Paul Elam

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Elam, meanwhile, has [[hypocrisy|shown zero concern]] over the fact that his site targets only one gender or that doxxing innocent people has (or could potentially have) real-world consequences like harassment and stalking. In fact, he has stated that the site could feature a listee's "name, address, phone number … even her routes to and from work," though to date he has not gone so far as publishing addresses and phone numbers.<ref name="goldwag" /> He once offered a cash reward to whoever was able to discover the real name of an anonymous feminist blogger.<ref name="goldwag" />
 
Elam, meanwhile, has [[hypocrisy|shown zero concern]] over the fact that his site targets only one gender or that doxxing innocent people has (or could potentially have) real-world consequences like harassment and stalking. In fact, he has stated that the site could feature a listee's "name, address, phone number … even her routes to and from work," though to date he has not gone so far as publishing addresses and phone numbers.<ref name="goldwag" /> He once offered a cash reward to whoever was able to discover the real name of an anonymous feminist blogger.<ref name="goldwag" />
 
He has stated that he would vote to acquit in the event he were called to serve on the jury in a [[rape]] trial [[Jury nullification|even if he knew for a fact that the accused were guilty]].<ref>Jaclyn Friedman, "[http://prospect.org/article/good-mens-rights-movement-hard-find A Good Men’s Rights Movement Is Hard to Find]", ''The American Prospect</ref>
 
  
 
==Pocketing donations==
 
==Pocketing donations==

Revision as of 05:49, 9 June 2014

Paul Elam is a men's rights activist who founded and runs what is more or less the men's rights movement's flagship website, A Voice for Men. In many respects, he could be considered the unofficial leader of said movement, if not for the infighting between him and other manosphere mullahs such as W. F. Price (The Spearhead) and Daryush Valizadeh (Return of Kings).

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Register-Her.com

In 2011, Elam established the site Register-Her.com, which publishes the personal information of women the site claims "have caused significant harm to innocent individuals either by the direct action of crimes like rape, assault, child molestation and murder, or by the false accusation of crimes against others."[1] While the list includes women who have been sent to prison for various crimes, it also includes others who were acquitted, and some who have not been accused of committing any crime.[1] It also lists any rape victim whose court case results in anything but a full conviction and sentencing as a "false accuser"[2].

The site's real purpose is for documenting what it terms "anti-male bigotry," which, in essence, means being female and daring to express an opinion with which men's rights activists disagree.[1] These are the posts that are cross-referenced in the sidebars and banners of A Voice For Men, with an image of a bloody knife as its logo and the slogan "TRUTH is the real bitch"[2]. The point behind listing the registered criminals (which include female offenders who have been executed,[3] as well as female offenders currently serving life sentences[4]) is to conflate real crimes with displeasing the MRA hivemind.

One alleged "bigot" singled out by Elam on the site was a mommy blogger who wrote about her discomfort with having adult men help her young daughters use the bathroom at their preschool.[1] After she was attacked on men's rights sites, the blogger took down her post, apologizing for her "demonization of men."[1] However, this mea culpa failed to pacify Elam, who maintained, "You targeted fathers, and just fathers. It strikes me that you have never really been held to account for any of your actions in life. It is quite likely that the concept of complete, selfless accountability is just completely foreign to you."[1]

Elam, meanwhile, has shown zero concern over the fact that his site targets only one gender or that doxxing innocent people has (or could potentially have) real-world consequences like harassment and stalking. In fact, he has stated that the site could feature a listee's "name, address, phone number … even her routes to and from work," though to date he has not gone so far as publishing addresses and phone numbers.[1] He once offered a cash reward to whoever was able to discover the real name of an anonymous feminist blogger.[1]

Pocketing donations

Elam admitted after the fact to using an unspecified amount of money donated to run A Voice for Men to cover his own personal living expenses.[5] He did not disclose his intention to use some of the money for this purpose to potential donors in advance, only stating that it would go toward "dedicated servers, image royalties, legal fees, internet radio premiums, various kinds of computer and media hardware," and travel expenses for AVfM-related public appearances.[5] None of this comes as much of a surprise since like the vast majority of men's rights "activism", A Voice for Men does basically nothing with concrete real-world civil rights results such as protests, lobbying politicians, buying ad-time on television, or charity work for disadvantaged men.[6]

Also, showing what a great guy he is, he has actually banned people during fundraising events for donating some but not "enough" and once bragged about men in financial trouble giving donations out of their unemployment checks.[5]

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