After reading this very disturbing passage, please answer the following question: Do you think people who espouse hatred of women and encourage violence toward women should be protected by freedom of speech? Yes/no? Your response should: *be a one page essay *be 2 detailed paragraphs—approximately 300 words total *answer the question completely—stating your reasons for yes, if you choose yes, reasons for no, if you choose no. PASSAGE BELOW Misogyny Paul Elam is “the best-known men’s rights activist in the United States” (Potok, 2014), so it’s not surprising that he organized an international men’s rights conference in 2014 that attracted over 250 attendees (A Voice for Men, n.d.). The conference was held in Detroit because organizers believed such an industrial city exemplified masculinity. Elam once declared the month of October as “Bash a Violent Bitch Month” and elaborated by saying “I mean literally to grab them by the hair and smack their face against the wall” (Elam, 2014). Elam posts photos of women with black eyes and battered faces with captions such as “Maybe she DID have it coming” and “you mess with the bull, you get the horn” (Elam, 2014). Elam has also repeatedly said that women who are raped bring the violence on themselves: “THEY ARE NOT ASKING TO GET RAPED. They are freaking begging for it. Damn near demanding it” (Elam, 2010). Elaborating his opinion, Elam writes, “A lot of women get pummeled and pumped because they are stupid (and often arrogant) enough to walk through life with the equivalent of a I’M A STUPID, CONNIVING BITCH—PLEASE RAPE ME neon sign glowing above their empty little narcissistic heads” (Elam, 2010). The attitude that Elam expresses has a name: misogyny, which is hatred of women. Misogyny is more than sexism or even disliking some women. It is hatred of women as a group, and that hatred reflects ideas woven into the culture (Manne, 2017; Russell-Kraft, 2019). The Internet is a place where misogyny can thrive. The manosphere is the name given to blogs and other online forums that refer to women as “whores” and “social cancers” and make comments such as “if you were allowed to beat your wife we wouldn’t be dealing with this” (Bellafante, 2016).
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