Glenn's Cult?: Alas

January 2, 2009

Our first award!!!!

We received this award from a wonderful blog Rights4Mothers and we are honored justice4mothers chose us as one of the 5 to receive this great award! This is a great way for us bloggers to visit other great sites and get visitors to our own! Hat’s off to Rights4Mothers, a savvy great blog! And to the scholastic scribe!

So we too shall dish it out in turn:

There are conditions attached to the Award, however. The rules are simple:
1. Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Bloggy Friends.
2. Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author and the name of the blog from whom he/she has received The Award.
3. Each Superior Scribbler must display The Award on his/her blog, and link to this Post, which explains The Award.
4. Each Blogger who wins The Superior Scribbler Award must visit this post and add his/her name to the Mr. Linky List. That way, we’ll be able to keep up-to-date on everyone who receives This Prestigious Honor!
5. Each Superior Scribbler must post these rules on his/her blog.

Now, our choices for our fave five:

1. Womanist Musings - Renee took an extreme amount of flack from all the MRA and FR loonies and for that I raise my glass and toast her. Kudos Renee!!

2. Fathers Rights Movement Naked - This is another site which exposes the Father's Rights movement in all of their glory. Keep writing and sharing!!

3. Alas! A Blog - I am most interested in Ampersand and his thoughts. He nails the FR movement and issues about domestic violence and does it in a classy and tactful way. Please keep it coming A!!!

4. Date And Domestic Violence Victims Anonymous (DADVVA) - I just found this site and must say I am very impressed. I look forward to many a night reading the comments and thoughts on this site.

5. Drum roll!!!!! My last fave is Kansans For Judicial Accountability - This site explores all the wrongs committed by Kansas judges in all courts. Does a great job of keeping these judges in line and hope to see the need for this blog to NOT exist - simply because these judges will start doing the right thing - like protecting victims of domestic violence and child abuse. We can hope right?

December 4, 2008

Power and Control

LINK: Alas, a blog » Blog Archive » Domestic Violence Shelter Targeted by Anti-Feminists: “Some of the vile language and verbal abuse we took on the phone was horrific.”

Fortunately, according to Paige Flink, Glenn vastly exaggerated the effects of his campaign. Unfortunately, contrary to what Glenn Reynolds (and, probably, Glenn Sacks himself) believes, the calls made to The Family Place’s volunteers and donors due to Glenn’s campaign were anything but polite.

Ms. Flink was kind enough to talk to me on the phone. Glenn Sacks declined to make any “on the record” comments to me.

I posted on this blog how this is about power and control (namely Glenn's need for power and control) and I do believe I am correct. The first comment on this post was made at 5:58 AM. Glenn posted his rebuttal on Alas at 9:57 AM and then on "HIS" site shortly after (the first comment to his post was at 12:57PM). He refused to be interviewed by Ampersand, yet he answers on his own terms. This smells suspiciously like Control - ie: Glenn will control whom he speaks to and when he speaks to them. This is one of the major components of domestic violence - power and control. What was Glenn so afraid of in answering a few questions? Is it because he would not be paid for doing so? Or is it because he simply wanted to maintain control over something he feels he started and refuses to relinquish control of this?

This is extremely similar to my banning at his site. My email is now widely released (on this blog and on others) and he has yet to un-ban me. Don't need to be un-banned however. I now have my own forum which is safe for those who disagree with Sacks to come and comment. I also welcome any instances in which you see Sacks or his followers behaving in less than admirable ways. Please visit my contact page and email those to me. I am a full time mom, I work full time and I go to school full time so I am limited on time. I want this blog to remain viable and not fall by the wayside and I have another "victims blog" that needs my attention. I have just had writer's block over there. This blog is easy - that one is slightly more difficult.

WARNING!!!!!!

WARNING!!!!
I must warn all who come to this blog about clicking any links I provide. Unless I state this is a safe website you should take precautions in visiting any site listed as an MRA/FR site. To do so one could open up oneself to being stalked, hunted down, victimized, and even in worst case scenario - assaulted in real life or even killed. The men (and sometimes women) who post on the MRA/FR sites can be dangerous. One nly needs to read the venom spewing from their moouth to see evidence of that. I also post this due to the recent blogs and forums I have discovered over the last few weeks. These will slowly be added to the Cult Wall Of Shame. Please take adequate precaution when visiting these sites.

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Thank you too!!!!

I am now friends on a message board with a wonderful man. And you all thought we hated men :-) We despise abusive controlling men and women. We like men and women who are decent, honest, and caring. I will say no more as I do not want to ruin this. But those who fight this same fight, keep going!!! We are being seen and our message is getting out there.

Thank you. And thank you for the important work that you do. It gets my dander stirred up when little men hide behind a pen or a computer and spew out fear, hate and stuff that they think makes them look like "real men" but in fact exposes them for the big bullies that they really are. My father and mother are both deceased. But my dad treated my mother the way every man should treat his wife. She was the Queen in our home and he doted on her like she was still his sweetheart until the day she died at age 84. Abraham Lincoln once said, "The greatest gift a father can give to his children is to love their mother." So many men are unhappy with their own lives and they blame women. That way they don't have to accept responsibility for their own shortcomings. Sad. Pathetic. Again, thank you for your very good and important work.

And thank you for giving us hope as well - the hope that there are good and decent people out there - both men and women.

My blog, My rules.....

I would like to welcome everyone who has arrived here - no matter the road you traveled. I only have some very simple rules. Please try to keep your comments clean (I am a mom and as such I do not like extreme vulgar language). I despise the "c" word so it will never be published. Otherwise I will be very lax as I want this site to be a release to those of you who have an issue with the MRAs in general and Sacks and his followers in particular.

I must also slide this little disclaimer in here too (just to protect myself from those pesky little creatures called lawyers and those MRAs who would think they will file a lawsuit or something silly like that against me). I am using YOUR WORDS on this site as well as publishing my opinion of those words. Nothing more, nothing less. I am "not" responsible for comments made by others on my site and if MRAs can behave then they might very well be allowed to post here. Like I said, this is intended to be a release for the women who have been attacked on various sites online to have a little comic break from these constant attacks.

I am posting this blog and all of my comments as a naturally born citizen of the United States and am exercising my right to free speech.

I must also caution my followers and posters against posting any identifying information. This is for your own safety, as I foresee this blog quickly becoming a very hated tool against MRAs who abuse and those who assist them. I mus also make one additional rule concerning posting other people's (such as our exes) personal information. I have been through a very nasty divorce and I know how our exes can react. As such I must make it a number one rule, as much pleasure it would give us, against posting any information which could identify our exes. First names (or initials if the name is uncommon) is fine but no last names. This will be enforced on this blog, unlike "other blogs."