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Silencing dissent

In the past, whenever I was told by a feminist that western women were oppressed, I always asked for details. In what particulars are women oppressed? Obviously, they never answered except with attempts to change the topic, hurl abuse, and spin puerile lies.

In fact, a substantial fraction of my writing, and the writing of many other MRAs necessarily focuses on deflating and debunking the torrents of lies propagated by feminists and their enablers.

Long ago, I lost interest in attempting to pursue honest discussion with adherents of a feminist ideology who almost universally demonstrate a contempt for honesty and valid data in their “arguments”.

If a statement leveled against men, or against MRAs is repeatedly demonstrated as factually false, but the statement is repeated repackaged, and re-used in defiance of its falsehood, those who knowingly rely falsehood to buttress their position are not honest actors.

Pointing out such failures of factual veracity is routine for most MRAs, and while sometimes tedious, fact checking a lying opponent is a way to self-check one’s own position. Active MRAs are still a tiny handful of men and women in western culture, and as one of them I am not immune to occasionally feeling like the only sane human in the world. Verifiable falsehoods, routinely cited by opponents of men’s rights serve as a reminder of the pervasive misandry and rapidly eroding civil rights of all westerners ( not just men, thank you ).

Occasionally, your opponents give you a gift, by doing something so obvious or absurd that they betray themselves to you. Last month Mary Kellet, the corrupt assistant district attorney pursuing no-evidence prosecutions to secure VAWA funding for her office tried to silence this website and others with a court order. Public discussion and examination of this incompetent and corrupt prosecutor was apparently too much to bear, so she tried to silence her critics with a gag order. I found this hilarious, and I really, truly hope she tries again. Hi Mary, thanks for visiting the site.

An urge to silence debate or dissent is, by the way, a totalitarian urge. The attempts by Kellet and others to silence discussion and criticism validates arguments made on AVFM regarding the escalation of an emerging police state.

Another such gift was provided by Christine Armstrong, a women’s shelter worker in Alabama. A week ago, Paul Elam wrote about her public accusations against him of various crimes, and her moronic and dishonest suggestion he should be treated by law enforcement as some sort of threat to public safety.

I’m sure I am not the only person who, hearing of this wildly unethical behavior by shelter employee Christine Armstrong thought: “what a scumbag”. However, as personally annoying as these calumnious lies are – seen from a longer viewpoint, they’re implicit expressions of the moral bankruptcy and desperation of the ideological enemies of human rights. If Armstrong or her fellow cockroaches had an argument worthy of being called such, they would field it rather than the puerile lies we are increasingly coming to expect.

They are obviously so intellectually, ethically and strategically bankrupt that their go-to tactic is to repeatedly and incompetently attempt the silencing of men’s rights activists.

What makes this even more interesting is that the failure to shut our friend Paul up is much more than a strategic failure for Armstrong and her ideological comrades – It’s revealing of the insubstantial tissue on which an ideology teeters. The increasingly desperate thrashing of organized feminism’s adherents provides a brightly illuminated radar echo for those of us with an investment in human rights and factual veracity in our arguments.

Also, thank you Christina. Keep trying.

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47 Comments

  1. Tom M

    Feminists = Addicts

    Chivalrists = Enablers

    Female-Worship = Idolatry
    [img]http://avoiceformen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Img_4645.jpg[/img]
    THE CULT OF THE HOLY TRINITY
    of FEMINISM, CHIVALRY & MARXISM:
    WORSHIP SERVICES OPEN 24/7!


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    • Herbal Essence in reply to Tom M

      I’ve also started to refer to Feminism as a Goddess Cult online and in conversation.

      If the shoe fits…


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    • Looks like someone has been fact-checking Paul’s lies as well. Oh the irony of throwing stones in glass houses.

      ————————————————
      Editor’s Note : Since a comment that makes no substantive point on it’s own, but links to an external site is by definition spam, I’ve disabled the link provided by JamiJ – and replaced it with this link: http://avoiceformen.com/mission-and-values/

      The replaced link was to a Paul Elam fan site: [manhood101.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=287]

      M.D.


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      • Manuel Dexter in reply to JamiJ

        As a recent member of the editorial board of AVFM, its come to my attention that elements of the men’s rights community have begun idolizing my freind Mr Paul Elam, setting up fan sites and web pages in honor of him, in what amounts to the online equivalent of shrines of Elam worship. As Paul’s friend, I regard this as unnecesarily inflative of Mr Elam’s already healthy ego, and would like to politely remind Mr Elam’s fans that while a giant on the MRM landscape, Paul is, in actual fact, not a diety. Thank you for your kind attention.


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        • Damn, I was just sitting here getting ready to shoot lightning bolts out of my ass. DAMN!!!

          Really, though, MH101 usually lashes out like this when they don’t feel like they are getting attention. And they are right to feel that way. Check out this snip of their recent alexa “performance.”

          Note the free fall plummet in their once barely mediocre traffic. I think where they are now in rankings is somewhere between the the craigslist page for Mugbucket, Kentucky and paintmyanus.com.

          [img]http://avoiceformen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/101.GIF[/img]


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      • How many of us have up-voted this for Manuel’s note rather than for JamiJ and its duckspeak? (As I did … Oops!)


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  2. Tom M

    Or is it:

    Feminists = Self Worshipers

    Chivalrists = Idolaters


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  3. Eff'd Off

    Hey all.
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    If you think it looks a wee bit spooky, please go here and press on, ta.

    http://act.demandprogress.org/sign/protectip_docs/?ak_proof=1&akid=624.246029.Xdd9bK&akid=627.448921.EKILF6&rd=1&t=1&t=3


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  4. Fidel

    Mary Kellet, a big hello to you !!!

    When the powers that be determine your lack of integrity, and take away your means to earn a living, we will be celebrating, because history will forever show you as a dishonest, vile being …….


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  5. Eagle has landed

    Where are journalists from the main stream media when a sitting US judge tries to put a “gag order” on a group of activists trying to free an innocent man??? One would think this is “real news”.


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  6. Eagle has landed

    How can a man who has eyes sleep at night when he sees a deep rooted perversion has consumed his legal system.


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  7. Eagle has landed

    The “Gender-Raunch community” (others like Mary Kellet) of the North Eastern states “Empower” themselves by perversion of Americas law enforcement and courts. But Don’t worry folks, there coming to a state near you soon.


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    • First and last warning.

      We had another user here before, likely you, that had a tendency to flood the comment, usually pointlessly, with the term “gender-raunch” in order, I suppose, to try to coin the term.

      Everyone is welcome to their obsession, but the comments threads on this site won’t be used that to such a stupid end.

      It is distracting and ultimately dilutes and devalues the comments.

      So don’t even start, or I will ban your IP.

      No offense meant, its just business.


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    • Sorry it’s already here (everywhere) and firmly entrenched in every last prosecutors office across the land already, and fiercely enforced by the feminazis and chivalrists of ALL DV coalitions across the land and spilling into other countries.

      I live at the heart of where all that BS launched in the 90′s. My old high school friend became traitor and “Perpetrator #1 against Justice.” He became county prosecutor and hooked up with the then new state AG (a woman like Kellet) in transforming both state and local prosecutors into feminist dystopian enforcement tools/offices.

      He received a national award from DV/Rape hysteria feminists (and other awards too…) for setting up a model prosecutors office (in the interests of ONLY women, feminists & chivarists) for the rest of the nation’s prosecutor’s offices to follow, and follow they DID!


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  8. After hearing “the police tape” of Ms. Filler in the courtroom, it’s abundantly clear the wrong party is being prosecuted. It should be her, instead of him – the falsely accused. Such an egregious abuse of power as has been committed by Kellett in setting this all up, underscores how little integrity that legal system has. After this debacle, how could anyone ever serve on a jury in Maine and have any confidence that the officers of the court were people of integrity, intent on justice? Maine is clearly a state that witch-hunts innocent men, because of their sex. The legal system in Maine is clearly a gender feminist, hate movement, because if it weren’t, the case against Vladik Filler would never have even been brought to trial.


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    • Do you not think that the tape was used in favor of Mrs. Filler’s anguish? Hysterical women are excused as being so emotionally distraught, that it must be the truth, because she was soooo upset.

      She threatened the police in that tape. She demonstrated violent tendencies/threats deemed unforgivable had she been a man.

      The children were given to Mr. Filler.
      THAT alone … speaks VOLUMES.


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      • That only speaks of “a stroke of luck” to me, given the corrupt system at hand which usually gives abusers the children.


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  9. thehermit

    “An urge to silence debate or dissent is, by the way, a totalitarian urge. ”

    Obviously trying to force a gag order on us was a desperate move. Or she is just stupid. Or both.


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  10. SingleDad

    With the ongoing recession/depression, operators of women only homeless shelters, known as womens shelters, especially since they discriminate against boys from 12-17 are unethical, wasteful, bad investment and an anti-family use of public funds needed to fight real poverty.

    Womens shelters should be closed. We can no longer afford to fund this religeon of hate.


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  11. On the radio, AVFM, Tuesday a pre-recorded statement was played. I believe it was made by the co-host whose name I don’t know (it was not Paul). In it the connection was made between Feminism and Tyranny (or Totalitarianism, virtually the same). It REALLY got me to thinking.

    It is the perfect way to ‘conquer-from-within’ – that may have been said in the clip, I don’t remember. I’d like to get a link to the audio to re-listen. But I have a question for the author of it: If men in general are ‘emasculated’ then who will be the Totalitarians “enforcers”? An Elite Guard, like the Roman Emperors had, or similar? The “U.N. ‘Peacekeepers’”?


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    • The audio is on this page in the column to your right, just right of “CBS”.

      “Enforcers” are paid govt agents, mostly in the form of “law enforcement officers” or police. They love their job, especially the power they wield over other men.

      All a woman has to say is “he hit me” or “he threatened to hit me” and the man is deemed the “primary aggressor” and taken to jail by the “enforcers”…as an example.

      Now that men are working less, contributing to he tax base less, the “enforcers” are being lay’d-off in droves.

      Who then will protect you from evil-doers?
      You better hope a man will, but this is getting less likely each day.


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    • 15 years of academic dominance of “gender-feminism”, has led to the de-facto purging of hetero-males from universities, and the ones that are there, are psychologically castrated, and sit in the back of the class with their mouths shut.
      Society reaps what its universities sow folks. Is the world ready for an “American Gay and women overclass” who harness the capital gains and labor of the un-educated hetero-underclass??


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      • I believe the world is ready to realize that a modern University degree is not even worth using to wrap up a serving of fish & chips; if you’re impressed by a sheepskin, all you’ll hire are sheep.


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      • scot, elvis, Eagle has landed, et al – you need to back off friend.
        Your posts are getting really tedious and a little creepy.

        Try to make a point about something without using your favorite catch phrase OK? We get it already. So stop doing it. And stop doing it at the spearhead too. Thanks.


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        • What were his catch phrases in his last post? I’m curious?

          I got Pauls point earlier, but Im not getting yours…..and whats creepy?


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  12. Keyster

    These women’s shelters DEPEND on propogating hatred and fear of men to keep donations rolling in. They allow homeless women to stay with them to boost the numbers and keep govt funding rolling in. They’re deetering on the brink of extinction and they want to keep their jobs. Where else would they work?

    It’s a racket, but also such a sacred cow that the media won’t dare touch it.

    A James O’Keefe style sting is in order.


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    • Keyster, I have said in other posts that this is BIG business.

      It also gets used as a HUGE platform for more women to be in politics.


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      • If we could get a willing woman to enter one of these places with a hidden camera, posing as a woman needing a place to stay, it’d be pure gold.

        “OK, so are you in an abusive relationship right now?”
        “No, I’m not.”
        “Have you ever been in an abusive relationship before?”
        “How do you mean “abusive”?”
        “Has a man ever hit you before or threatened to hit you?”
        “No, never anything like that. I did have a boyfriend once…”
        “Yes, yes go on…”
        “Well he used to get a little rough with me at times.”
        “Hitting? Did he hit you?”
        “Oh no, just pushed a couple of times.”
        “OK, well that is considered domestic violence under state law. We’ll need you to fill out these forms and a counselor will be right with you.”


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  13. reasonable

    A good way to silence dissent is to point out that it was men who did something when good things are done. All too often people glossed over because it is EXPECTED for men to do good. Regardless of feminist dogma hammered into people for decades, subconsciously people know this maxim. Here is an example.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNe1–idns0

    Notice something? It’s all men saving that fawn.


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    • I saw a video once where a grown man jumped into a freezing cold river covered with ice floes in order to save a dog that, for what anybody knew at the time, didn’t even have an owner.


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  14. Malgender Swing

    One less Slut!!!!!!!

    http://www.slutwalktoronto.com/its-been-grand


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  15. KARMA MRA MGTOW

    [file]http://avoiceformen.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/False rape allegation sticker.pdf[/file]

    I will have 1000 of these bumper stickers by Friday next week!


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  16. KARMA MRA MGTOW

    I just got back from a shopping mall.

    The photo’s say it all.

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