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my tumblr, they found a twitter acct that I don’t even use, they even found an old [dating site] profile of mine with outdated info …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.
*checks thread to see how much it has exploded*
Why would anyone want to watch some piece of homophobic propaganda?
Translation: Men tend to exhibit interests in the higher paying fields that still have lots of sexism towards women who try to enter, whereas women are drawn to places that don’t try to kick them out because of sexism, even though these fields pay much less, mostly due to them being women dominated.
I’m sorry, that was the version of reality that doesn’t ignore all past history and socialization.
Translation: I have nothing against single parents, I just don’t think that they are stable or have real families.
And hundreds of years ago (still today, too, sadly) people thought that black people and white people were so different.
We also saw lots of evidence that the earth was flat. I mean, can you see it curving? Huh? huh?
I’d say you’re way of thinking is going the way of the dinosaurs, but frankly dinosaurs are cool. You’re way of thinking is going the way of smallpox and all those other nasty diseases that don’t occur much any more.
I will repeat: being polite (on the surface) about your bigotry does not make it any less bigoted.
You proved yourself that you were a misogynist and a homophobe when you spouted your outdated caveman ideologies on women and went on about why gay marriage should be illegal. This is not a Miss/Mr Congeniality contest. You do not get points for being polite. You get points for not being a bigot.
This just amused me too much to not include. First of all “supposed” misogyny. That only proves you are a misogynist. When women are paid less than men, valued less than men, sexual assaulted at a much higher rate with only 3 percent of rapists seeing prison time, and you say that misogyny does not exist, you are a misogynist. When people think that they can silence women by insinuating that they are all whores and that that is a witty retort instead of a blatant display of male privilege, misogyny exists. When people tell men to smile bastard, instead of smile bitch you can go on about misogyny not existing. When absences of men in history are made and then it’s treated as if men were just never competent enough to compete with the women, I’ll give a shit about your opinion. When people think that men talk to much when they talk the same amount as women I will say that misogyny doesn’t exist. Until then, you are just polite on the surface, but a bigot underneath.
Jonathan: You asked for evidence that people at AVfM condone violence.
Justice
Targeted?
He is fortunate … in the future he and his ilk will not be so fortunate. MHRAs are coming to realize that little will change (even if the PR war is won) until men specifically make it clear that feminists and their sympathizers will be held “accountable”.
Feminism’s success was mainly due to threatened withdrawal of sexual access to females, unless men accepted feminist demands. Since the 1960s, men have went along and only now are starting to understand the price is too high.
History clearly shows that societal changes only occur when the rising group holds the incumbent group “accountable”. Men **must** make this **very** clear or all the MHRA conferences, blogs, discussion groups, scholarly articles, and newspaper stories will only be viewed as entertainment by feminists and their backers.
They don’t have link comments, but it’s in the thread where John the Other says it’s “his turn in the barrel.
And one of my links didn’t go through. Pictured: male privilege in action
Fade: You go.
@pecunium.
Thank you. XD
I am forming the Fade smackdown club. 😀
And Marie too. We have some great fiskers here.
Stop overshadowing me Fade, it’s not nice 😉
^kidding.
Sadly, I think your club will not have much to celebrate because I only respond to trolls articulately once in a blue moon*. Most of the time, I just point and laugh. Or ignore them because they are tedious.
*is that a real phrase?
@cloudiah
Oh yay! 😀
“Feel free to have the last say” = “I have no rebuttal and I’m losing badly so I’m flouncing.” See also “Go ahead and flame me” etc.
Maybe we just need another ancillary blog like mine that celebrates all the great Mbz smackdowns by anyone. 🙂
*clicks over to your blog to see the smackdowns*
@cloudiah
So he did flounce after that. I forgot whether he posted one more time or not.
Sorry if I’m a little hard to understand today, I’m quasi sick, and my danged computer is being difficult. /mope
@cloudiah
I just saw the pic of the sexy toothbrush and razor on your blog and can’t stop laughing… XD
Mine doesn’t really do smackdowns, it does artistry and hilarity. 🙂
It is a sexy toothbrush.
I did figure that out when I clicked over. XD It is awesome, though
@cloudiah
Seconding fade. I can’t believe I never looked at your blog before.
Also, I am rather curious what train of thought led to the creation of that toothbrush…
wow, better get some fade t-shirts made as well!!
This is despicable. No one deserves rape/death threats, but how fucking convenient that you neglected to mention that the protestors promised “militant action,” attempted to intimidate people away from the talk and avoided requests to openly debate in favor of attempting to silence anyone who tried disagreeing with them, to the extent of breaking the law by pulling the fire alarm. Which only could’ve, you know, risked people’s lives by diverting needed resources, and wastes over a thousand bucks of Canadian taxpayer money, and which Red cheered for. And it’s not like she also “not exactly politely” dismissed talk of suicide victims with “oh, cry me a river,” right?
Face it. When MRAs fuck up you’re more than happy to subsume them all under an umbrella stereotype, but when feminists pull the same shit you get the luxury to bawl “NAFALT!” Guess what? You can’t push this onto the fringe radscum this time. Fucking clean house when people call you out on your mess.
How fucking convenient that you think it’s despicable just before you started in on your apologism and justifications.
Even if they “threatened militant action” people sending death threats isn’t acceptable. Furthermore the death/rape/torture threats and the doxxing which raises them to terrorism came after those things didn’t happen.
You fail twice.
, to the extent of breaking the law by pulling the fire alarm.
Did she do it? Did she call for it to be done? Nope. If it did, and any of the turdblossoms who have been maintaining the campaign of terrorism you are condoning here, had such evidence they should turn it over to the proper authorities, because vigilantism isn’t the way to deal with that.
You can’t push this onto the fringe radscum this time. So admit this is the MO of mainstream MRM activism. Glad to see someone with the courage to admit that.
Fucking clean house when people call you out on your mess.
The way you are doing here? With lies about what happened,and bullshit excuses for what “your side” did?
Why should I be taking advice from a hypocrite willing to so blatantly impeach his own honesty and credibility?
Were you like, reading the rest of the almost 1500 comments where people repeatedly pointed out she did not pull the fire alarm in the video that was posted?
MRAs have been online, advocating violence against women, everyday, for years. They have mottos printed on coffee cups about fucking feminists shit up. As everyone knows, they represent a hate movement arguing for the extermination of feminists, and the severe abuse of all other women. Everyone knows this, including the angry young women at the university that day. I’m happy to overlook them pulling a fire alarm or yelling stuff at these guys.
@chloe
Is some little troll missing a citation?
Also, anyone whines about ‘wasting taxpayer money’ I always want to play for them the worlds tiniest violin.
Hey, Chloe – everything you’re bringing up has already been discussed in the two threads on the woman in question here. Either use the back button or learn to Google.