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    We Hunted the Mammoth

    wehuntedthemammoth.com · Publication · on HN since 2014

    We Hunted the Mammoth is a blog tracking and criticizing the men's rights movement and online misogyny.

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    HN commenters link it for critical coverage of men's rights figures such as Paul Elam and Scott Adams, and sexism in tech.

    Stats for nerds
    16HN people shared it
    8linked in comments
    40story points
    Oct 2023last shared
    2014people per year2023

    Top posts on HN

    1. 1
      Any woman in tech could be feminist honey trap, open source guru warns
      1 person · 21 points · first shared 2015 · 6 comments on HN
    2. 2
      A retro gaming champion harassed women for years. Then killed his ex-girlfriend
      1 person · 5 points · first shared 2020 · Discussion on HN
    3. 3
      Misogynistic gamebros drove these two women out of gaming
      1 person · 4 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
    4. 4
      Reddit’s plan to “contain” hate so ass-backwards bigots beg to be “contained”
      1 person · 3 points · first shared 2015 · Discussion on HN
    5. 5
      Yet another woman in gaming has been driven from her home by death threats
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
    6. 6
      Why are the internet’s worst people so obsessed with the word “cuck?”
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2016 · Discussion on HN
    7. 7
      The QAnon snowball gets bigger: A visit to the GreatAwakening subreddit
      1 person · 2 points · first shared 2018 · Discussion on HN
    8. 8
      What to do if your date brings up Bitcoin: A guide for ladies
      1 person · 1 points · first shared 2019 · Discussion on HN
    9. 9
      Homepage
      2 people · first shared 2014
    10. 10
      Paul elam of a voice for men in his own words
      2 people · first shared 2014

    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • pjc50Oct 2014

      There absolutely is organised harrasment, it's organised on an IRC channel: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/09/08/zoe-quinns-screenshots-of-4chans-dirty-tricks-were-just-the-appetizer-heres-the-first-course-of-the-dinner-directly-from-the-irc-log/comment-page-5/

      The well is not only poisoned by its originators but entirely made from poison. The whole original premise about corruption of games journalism is absurd; if that's what they were going after, it would look entirely different, because it's mostly a big-business phenomenon rather than an indie phenomenon.

      Edit: no, you can't "no true Scotsman" your way out of this one. The movement is entirely mis-targeted by ignoring the big publishers. They also claimed the "success" of getting Intel to pull advertising from a site, which just pushes the whole games journalism business closer to an industry press release republishing facade.

      Speaking of Scotsmen, the recent independence debate (which involved "strong emotions" over things that were actually important, unlike gamersgate) was far more civil than this. Tens of thousands of people somehow managed to campaign without death threats.

    • fletomFeb 2015

      The undisputed face of the MRM is Paul Elam who runs the hugely popular "A Voice for Men" website. He is a great example of a bitter misogynist MRA asshole: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2013/10/18/paul-elam-of-a-voice-for-men-in-his-own-words/

      There are lots of good reasons to talk about issues affecting men, but sadly the bad parts of the MRM far outweigh the good at this point. I'd say it's 85% bashing feminism, complaining about women's sexual power (e.g. The Friendzone), denying and minimizing rape as a social problem, etc. and only 15% talking about fathers' custody rights and boys' education issues.

    • wpietriJun 2014

      Exactly. How will wee poor, oppressed male programmers survive as only 80 or 90% of the field?

      For those wondering about the weird "betafication" thing, I recommend reading this fine blog: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/

      It's a trope of the self-anointed "men's rights" crowd, from people who are in a continual hysteria about how society is stopping them from being proper alpha males. Never quite getting that passive-aggressive anonymous-coward Internet message board comments are not how chimpanzee males work out their dominance issues.

    • ivancaNov 2014

      No, this is not about some inaccuracies, she many times has declared to have some very extreme perceptions:

      "Not a coincidence it’s always men and boys committing mass shootings. The pattern is connected to ideas of toxic masculinity in our culture."

      Source: http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/10/26/on-friday-anita-sarkeesian-called-out-toxic-masculinity-on-twitter-heres-what-happened-next/

    • fractallyteOct 2023

      https://lithub.com/what-to-make-of-isaac-asimov-sci-fi-giant-and-dirty-old-man/

      https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2020/01/08/isaac-asimov-prolific-author-even-more-prolific-sexual-assaulter/

      https://daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empire-asimovs-wall/

      ...and those are just the first few that came up on Google. I'm too sad to look for more... :-(

    • jarcaneJan 2016

      Don't forget this gem from November: http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/11/21/scott-adams-we-live-in-a-matriarchy-because-men-have-to-get-permission-for-sex/

      Or his insane defense of rapists and harassers: http://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2011/06/16/scott-adams-male-chauvinist-peg/

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