The other day, you may recall, I wrote about a little slut-shaming campaign that a number of A Voice for Men staffers, including top banana Paul Elam, were waging against a former AVFMer who’s turned into a critic of the site. Her crime? She had put some topless photos of herself online — or, to be more precise, had sent them to someone who’d passed them along to others.
The horror.
Now Elam and his AVFM buddies have launched a campaign to frame feminists for allegedly getting topless photos of the pseudonymous AVFM “social media director” Janet Bloomfield taken down on Facebook.
Yep. That’s right. They’re not mad at feminists for putting up topless photos of Bloomfield. They’re accusing feminists of getting Facebook to remove them.
This bizarre little faux controversy started yesterday when Bloomfield posted a topless photo of herself on Facebook. Other AVFMers tweeted a link to her post on Facebook, directing some of their Tweets at a number of their least favorite online feminists, including Anita Sarkeesian, Amanda Marcotte, and me.
At the time, I was puzzled as to why Jack Barnes, a particularly rabid AVFMer who has me blocked on Twitter, felt it necessary to send me a link to a topless photo of his colleague. I figured the two of them were up to something, but I couldn’t figure out what.
Well, it now appears they were trying to gin up a controversy they could blame on feminism.
Because today, that picture was taken down by Facebook. Or perhaps by Bloomfield, who has a long history of dirty tricks, in an attempt to frame feminists for the takedown.
Who knows? What I do know is that AVFM’s flying Twitter monkeys are flitting about Twitter blaming “hateful feminists” for allegedly flagging Bloomfield’s pic. (Pics blurred because some of you access this blog at work.)
You can’t make this shit up. Well, you could, but who would believe you?
Men’s Rights Activists, once again stranger than fiction.
I think all this goes to show just what AVFM will do to/for the women in their ranks, depending on whether she’s in favour with them or not. Topless photo and she’s one of the guys? FREE SPEECH!
Topless photo and she’s not? CRUCIFY!
“Receives double mastectomy” seems like a pretty insensitive way to frame having your pictures removed from a social networking site in accordance with their policy on nudity.
Speaking of policy violations, having an account as “Janet Bloomfield” was one not so long ago…when Facebook had a no-pseudonym policy.
LOL! Such idiots.
BTW, do these people ever work? As in, you know, have jobs that allow them to support themselves and their families and contribute something useful to society?
Are they even adults…?
Wow. They are trying SO HARD to start a controversy. It’s actually kind of adorable how much effort they put in for this dumb thing.
Also, they are WAY behind the curve with #FreeTheNipple. All I can do is point and laugh.
Why do they think that feminists would care about JB’s nipples in any capacity?
Also, check out the AVfM lads trying to rally GamerGate around JB’s Buzzfeed article.
https://twitter.com/deanesmay/status/582575856809312256
https://twitter.com/Alvhun/status/582575627238318081
Because, you know, it’s about ethics in one big melting pot of online misogyny.
Do these people seriously have nothing better to do? So many more productive ways they could spend their time . . . clipping their toenails, researching the mating habits of the puffer fish, juggling geese . . .
I’m sure there is some term for this phenomenon: when you like and approve of someone (especially some famous person who might also be a role model), you take offense when they are criticized; you think they can do no wrong; when you dislike someone (for reasons that might even have been rational at some point, but possibly the hate is totally irrational) there is nothing they can do right; they can’t even really breathe correctly as far as you’re concerned.
I recognize the tendency even in myself. I want the people I like to do no wrong and for the people I dislike to fail spectacularly. However, I recognize this in myself and try not to react to it.
Naked pics/pics of women’s breasts being taken down? Must be a feminazi conspiracy. Facebook is otherwise so notoriously tolerant of topless photos of women.
http://static.animalpolitico.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sarcasm.jpg
Even if there was a totes legit reason for JB to share photos of her “post-baby body” online… her work colleagues sending them out, unsolicited, to people they hate, is totally creepy.
Also… Doesn’t she realise that women post pictures of breastfeeding, mastectomy scars and non-sexualised naked bodies on Facebook specifically because it’s against their T&Cs and they want to make a specific, decidedly Feminist statement about empowering female nudity and body policing?
Is she wanting to take part in Feminist activism now? Is she trying to express some kind of solidarity with Diana?
Or is it more likely that she’ll reveal in her next blog post that she thinks she can single-handedly encourage Facebook to remove the porn filters that oppress teh poor menz, who can’t even be bothered to navigate to another website for their boner-pleasing noodz?
Or my best theory, based on how vindictive she can be – she wants to be able to share nudes of anyone she wants to smear on social media, and since FB frowns upon that, she’s using her own nudes to demand that they be allowed?
Seems bizarre enough to be MRA-logic, but who knows? They sure do like to keep us guessing whatever they’ll come up with next.
So, like, is there any way to report the revenge porn campaign against Davison to… Whichever government body prosecutes revenge porn cases? Or can only the victim do that?
The Buzzfeed thing is hilarious because they’re acting like Buzzfeed hired her to write it. It’s just one of their “community” postings, that anyone could make. I think my cats have done a couple.
I really don’t know what point JB is trying to make. She posted the same pic, or a similar one, on Twitter at one point.
I keep holding out hope that one of these redpillians will turn out to be playing some sort of long con on the other redpillians just for shits and giggles. But I think that’s my wishful thinking, no one can really think like that can they?, optimistic brain hoping that.
David, who knows what the fuck JB is trying to do any more. Everything that comes out of her mouth screams ‘look at meeeeee!’
QFT. In what world is that remotely okay?
That’s hilarious.
Personally I have no problem with JB plastering her breasts all over social media, as a feminist I abhor slut shaming. I suppose she can always put them on her blog?
You don’t think she might be doing this for attention, do you?
I’d hesitate to say that a woman posting nudes of herself is “just doing it for attention”, but sending links to notable feminists/anti-redpillers is a hilariously transparent attempt to get attention and start a fight.
@Aunt Edna – someone doesn’t have to have a job to be useful to society. On the flip side it’s completely possible to HAVE a job and be a waste of space and fresh air. Don’t assume working would be the only way they can redeem themselves. Sorry if this seems an odd thing to get on about, but I’m a severely disabled woman who can’t work and I like to think I have SOME use to society.
I’m all up for desexualizing women’s breasts, but this is some hypocritical bullshit right here.
@AltoFronto: I think the theory that she wants to post other people’s nudes as revenge porn is the most likely theory. She does like to be an attack dog.
As for the Buzzfeed thing, it is silly that they’re like “LOOK, Buzzfeed’s letting it stay here! That means they approve!” Ugh, no. And I think the only reason GamerGate would jump on this is because they hate Buzzfeed.
So cute of AVFMorons to call their critics “haters”, when all those people do is sit around hating on feminists all day. And wanking to pix of Judgy Nobody’s boobs.
(By “those people”, I mean AVFMorons & Co., in case that’s not clear.)
Why would feminists give a single, solitary happy rat’s behind about JBs boobs or who she shares pics of them with? They’re just breasts. I wouldn’t care if she strolled down the street topless. I wouldn’t care if she made a highly successful porn site. It’s her body. It’s her business.
Feminists support a woman’s right to make her own choices with her body and who she shares it with. It’s the slut-shaming, upskirt photo taking, internet stalking, misogynist manosphere that want to control what women do with their own bodies and social networking accounts.
These claims are just lies, noise and projection. That’s all MRAs know how to do.