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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@marinerachel
” I wouldn’t derail a public discussion in order to make it about my personal challenges. ”
Except you’re doing it right now, so we already have proof that you’re lying.
In fact, I find you indistingishable from the typical MRA whining about being told not to be sexist scum.
Think about this for a moment.
@marinerachel, if your idea of “fishing for compliments and attention” is simply stating that it’s not cool to be a dick to mentally ill people and that one have mental illness oneself and don’t like the harassment/appreciate the defense from harassment then you have a rather skewed view of how that works. By bringing this up and trying to stop people from bringing it up, all you really do is bring it more up anyways, so the best thing for all of us would be if you just let it go and instead either ignore the comments about ableist language or ignore the comment section entirely I think
I would just like to second marinerachel’s comments. Like, everything.
That is all.
Says the person who just went off on a tangent (and had a whole paragraph about their mental illnesses) because they didn’t like that we’re tired of dealing with casual ableism, and then proceeded to tone police everyone because a few people told two commenters to not fucking equate mental illness with being a terrible person. How inconsiderate of us to say we don’t like to see people use casual ableism in their comments because it bores you so much.
Oh, and look! Someone did it again while you were off trying to tell everyone to shut the fuck up because we’re boring you.
Apparently, we still need to have this conversation.
If you don’t want to continue having it, maybe you should just fucking drop it, huh?
Honestly, I don’t even have the energy to deal with the rest of your fucking self-righteous bullshit. If you don’t want to call people out for being ableist, that’s fine, as that’s your business. But you don’t get to police everyone else who does, and you certainly don’t get to dictate how the rest of us should feel about it, or the fucking protocol about how it should be done. If it bores you that fucking much, don’t fucking participate.
Get off your fucking high horse and shut the fuck up.
@marinerachel
Which would be all well and good, but… note that we do not have this discussion about physical illness. People somehow manage to avoid speculating on JB’s physical health, so, if these things are equivalent to that degree and people do not think she’s actually mentally ill… why not?
So you wouldn’t do… what you’re currently doing. As in, complaining about how narcissistic you think we’re being and how boring it makes the comments section, therefore getting us both back onto the ableism topic and further away from the “ideas to fix this” topic, all for the sake of your enjoyment.
And you know what? It’s not narcissistic to want to enjoy a comments section. But complaining about our supposed self-absorption and about how our imagined enjoyment is boring you in the same internet-breath is a bit hypocritical.
You’re right, telling people over and over that they’re being hurtful and asking them not to do it is quite tiresome. Especially because most people double down on it when called out. I fucking love it when someone says they’re sorry instead of “what I said is fine Because Reasons”.
I will note that saying that someone should see a mental health professional carries heavy implications of “because they’re crazy”. I would personally like to see JB see a mental health professional in order to process her violent fantasies and perhaps learn some tips for countering all-or-nothing thinking. That’s assuming that what she says on the internet is what she actually believes, and not an act to play to the MRAs. I’m not sure.
Nightmarelyre, I don’t think that’s what she’s saying.
I think what she’s saying is that one response to each comment with ableism might be enough, instead of 3-10 of us all telling the offender pretty much the exact same thing.
Maybe.
I know it’s sometimes hard to hit refresh before posting, and sometimes it feels like the responses already there aren’t thorough enough, but often times we get a string of about 5 responses saying pretty much the same thing, i.e. “that ableism is really not cool and please knock it off”
It can get a little overwhelming on newbie offenders and buries other discussions.
I still love the comments here, and I love that there’s usually pushback on ableist language within a short period of the initial ableist post… I just also wish that we could accept other people’s corrections and wait to see if said initial corrections actually have an impact.
My two cents. They might only be worth nada.
@contrapangloss: I totally agree, sometimes it’s hard to noticed that you’ve been ninja’d on that front.
However, that’s not why I’m taking offense to what marinemichael is saying. They’re going off about how it bores them and how selfish we are for doing so, rather than just going “Hey, maybe we could lay off a little bit.”
They came in here with some aggressive, tone-policing, self-righteous bullshit, and this isn’t the first time they’ve done it either.
^what Paradoxical Intention said
@contrapangloss
I agree with you, actually. That’s why I feel like we need a visible “ableism is not cool here” note. So that that stuff doesn’t happen as much. I’m just being annoyed at the “you are hindering my enjoyment because I imagine you are enjoying it when people throw muck in the lake” thing. Not at constructive comments.
People read and write at different speeds, so naturally you’re gonna have several responses to the same thing with a similar tone, such as informing someone about their ableism, on a forum like this.
I mean, that’s how people get ninja’d. You cannot stop something like that from happening.
What, are people suppose to wait around and refresh the page a million times to see if someone got it? Assume someone is going to reply in time? Ignore it every time someone says something insensitive?
Personally, I quite like seeing people get told off. I wasn’t even a sentence into marinerachel post when I knew they were gonna get told off. I got the popcorn ready.
IDK why. Probably because I’m a sadist.
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Also I’m an asshole.
One of the most positive aspects of this blog is that people can state that they have mental illnesses without being constantly demeaned (by regulars, at least) or their comments regarded as not worth considering because they are c-word. Could I seriously suggest, however, that we NOT regard statements like “so-and-so could benefit from seeing a mental health professional” as ableist. There are a great number of people who are not mentally ill who do benefit from professional counseling. The purpose of our policy is to avoid stigmatizing the mentally ill; but unfortunately there is a tendency in the world outside this blog to apply the stigma of mental illness to anyone who seeks professional help, which makes it much harder for people to seek help when they need it.
There is some reason to believe that JB has anger management issues that might be ameliorated by professional help, but the fact that many people would consider it an admission of mental illness is a serious disincentive to her actually seeking it (not that I think she would anyway). I agree with what someone said above abut her being unlikely to commit an actual violent act, but you could have said the same thing about Eliot Rodger or Dylan Roof before their killing sprees — there wasn’t much to distinguish them from thousands of other angry young men prior to their actions.
It would be ironic if, in the effort to reduce the stigma of mental illness, we contributed to spreading it to people who are not mentally ill.
And so I too am ninja’d. Ah, well.
@Pandapool
Well, that’s why I’m saying a notice would probably be best. Helps keep the good commenters from making the mistake, and trolls can still get run out on the nope train.
…I miss the old trolls. The ableist trolls are unimaginative, mainly indistinguishable, and just grate in a way that’s not so much fun. I do like to see ableism getting stamped out, but it’s getting really tiresome and leading me to kinda jump on good-faith people a bit. We need variety in our trolls, I guess; these are getting worn out.
…andiexist, on my more cynical days I wonder if the trolls are getting cleverer and purposefully choosing the tactics that make us most likely to get all grumble-y with one another.
I can’t believe I”m saying this, but I’d almost be cool with another Erin the Bestest Feminist or another awful sort like Undfreeland, or even Flounce Failing Tedious Tion the Ridiculously Racist Annoying Abnoy.
@andiexsit
I stand by my statement of having to have to do a quiz about the site rules before the first post. A very long one. For reasons.
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I will agree that that was my bad. I’m the one who said it.
However, I will agree with Dawn Incognito that there is a connotation of “because they’re crazy” tacked on to the end of that kind of sentiment in this context.
Suggesting that JB see a counselor is alright. Asking that she get “mental help” is not.
@contrapangloss
Dunno. Given some of the stuff GG’s tried, I would not be surprised if some of the drivebys were doing that, at least. :/
@Pandapool
But here’s the million-money-unit-question… we get to see the results, right?
Grumpyold, I second that as well. Suggesting someone would benefit from counselling is not necessarily an insult. To jump on that as being “ableism” seems stigmatising to both those who might seek counselling as well as those who do have mental illnesses.
And if you think “troll” means “someone who disagrees with me”, you might want to check the definition again. Not singling any comment out. It just seems to be used in that way here a lot.
@andiexist
No one gets to post unless they get it 100% right. And the questions are randomized and the answers aren’t in the same place. And it’s over a 100 questions long.
For reasons.
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Pandapool,
I hope it’s not too creepy to say that I like you? People who are assholes in a good way (snarky as fuck) are always my favorite.
I’m drinking red wine and sitting in my dark house listening to Coast to Coast AM on the radio because my power is still out and a radio and cell phone are all I have. So I’m in a weird place and not sure what’s appropriate behavior anymore.
@PI: “However, I will agree with Dawn Incognito that there is a connotation of “because they’re crazy” tacked on to the end of that kind of sentiment in this context.”
And what we want to do is not reinforce that “because they’re crazy” part.
My first wife was/is/will always be mentally ill (schizophrenia with some bipolar symptoms), so I got to see some of the tribulations and stigma of mental illness up close. Mental illness makes life tough enough — we don’t need to pile on social stigma.