The trouble with Facebook is that it lets just anyone use it. It should be just for men. It should be…Manbook!
But that’s ok, he’s way ahead of me, whatever his name is (he has several).
The founder of a men’s only social media site modeled on Facebook issued a warning this week threatening the lives of women who attempt to sign up.
The creator of ‘Manbook,’ identified as Joschua Boehm — but who also uses the names Peter Nolan, Peter-Andrew: Nolan, and Joschua-Brandon: Boehm — wrote on his newly-launched site, “We would ask you women to respect our rights as you wish your rights to be respected. If you are unwilling to respect our right to freedom of association do not expect men to respect your right to life. Ok?”
“Ok”? Ok men can kill women who try to sign up to “Manbook”? No, not ok. Strange question.
Boehm, under the Peter Nolan name, also maintains a YouTube channel dedicated to videos of his own speeches urging lawmakers to change laws he feels are unfair to men, as well as uploaded videos of men ranting about women they believe have done them wrong.
Imagine my astonishment.
That punctuation… I’m guessing he’s also a sovereign citizen.
A challenge, but I’ll try. It’s only January 1; rest of the year, no make that time, to do it.
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Holy crap. The very first comment was fairly tame criticism and he goes and posts the commenter’s IP address and e-mail in response while referring to him as a “man hater”. And we’re the ones who react to everything with emotion?
Then there’s “Women are pathological liars…” But I’m sure the usual suspects will argue that’s not misogyny somehow.
Also holy crap – “a-man-zon.com”?!?!?!?
As a man, I object to his naming the site Manbook. If he wishes to call it Maleasshat, then I would have no objections.
A wee bit of false equivalence there, Mr many names. Someone’s “right to freedom of association” is not actually equivalent to someone’s “right to life”.
I did a bit of Googling, Blake, and seems you’re right. He also does the “strawman name” and “calling” (ie., name) thing that goes with sovereign citizen types, and I see that even some in the MRA/MRM movements call him a nutcase (BTW, he apparently thinks he can sue anyone who uses his name without getting his permission: “Any woman or mangina lackey who uses my name, my calling or my image without my written consent signed in red ink by my hand only is violating my copyright.”). He’s an ex-Australian who moved to Germany after a divorce.
Few should be surprised that that well-known curator of male supremacist bizarrerie, David Futrelle, has written quite a number of articles about Joschua-Brandon: Boehm, back when he was calling himself Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c). He is a very, very nasty piece of work.
A name isn’t copyrighted. Also he have to show that the use doesn’t fall under fair use.
But, Al, you’re thinking of the law followed by sheeple, not Sovereign Citizen Law, which is pretty much “The law is whatever I claim the law to be at this moment.” I’m sure he has some ridiculous explanation for how his name is copyrighted, including why permission has to be in red ink, while simultaneously refusing to recognise anyone else’s copyrights.
I suspect sooner or later he’ll be in a place where he can work on Jailbook, a social media service for the incarcerated. Hopefully it won’t be because of some act of violence.
What the Jesus.
If there is any group more ridiculously self-deluded than YECs, it has to be the Freemen/Sovereign Citizen movement. The standard errors of YECism are at least comprehensible: moon dust, isotope dating flaws, etc — all dead simple compared to these baroque pseudo-legal rationalizations about “straw-persons” and the Magical Power of names, ink colour, etc. Of course the two groups do intersect at times (the Hovind family). Boehm sounds like his Crank Magnetism is intersecting with the MRA side of things.
My wish for 2015 is that the feminist blogosphere would take some interest in what happens to these guys, these mancavers, mra’s, Dawkinses . Why, how, do they become antagonistic to women while others do not? Are there ways to turn them around?
Are there experiences, turning points, decision points that set them on a path of misogyny?
My new years resolution is to monitor some of the women fearing sites, listen and maybe engage in a friendly manner, try to figure out what is going on with some of them. Is it such a mystery that it can’t be understood?
I would appreciate any links to sites that attempt to figure out how guys become infected with misogyny.
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What, for your popcorn-munching?
(Is not B&W within the feminist blogosphere?)