Men’s Rights website falsely accuses Ohio University student of being a false rape accuser

Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c): False accuser

Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c): False accuser

Well, this is depressing. The Raw Story is reporting that

An Ohio University sophomore has deactivated her social media accounts and is afraid to leave her house after she was falsely identified as the woman who reported she’d been raped in an incident captured on cell phone video by a passerby.

The student, Rachel Cassidy, now falsely accused of being a false rape accuser, has had her personal information — not just her name but her address, the name of her sorority, her social media accounts, even her Pinterest page — listed on a Men’s Rights site called Crimes Against Fathers. (I won’t link to it.)

The man behind Crimes Against Fathers? None other than the notorious Men’s Rights extremist and crackpot Peter Andrew Nolan — or, as he prefers to be known, for reasons I don’t fully understand, Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c) . Apparently taking inspiration from Paul Elam’s Register-Her.com, Nolan’s site does what Register-Her only threatened to do: it actually releases the personal information of those it identifies as “Man-Hating Women.” He will even add names of women you don’t like to the list for a fee of $70 (Australian).

So far the site has several hundred women listed, most of them apparently women who have run afoul of Nolan or his most active lieutenant on the site, the pseudonymous “John Rambo” of “Boycott American Women” fame, either online or in real life. In most cases, luckily, the amount of personal information given out is relatively scanty and the number of people who’ve actually viewed the posts (which is listed on the site) has been small.

That’s not the case with Cassidy, whose life Nolan and “Rambo” have set out to ruin as thoroughly as they can. In addition to her personal information, the site has also dug up an assortment of pictures of her scraped from various sites on the internet.

And, unwilling to believe that she is not the woman in the video — and a false accuser of rape — the two have taken aim at those who’ve stepped forward to defend Cassidy. They’ve posted the personal information of Jenny Hall-Jones, the Dean of Students at Ohio University, for the “crime” of publicly saying that Cassidy is not the woman in the video, as well as several other women who’ve come out in support of Cassidy.

On Crimes Against Fathers, “Rambo” writes

[C]onsidering that women will always try to cover for their fellow women, and will NEVER hold their fellow women accountable, there is a very strong possibility that Jenny [Hall-Jones]  is LYING and that Rachel Cassidy IS the girl in that video. This means that Jenny Hall-Jones is a CRIMINAL because she is covering up for the CRIME of making a false rape accusation. Therefore, she is a criminal and needs to be publicly exposed as such.

Neither “Rambo” nor Nolan has leveled similar accusations against Ohio University president Roderick McDavis, a man, though he too has said that the woman in the video is not Cassidy.

Men’s Rights activists like to say that Nolan isn’t really one of them. If this is the case, they should be willing to stand up and denounce his reprehensible actions, and the very idea of his Crimes Against Fathers “Man-Hating Women” directory.

EDITED TO ADD: I should note that Nolan’s site also has a “Name and Shame the IgnorMANuses” forum directed at alleged man-hating men, including Vince Gilligan (creator of Breaking Bad) and Nacho Vidal (the pseudonymous dude behind MGTOWforums.com). The list is considerably smaller than that of the Man-Hating Women directory, and none of the entries I saw listed any personal information that went much beyond links to Facebook pages.

About David Futrelle

I run the blog We Hunted the Mammoth, which tracks (and mocks) online misogyny. My writing has appeared in a wide variety of places, including Salon, Time.com, the Washington Post, the New York Times Book Review and Money magazine. I like cats.

Posted on October 22, 2013, in a voice for men, antifeminism, crackpottery, doxing, evil women, false accusations, harassment, irony alert, men who should not ever be with women ever, misogyny, MRA, Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c), rape, rape culture and tagged , , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. 398 Comments.

  1. False accusations of false accusations…
    Stop the planet, I want to get off, the MRAs have gone fractal.

  2. What a complete and utter testicle…

  3. What the fuck? I wish they’d arrest this dude.

  4. How is this online bullying and slander not illegal? If it is, why has he not been arrested yet?

  5. What’s the deal with the way he spells his name? It’s nice he includes a colon in there so we know what he thinks with, but is he a sovereign citizen or something?

  6. ScoPi, yeah as I understand it, he’s either a soverign citizen or has cobbled together some beliefs similar to that. He’s been going around trying to set up his own courts to try govt officials in. There are also videos of him online of him appearing in real courts and delivering bizarre speeches to the judges about how he’s not bound by their laws, etc.

  7. If this is the case, they should be willing to stand up and denounce his reprehensible actions, and the very idea of his Crimes Against Fathers “Man-Hating Women” directory.

    Instead, they seem to be engaging in the harassment campaign. It’s hard to dismiss someone as a fringe element when they have henchmen.

  8. So reprehensible. I didn’t recognize the JohnRambo moniker when I read this on Raw Story this morning, but I knew David would probably know who these people are.

    The MRM are abusers and terrorists. Period.

  9. What’s also pissing me off is that of the images that are still being circulated….YOU CAN’T TELL WHAT’S HAPPENING!! I have no idea if that’s a rape or not, and none of these fuckers can tell that she’s “obviously consenting,” either!! The investigation has just started, the man has not been identified, but these terrorists are on a witch hunt for the woman on the basis of two still images that do nothing to confirm what the fuck is going on.

  10. MRAs, do you ever even look at yourselves in a mirror?

    Going by how the MRAs want to punish female false rape accusers, we should totally prosecute them and have them sent off to jail for at least six months, and then ban them from the Internet for ten years.

    Oh wait. They’re dudes, and so men NEVER make false accusations, and even if they do, their own rules don’t apply to them.

  11. Looking at his terrible website, he seems to offer a spin on “strawman redemption” as a for-pay service, which is sovereign citizen/freeman-on-the-land stuff. So yeah. He’s a crank and a terrible person.

  12. I don’t think these misogynistic little piglets really care if they make false accusations, they don’t really care which woman they can ruin as long as she is female then that is excuse enough for them to point their grubby little fingers at her and scream “burn the witch”. It’s all about their hate.

  13. He has made explicit death threats that are currently online against his daughter and son because they have taken the side of their mother. His obsessive hatred of his ex-wife seems to be the basis of this. He is currently in Australia, he says, and they are in another country, which I have to assume is why he isn’t in jail. So is this young woman he is actively inflicting emotional distress on and libeling.. He’s unbalanced and dangerous. The mensrights subreddit is following his lead and adding new libels with a much bigger audience, with mrmrising, a big commenter there, posting a video called “Rachel Cassidy response video 1”.

    This is ugly, evil stuff.

  14. @Bill’s wife, if you’re still lurking, you said these guys couldn’t affect real women, wanna explain this then?

    Also:
    Peter-Andrew: Nolan (c) – Colon explorer.

  15. No, just NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. Bad Evil Bad Evil Dangerous. Normally I just like to have a good larf at these dumb MRA’s etc, but this is just going too far. This man needs to be brought to justice (and I mean the official one, not his own crackpot court)

  16. So, $70.00 AU is enough to prove that random women are evil? I think that fried my logic circuit. How does access to $70.00 AU prove anything?

  17. Shaun: It proves that Nolan is not only a delusional sovereign citizen crank AND a libelous misogynist, but ALSO an opportunistic scammer. He’s trifecta scum.

  18. This is truly distressing. I’m actually having violent thoughts toward his smug disgusting abusive face. I usually don’t apart from the Lego stepping.

    Gee, it’s such a mystery why he lost his kids. As long as he remains wife-less and childless, I’d say the system’s working perty good.

  19. NOPE.

    I am retreating and just looking at cute things today.

    YOU CAN’T MAKE ME DEAL WITH EVIL TODAY. YOU CAN’T.

    :: summons Falconer for a dose of the babies ::

  20. WTF! How is this not terrorism?!

    I really worry that one of these days, some unstable man (or woman) drawn in by all the MRM hateful rhetoric, goes out and kills someone in the name of “men’s rights.”

  21. cloudiah, I have one thing to say.

    Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Ok, two things. Thank you!

  22. How is this online bullying and slander not illegal? If it is, why has he not been arrested yet?

    Whenever he gets in legal trouble for something–in addition to stalking and threatening women, he regularly winds up in court over his scammy software-selling business–he flees to another country. He’s been hopping around Europe for a number of years now. As of last year he was about to get kicked out of Germany and was sending threatening emails to Irish politicians because Ireland rejected his visa application (he’d been there before and has a police record for–surprise!–stalking women). I don’t know where he is now.

    What’s disturbing is that this obvious crank and low-grade crook apparently has followers.

  23. This is the problem with MRAs… (actually one problem among many others with MRAs) They don’t only imply that she’s a false accuser, but they exculde every possibility of the rape to have happened, and this is what makes it even more appalling.

  24. Wow, that is the face that refused to step aboard a thousand courtroom ships.

    I am surprised that he’s not charging his fees in Troy ounces of gold (its value neither fluxes, nor withers, nor changes its shape, you know).

    And BABBEEZ!

    And just so we’re talking about anything else, I’m up to Series 6 of Midsomer Murders and the thing that bothers me the most is our two detectives never carry flashlights. Well, they’d call them torches, but still, a tiny flashlight in the pocket would be invaluable, I think. But no, despite all the moody lighting (seriously, Yorks can’t be that dark all the time, can it?) Our Heroes see perfectly well.

    Also, take a drink whenever a guest star has been on Doctor Who. There’ve been two Bond actors already (Honor Blackman, for one), too.

  25. or, as he prefers to be known, for reasons I don’t fully understand, Peter-Andrew: Nolan(c) .

    I know the answer to this one! One form of kookiness easily co-mingles with another, and what you’re looking at is someone who subscribes to Freeman-on-the-Land/Sovereign Citizen/similar tax-dodger scheme!

    A long, legalese-filled but hilariously snarky explanation in here.

  26. Good thing that colon’s in his name, because what a piece of shit he is.

  27. Is the whole sovereign thing about “I don’t gotta pay taxes or follow your law because I renounce being part of govt” etc, and if his house is on fire he’d be a hypocrite to call the fire dept?

  28. Hope he doesn’t use roads either, but always walk where he’s gonna go through the terrain…

  29. Nolan has shown up in the comments of the Raw Story article about it. Man, he is seriously gross.

  30. You know we all talk about the day we fear actual physical violence will happen, but I really feel this is just as bad. I think that day might as well have already come. This kind of harassment can traumatize someone in the same way violence can and leave emotional scars that last a lifetime. An actual physical assault would be horrifying, but frankly so is this.

  31. He’ll probably hsow up here and spread his gross around.

  32. Is the whole sovereign thing about “I don’t gotta pay taxes or follow your law because I renounce being part of govt” etc, and if his house is on fire he’d be a hypocrite to call the fire dept?

    Oh goodness no. No no no. Of course they will continue using those resources, because apparently magic fairies make them happen. But they are quite “red pill-y” in their approach to “secret bank accounts started in your name when you were born” and other assorted nonsense. Ctrl-F for the most hilarious example in that link, search for “berth certificate” (yes, written like that).

  33. I wish he had a berth certificate that guaranteed he’d stay a certain distance from other people

  34. Wow, this guy Nolan is deep. Like a layer cake of shit.

  35. Well at least I’ll get to call him SPANC to his face if he does.

  36. It looks like his comments have been removed.

  37. Ctrl-F for the most hilarious example in that link, search for “berth certificate” (yes, written like that).

    can’t laugh, at work
    can’t laugh, at work
    can’t laugh, at work

  38. Rachel Cassidy may able to take advantage of the UK’s libel laws if the website is viewable in the UK. I’m not 100% sure though.

  39. Also, may this guy step on all of the Legos, broken into pieces to make it more painful.

  40. “Is the whole sovereign thing about “I don’t gotta pay taxes or follow your law because I renounce being part of govt” etc, and if his house is on fire he’d be a hypocrite to call the fire dept?”
    And
    “Hope he doesn’t use roads either, but always walk where he’s gonna go through the terrain…”

    I hope he doesn’t use his brain.

    YAY! Mine came true!

  41. There’s um, there’s no bottom of the barrel with these guys, is there?

  42. Oh my god, that poor woman. I can only imagine how awful she must be feeling right now. Isn’t there any way to stop what he’s doing?

  43. Sovereign citizenship is also about getting out of speeding tickets by making the stopping officers pay them. I notice in the (quite recent, thank you) link provided by skiriki that the flim flam artist in question tried to get a court clerk made liable for his costs and fees.

    I enjoy pretending that I have the power to alter reality, myself, but that stops when I put up my dice and take off my WIZZARD hat.

  44. Oh, first he tried it with the court clerk, and then he tried it with the justice.

    This Meads fellow has a bad sense of entitlement, doesn’t he.

  45. WHAT DID THE SIMPLE DEFINITE ARTICLE EVER DO TO YOU, DENNIS LARRY MEADS??

  46. And let’s not forget the fact that the Meads dude in that link was weaseling about his marriage and child support payments too.

  47. It looks like his comments have been removed.

    You’re right. GOOD.

  48. Scratch one type of bigot and you’ll usually find more varieties underneath. I guess I shouldn’t really be surprised by this point.

    “What’s disturbing is that this obvious crank and low-grade crook apparently has followers”

    No, kidding Shaenon. Why? Why would anyone… ughh. I feel like shaking myself like a wet dog, just to try to shake his words from my mind.

  49. @Michael Søndberg Olsen: The best I can figure is, there’s a certain kind of person who likes thinking, AH HA I KNOW WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON YOU CAN’T FOOL ME.

    Like that US House of Representatives clerk who grabbed the microphone and started yelling about Freemasons and the Constitution last week.

  50. Oh, yeah, the conspiracy theorist mindset. Who knows what’s “really going on”. Aliens built the pyramids, the flag in the courtroom has the wrong fringes, women are succubi….

  51. Of course what SPANC is doing isn’t terrorism. This behaviour falls within the International Accords Regarding the Fair Use of Women. (hat tip to spinster aunts for that turn of phrase. And in instances like these, it’s an exact description of both the behavior and the lack of legal protection from it.

  52. This behaviour falls within the International Accords Regarding the Fair Use of Women.

    Similar to the Reasonable Boundaries of Objectification That We’ve All Agreed To?

  53. I haven’t read that one Falconer. Got links?

  54. @pillowinhell: It’s a line in the latest greybloke:

  55. Hmm! I didn’t want to post a playlist. Sorry.

  56. I know I’ve brought this up before, but SovCits always make me think of ceremonial/ritual magicians (except less cool and interesting). They want cheat codes for objective reality, but instead of learning Enochian and drawing complicated geometrical sigils, they write their names ALL IN CAPS and bleat about admiralty law and secret bank accounts. Aleister Crowley might have been a lousy human being, but at least he never shot a police officer for a routine traffic stop.

  57. I see the adorable BABBIES have made an appearance.

    MOAR CUTENESS.

    AND EVEN MOAR CUTENESS.

  58. I’m overdosing on a mix of Cloudiah’s posted cuteness and a video I just got of someone bellyrubbing a platypus.

  59. You mean this one, Michael?

  60. Ok. I’m done with humanity. I am now a Squirrel and will spend my days foraging for nuts.
    Fuck this “humans” thing for a game of teacups.

  61. WHY DON’T I HAVE MY OWN PET PLATYPUS? I WOULD GIVE HIM BELLY RUBS ALL THE TIME.

  62. Falconer the Accords cover everything from benevolent sexism to the horrific torture, mutilation or murder of women living in patriarchy. Twist faster came up with the term, and instances like these remind me of it.

  63. I’m sorry if I seemed flippant, pillow.

  64. @Falconer
    I like that the Somegreybloke video’s depiction of the Battle for Britain 2050 includes the horror of muslamic rayguns.

  65. Not to worry about Falconer. I’m just feeling extra snarky about the situation and societies lack of action to fix it.

  66. I’ve felt like that today, myself. I saw a bumper sticker on a truck that said Why should I have to press 1 for English? and I felt like finding the owner and explaining that hey, if he wants nice, cheap produce he’s going to have to put up with the little incidental inconveniences that come from importing and exploiting a migrant farm worker population.

  67. Thats the one falconer….hapinesss….

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