Janet Bloomfield — the slur-spewing A Voice for Men “social media director” better known as JudgyBitch — has launched a rather unique fundraiser on Patreon: In addition to funds to spend on better videomaking equipment, she’s asking her supporters to send her $800 for a crossbow so she can “shoot the feminists in the face.”
JB isn’t joking; she’s an avid bowhunter, and she has her crossbow all picked out.
Of course JB claims that the weapon will only be used in self-defense, in case some angry feminist shows up at her door with an axe or something. But in the video above, posted to her Patreon page, she describes her fantasy of using it to maim or kill a feminist in detail, and with great relish.
She starts waxing poetic about what she calls the “angel of death crossbow” at 8:32 in the video above. Here are some of the highlights.
In this first clip, she describes what she would do to any “little brave feminist” who showed up at her door unarmed but seeking a confrontation.
The tl;dr? She would shoot them in the gut with her crossbow, dead center, in an attempt to sever their spine and leave them paralyzed. “You’re gonna drop,” she says, “and you’re never getting back up again.”
As for those who show up at her door with “a hammer, an axe, a knife, a gun” or other weapon, she promises to shoot them dead without warning. “I would love to do it with that beautiful angel of death crossbow,” she says, with a certain manic glee. “Let’s buy Janet a crossbow so she can shoot the feminists in the face!”
MRAs, male and female, seem to spend an awful lot of time and energy fantasizing about doing great harm to their opponents. But this is the first time I’ve seen one actually set up a Patreon fundraiser so they can buy a deadly weapon.
H/T — @TakedownMRAs
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When I checked her Patreon yesterday, it had two backers for what looked like a total of fifteen dollars. I just checked again, and it still looks like that.
It looks like one of them is a monthly patron for five dollars, and the other might have just given her ten bucks.
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Is it possible one of those donors is Paul Elam? 🙂
@John: Could be. There’s one account with a generic name and default avatar that only has liked Janet’s work, and then the other looks more like someone who uses it all the time, who supports Janet, the Sarkeesian Effect, and some other anti-feminist works that I didn’t bother looking at.
@Paradoxical Intention thank you for the welcome package, I’ve been following comment threads here for a while and will stick within the guidelines. I’m more of a dog person however so I fully expect to be in trouble for not creating a kitty avatar!
More interestingly are the misogynists becoming harder to screw out of money or has JB’s audience just dwindled a lot? Just if she’s only raised $15 and Elam has been missing lots of his salary…I mean fundraising… targets, are the MRA assholes becoming more shrewd with money or just going off this particular brand off assholery?
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It was surprising that people supported it in the first place. Now, after everything that’s happened thus far, it’s downright unbelievable that anyone still supports The Sarkeesian Effect now…. Actually, given how self-important he’s known to be, I’ll bet that’s Aurini.
We’re animal lovers in general despite our affurnity with our furunatti overlords, so don’t feel bad!
Well, there’s three possible things I’d like to bring to this:
1. There was a huge hubbub about how much the tickets to the AVfM conference were this past year, so it wouldn’t be surprising that it’s just MRAs being more frugal with their money, or giving their money elsewhere.
2. AVfM haven’t been doing so well in the manosphere as of late. Elam and his lackeys are somewhat falling out of favor, including JB, who is a social media director who has been permabanned from twitter.
3. JB is still a woman, regardless of her fantasies of inflicting violence against women and anti-feminist leanings, and MRA doctrine says men shouldn’t support women or give them money.
@John: I don’t think it’s Auruni. I would think he’d at least have his face plastered all over it, and not have a feminine sounding name and an anime avatar of the pink-haired yandere character from the series Future Diary.
Well, he did come here from Reddit. Most Redditors wouldn’t know what a responsible citizen does if one waved at them while helping an elderly lady and her Girl Scout granddaughter cross the street.
John: Elam? Spend money on someone other than himself? Surely you jest!
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“Police Department. How’s it going, eh?”
“Yeah, there’s a woman on the internet talking about how she’s going to use a crossbow if any intruder ever comes into her house and tries to harm her.”
“Is she all right?”
“Um, yeah, she’s fine. Nothing actually happened. She just told everyone on the internet, including me, that she plans to defend herself against a violent attack, should one occur.”
“And the problem is?”
“Um…the crossbow? I mean, it’s pretty exotic.”
“A crossbow is actually safer than a gun for that purpose. Crossbow bolts don’t travel through people and walls like bullets do. If she can aim the thing as well as she can aim a gun, it’s actually a good way to protect her family from accidental harm. So good on her. Thanks for calling, eh?”
“No, wait! She was really tasteless in how she described how she would defend herself. Almost like she was looking forward to it. Maybe you should put her name down on a list or pay her a visit?”
“For what again?”
“Tastelessness? Excessive zeal?”
“I would totally hang up on you if I weren’t Canadian.”
What’s the deal with these tone-trolling jerkoffs with names like “Someone’s got to say it” and “Everyone’s secretly thinking it”?
Like, worried much that your smug, silent-majority assholery won’t come through unless you preface it properly?
… Though it does make me wonder how long I could get away with being “one of the guys” at one of the cesspools with a name like “You know I’m right” and dozens of dadaist copy-pasta contributions a day.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if David checked the IPs of every single one going back to the first days of this site, they’d all be very similar.
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Good points. Never mind what I said. 🙂
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1. Many Canadians actually don’t like it when your impression of them consists of going “eh”.
2. Many Canadians also don’t like it when you stereotype them as overly nice, even if you may consider that a compliment.
3. Again, we’re not talking about violent attackers. JB specifically referred to feminists who came to her door, unarmed. You make it sound like she’s only talking about a burglar who wishes to break in while she’s asleep to do her harm.
@John: Don’t forget her history of working with people who advocate for violence against women like with “Bash a Violent Bitch Month”.
To clarify, I’m personally in agreement with David: Calling the police is not necessary at this juncture. It’s a matter for Patreon and how they wish to handle someone who is in clear violation of their rules.
@Paradoxical Intention: Ugh. I’m afraid I did forget. Please tell me that at least wasn’t in February, the same time as Breast Cancer Awareness month.
@John: October is when David covered it. October is “domestic violence awareness month”.
Attention-seeking is all it is. I don’t think being a stay at home mom is working out for this lady. She is throwing out videos like this to get a reaction. We are providing the reaction. MRAs in general seem pretty embarrassed by her. Nobody’s threatening her, she’s got nothing to offer or say, so she gets out a weapon and makes provocative statements. She’s collecting our outraged reactions, taking her seriously, so she can say feminists are persecuting her. She’s inventing an issue as anyone looking at her blog can see she has none of her own. Truth? She’s ruining her own prospects for future employment, wasting her higher education, making a joke of her family, and hurting the group she’s trying to get in with with her tiresome provocations.
@Paradoxical Intention: Aw, dammit! That’s even worse!
The fact that JB is, much to our shame, Canadian, ought to be enough to put that rumor of Canadians being uniformly nice to rest.
I dunno, I don’t think an American could’ve come up with the motto “Comedy that makes no apologies. Sorry.”
I have reported a website to the police in the past and unfortunatey, it turned out the internet crime division is powerless. The site I reported was from a man slandering and threatening his ex’s new family, then doxxing them, going as far as posting pictures of their children and describing how to find them on the way to school. After several phonecalls (turns out, the internet crime division doesn’t have a reporting e-mail, and you have to spell out the URLs over the phone, a random ASCII string in a name is a headache!) they told me that there were already several complaints about that site, but since the victim was in Winnipeg and the webmaster in BC, they were not allowed to do anything about it.
I’m happy to hear dogpiling will be part of the comment policy. That is what essentially drove me away as well as the aggression. (The argument had nothing to do with ableism.) I understand there’s a risk of ninja-ing but sometimes criticisms are repeated one or more pages after the original offence so being ninja’d is no excuse. If in doubt, refresh before posting. That’s what I do.
Please correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t see any reference to ableism in the existing Comments Policy. If that’s the case, no wonder it’s been an ongoing problem.
Using the word “fuck” is not a gentle correction; e.g., “for fuck’s sake” or “fuck you.” Sadly, I see those a lot.
Back on topic, why is JB using Patreon to fund retail products? Isn’t that what Kickstarter and the like are for? I doubt she intends to do anything violent. She’s an attention hog and this will get her some.
I don’t much care which side of the “ableism” debate wins. Right now, it seems the entrenched commenters will get their way, and using words like “crazy” will be explicitly outlawed. Now that David has codified your preferences, you have a right to expect people to adhere to them. But it’s not going to work unless newcomers actually READ the policies before commenting, so I’d suggest David put a link much closer to the comment section, or have a disclaimer that appears when submitting one’s first comment or something.
Look, you can’t blame people for coming in here not knowing what you want them to (not) say. The language you consider ableist is almost universally considered inoffensive. The majority of comment spaces on the internet do not have explicit policies, and “thou shalt not argue” is not a customary expectation. It’s not ingrained in people to apologize the first time they’re called on something if it goes against all their previous experience.
I feel like this comment section is usually about 1/3 feminism/ topics of interest and about 2/3 the War on Trolls. Barring a huge change in moderation policies, or in the attitudes of regular commenters, I don’t see that changing. Arguing is the status quo here; everyone just gets really mad about the fact that they’re doing it. To me, it’s head-hurting. But I guess I don’t really see myself as represented by this community, and I certainly don’t see myself represented by most of its opponents.