also," he adds, "the lawyerspeak coming from him is laughable. He represents the SPLC, calls us a hate site in several articles, tweets a Radfem post titled “SPLC Names Men’s Rights Activists as Hate Group,” and then has the lack of integrity to claim that AVfM and other MRA sites have not been put on a hate list by his organization....Goldwag is a lying sack of shit."The SPLC, as a matter of fact, did not formally add any of the groups profiled in the article to the list of 1018 hate groups that it counts as of 2011. Nor did it deny that many of the issues that the Mens Movement cares about--criticism of the family court system, false rape accusations and the like--have legitimacy.What it did do, emphatically and unapologetically, and without any temporizing lawyer speak, was to categorize many of its voices, Elam's the loudest and most obnoxious of all, as singularly hateful and misogynist. Elam's RegisterHer.com was created to terrorize women by publicizing their names and addresses, leaving them open to harrassment and stalking. He said that was his intention when he launched it, vowing to "fuck their shit up."Contrary to what he declared in his open letter to the SPLC's Richard Cohen (talk about lawyer speak!), many of the women in his registry did not make false rape accusations that were proven in a court of law or subsequently recanted. In fact, five of the six offenders featured on AVfM's home page today are simply characterized as "bigots." The sixth, an English MP, is called a "corrupt public official," whose crime is "the breakdown of millions of families, countless suicides, rampant fatherlessness,the wrongful conviction of thousands of men, the burgeoning of the welfare state, the massive growth in government bureaucracy and the unwarranted intrusion into the private lives of millions of people."If Elam finds it so offensive to be called a misogynist, then why does he go to such extravagant lengths to prove that he is?If you enjoyed this post, please go to my Facebook page and "like" it (there is a button that will take you there on the top right hand side of this page). You can also follow me on Twitter. Itanimulli
