And so the MRAs have found yet another woman to hate.
Earlier this month, as many of you no doubt know, a Men’s Rights group sponsored a lecture at the University of Toronto. The event drew protesters, and the protesters drew MRAs with video cameras. One of the MRAs filmed a confrontation between a red-haired feminist activist and a number of MRAs who continually interrupted her as she tried to read a brief statement.
Her crime? She wasn’t exactly polite in responding to the interrupters. And so, after video of the confrontation was uploaded to YouTube, and linked to on the Men’s Rights subreddit and elsewhere, she became a virtual punching bag for the angry misogynists of the internet.
A Voice for Men, naturally, led the charge, running an article by Canadian MRA Dan Perrins labeling her “Little red frothing fornication mouth” and commenting on her breasts. The Amazing Atheist weighed in with a video I couldn’t bring myself to even watch.
Since being targeted by angry YouTube misogynists and MRAs, the red-haired activist has received death threats, rape threats and literally hundreds of other hateful and harassing messages. She’s also been “doxxed” — that is, she’s had her personal information plastered all over the internet, including on A Voice for Men’s forum. Ten days after being uploaded to YouTube, the video of her faceoff against the MRAs has garnered more than 300,000 views, and YouTubers are still leaving threats and insults and crude sexual comments.
This, apparently, is what “Men’s Human Rights Activism” consists of: the doxxing and harassment of individual women.
Several days ago, she contacted me to tell me about the harassment she’s endured. Here’s some of what she wrote:
I’m the red-head. I’m sure by now, you’re one of the 260,000 people who have seen the video of me … .
Because I had the audacity to tell a dude to stfu, an MRA no less, I have since been the target of not only just online misogyny (as if that’s a surprise) but cyber stalking, rape and death threats. They somehow found my facebook, they found my tumblr, they found a twitter acct that I don’t even use, they even found an old [dating site] profile of mine with outdated info …
I also got an anonymous message on tumblr that specifically said “[name deleted] would be disappointed”. [Name deleted] is my dog that died 1.5 years ago, I don’t talk about him on tumblr, nor fb, so they would have had to reaaaaalllly dig to find this info. …
In about 12-24hours, I got about400-500 new messages on my blog, most of them hate, which included rape and death threats, also people wishing death upon me or the typical troll “kill yourself” message. They made a meme of me.
I dunno how many haters I have, and I don’t know where they are. I can’t be sure at any given second, if I’m ever outside my house … if anyone is going to recognize me and try to hurt me.
With her permission, I am reposting screenshots she sent me documenting some of the harassment she’s endured. Even though her personal information has already been widely disseminated online, I don’t want to contribute to that, so I’ve whited out any information that might reveal her identity.
TRIGGER WARNING for what follows, for threatening language and crude sexual remarks.
Here’s a death threat she received from someone claiming to represent the “Islamic Brotherhood.”
Here are some sample comments from her Tumblr inbox. I’ve whited out comments and parts of comments that consist of her contact info, which being sent to her in an attempt to intimidate and frighten her by letting her know they “know where she lives.”
Here’s another threatening comment sent to her via Tumblr:
Here are some comments sent to her via her YouTube account. You’ll notice that the second comment comes from AVFM’s Dan Perrins, who is clearly relishing the attacks on her.
And another glimpse into her YouTube inbox:
Here’s a screenshot from a Men’s Rights forum revealing her personal information.
Meanwhile, over on YouTube, the hateful comments continue to pile up. Here are some of the nastiest ones I’ve collected. I am deliberately posting a lot of them in an attempt to convey something of the relentless nature of the attacks on teh red-haired activist — though I should note I’ve only gone through a small portion of the total comments there and this doesn’t even reflect all of the awful ones I found. These are not in any particular order. I threw in a few non-threatening ones that struck me as a tad ironic or otherwise revealing.
Again, this is only a small fraction of the abuse she’s gotten on YouTube.
This is what happens when MRAs and other misogynists target a woman online. The only thing that’s surprising here is the sheer amount of the hateful comments.
I’ve seen no serious attempts from any MRAs to rein in this sort of hatred. A Voice for Men has tried to distance itself in a superficial way from some of the harassment it has played a central role in unleashing, with an official announcement asking readers to refrain from posting the personal information of the red-haired activist in the comments. Meanwhile, in the AVFM forum, comments linking to her defunct dating profiles remain up.
This is what MRA “activism” looks like.
Coming tomorrow: A more detailed look at AVFM’s role in the harassment.
@clintiskeen:
I second Fade. What’s your point here? Because you are apparently bringing up some other event, completely unrelated to the one in the op, and demanding that everyone make a statement condeming the person who is currently targeted with shitloads of abuse and hate speech.
Why should we, exactly? Why should we set aside trying to offer support, and condemning those who target her, just so we can add to the abuse by denouncing something else?
There is zero justification for her abuse. None. And you have no right to demand we condemn someone instead of condemning those who abuse her. We are not making any judgement of her as a person. This is not about her. This is about the abuse she’s experienced, and the rampant rape and death threats. You twit.
It wasn’t a protest because why now? They didn’t protest in a way you could ignore them? Dude, U of T students have every right to protest speakers in their own university.
“She ruined the misogyny party. I imagine that would be a rather bleak affair. Lots of growls and bad beer.”
Well we’ll never know, will we. All we will ever know is that a published woman was about to speak about how to deal with oppressive groups who want to take away rights from other groups and how she’s had to deal with it couldn’t be heard because the protesters were in the hall with bullhorns shouting over her. Then they pulled the fire alarm.
That’s the thing. We’ll never know now what the hell they were going to say. Maybe if they had been allowed to speak it would have become a bunch of misogynist nonsense, but because they weren’t allowed to speak we’ll not only never know what would have been said, we know that Channity was saying that feminism isn’t trying to take away men’s rights, after taking away the rights of a certain group of men to have their little party, then when asked about men’s health and suicide sang cry me a river.
From my point of view they came out winning. They wanted to put out a message to other men, and had they been ignored I would never have known about it. Channity gave their message wings, and out of the millions of people who saw it some people were so outraged at her behavior they sent her nasty messages.
@esmnmb:
You should probably stop JAQing off and actually engage in people’s responses then. People are explaining to you exactly why “paper abortions” are not a reasonable argument, and why you should not be on the fence. With no engagement, then you give the impression that you support it but want to pretend you are objective, or you are just wasting people’s time and being annoying.
I was just saying what other women had said to me after the procedure. Meant no harm.
Clint, you’re a grade A dipshit–this happened in CANADA, no matter what we say in the States. Different laws, dumbass.
“All we will ever know is that a published woman was about to speak about how to deal with oppressive groups who want to take away rights from other groups….” I think you may be the only person who ‘knows’ that.
My point, kirbywarp, from the beginning, as I have repeated time and time and time again, is that this post is factually inaccurate.
OP: “Her crime? She wasn’t exactly polite in responding to the interrupters. ”
Her crime was harassment and inciting people to commit a felony. Her crimes were, you know, crimes. I am not, nor have I ever condoned the actions of the people who harassed her online. Saying this all happened because she used the “F” word when someone interrupted her as is said flat out by David is completely disingenuous at worst, and completely ignorant at best
Clint, email David directly, we don’t give a fuck what you think.
timetravellingfool, the only person here perhaps as I’m the only one who bothered to watch the videos of how Channity’s mob was acting and how impossible it was for their speaker to be heard. She had a small voice and all that could really be made out was her intro and her apologizing that she wouldn’t be able to be heard despite the microphone.
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how was she commiting a felony? Shouting in a loud speaker? Protesting?
The “f” word? that’s not what the post is about. The post is about how she got threatened due to rampant misogyny
Even if you were right about her commiting a felony (I really don’t think you are) that would still not be the issue. The issue would be the misogyny and the MRAs who think it’s okay to threaten to kill or rape a woman because of ANYTHING>
hellkell, if you don’t give a fuck what people think, why are you in a comment section?
I mean if you only care about what certain people think, start your own facebook group called hellkell’s friends talk about manboobz.com
Funny. Clint, all the AVfM jagoffs are talking about how rude she was, not that she committed a crime. If they can get it right, why can’t you?
Edude, I’ve made several carefully thought out responses to your concerns. I have yet to hear any response from you.
If you don’t support paper abortions, then you don’t support it. You can’t not support something and still be sitting on the fence.
@clintiskeen:
Unless you somehow show that hatred towards her is motivated by her involvement in the protest in your video, then the op’s statement is not incorrect. People are responding to the video of her trying to read a statement and telling someone to shut the fuck up. That is what the op is referring to, not the random video you’ve pulled up.
As far as I know, you’ve failed to do so.
pulling a fire alarm when there is no fire is a felony in the US, also I said incitement to commit felony
… which freaking video this time, because last video didn’t match up to your description at all
Clint: I don’t give a fuck what misogynist dipshits like YOU think. Why are you here? To stamp your feet and whine?
Holy turkey feathers, I go offline for a few hours and this thing explodes…
I haven’t read everything yet, but does Clint explain how one person exercising her freedom of speech outside another event is the equivalent of denying people at that event their freedom of speech? ‘Cos I was under the impression that she had the right to free speech also. (Note: I am not talking about legal rights, which I understand may be different in Canada.) (Also note that I have seen snippets of videos taken from inside the auditorium, and while you could hear that there were protesters outside, it wasn’t deafening.) (Note the third: The woman receiving death threats did not pull the fire alarm.)
@ Hellkell- I don’t know how you run things in the States, but up here freedom of speech includes the right to protest. And protesting a speaker whose message you have moral objections to- hells yeah, all day three times a day.
kirbywarp The burden of proof is not on me to prove why they harassed her, but I did prove that the OP is factually incorrect, which was my point
Clint–Toronto is in Canada–why can’t you read? U.S, laws don’t apply there.
This. Was not In. The US
The burden of proof is not one you? Fucker, stop trying to make it sound like they harrassed her for a different reason because if you want to change anyone’s mind, the burden of proof is on you.
yes/ seconded.