I Am An Mra

JessicaKRoy attended the conference and wrote an article in Time Magazine about it http://time.com/2949435/what-i-learned-as-a-woman-at-a-mens-rights-conference/. She pointed out how misogynistic the men were behaving while trying to claim that they weren't, and that women are the ones who behave in a hateful manner. Here is part of what she wrote:

"Still, being surrounded by men who belly-laughed at rape jokes and pinned evil elements of human nature wholesale on women was emotionally taxing at best and self-destructive at worst. Once, during a particularly upsetting segment of the program, I had to excuse myself from the auditorium to seek refuge on the bug-filled bank of Lake St. Clair. I kept wondering why I had volunteered to fly 600 miles to attend the conference alone, to surround myself not just with crass ideological opponents, but with people with violent Internet histories who believed my very existence oppressed them. But to emerge on the other side of this with both my sanity and a worthwhile story, I would have to actually adopt a grain of their advice. I would have to stop feeling like a victim, and in turn cast aside all of the humiliating and unfair and devastating experiences I had collected as a woman.
Online Intimidation
For the most part, the conference tried to display the gentler side of the movement, one that embraces activism for significant men’s issues. Its organizers are aware of the fact that it would tarnish their authority to allow misogyny to overshadow their policy prescriptions to help real problems that affect men.
Days before the event began, Elam published a warning post on A Voice for Men saying that some ideological opponents and members of the media “will be looking for anything they can to hurt us with,” so anyone caught trash-talking women would be ejected from the conference.
For Elam, who once created a website called Register-Her, which encouraged men to name and shame women who supposedly made false rape allegations, shifting to a less polarizing agenda would mean a powerful change of heart. Elam has since shuttered Register-Her, and at the conference spoke of working to “build bridges between men and women instead of walls.”
“I find it hard to believe that this is Saul on the road to Damascus,” says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, “that Elam has really had an entire personality change.”
Though in person the activists worked hard to coat their message in a kinder, press-friendly sheen, the conference had barely been over for a day before Elam published a post to A Voice for Men taking issue with my tweets during the conference, which made clear that I was upset by many of the sentiments expressed.
In the post, Elam called me a “low rent hack” who “practiced journalistic scumtardery,” a “liar and a bigot [who] will be exposed.” He titled the post “An Amazing, Amazing Conference, Even With the Stink of Jessica Roy in the Air.” Those who tweeted at me following the publication of the post minced fewer words.
It seemed the perfect example of the fact that though the movement was attempting to put a polite face on in public, they still continue to harass and intimidate online. (Though they adopted similarly skeptical attitudes, none of the male reporters who tweeted or wrote about the event were subject to similar treatment.)
Elam says that being satirical and controversial is his way of drawing attention to the message.
When you talk to someone like 68-year-old Steve DeLuca, the legitimate need to remedy some of the issues raised by men’s-rights activists becomes more evident. A Vietnam veteran who was injured in combat, DeLuca spoke movingly to me about the two brothers he lost to suicide, and the unfathomable toll the high suicide rate among men can take. There are men out there, like DeLuca and Brendan Rex, who have a real stake in the movement’s success. The paranoia and vitriol of its leaders can’t possibly do anything for them.”

A perfect example of how Elam and his minions just keep sticking their feet in their mouths and making the MRM look really bad and clearly misogynistic.

<p>ya, know my instincts tell me that jack ass is a narcissists, I place him on a scale of one to ten way beyond a ten!!! </p><p>he has a Overwhelming need to feed it!!</p><p>that is why he keeps coming back at us even though we through shit at him! </p><p>he doesn't care !!! because its better then no attention at all! he has to feed it!! or he becomes depressed, its his drug!! </p><p>he called into the radio show every night, sometimes two or three times a night, not to get his point across but, to feed his insane need for attention! </p><p>he placed his real (post office) picture up on the W W W so it would be picked up when some one would type in his name !! oh there's jack!!! I know him!!! </p><p>have you noticed he never approaches women his own age??? its just teen aged girls ??? he is looking for them to admire him .LOOK little girl im your big daddy i can rock your world !!!!</p><p>he knows grown adult women know he is full of shit and he !!</p><p>no more cares about helping men than the moon does!! its all about having his moment and time ,feeding his disorder ! </p><p>what a fucking ass hole!!!</p>

In the mean time,Paul Elam snickers all the way to the bank while his fans continue to pat his back.

Paul Elam & Avfm are being investigated by the IRS and the STATE OF TX !!!