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
@bazia, ohhh man, i kinda want to see that. i’m sad i missed it. sorry for the bad grammar.
@ Bazia – Wow. I’m surprised they removed the post, but I guess if Reddit’s still booting out forums that advocate crimes and actively harass people, it’s more likely a self-preservation move than any kind of moral rectitude.
Still, if JB makes herself a problem for the Misogynist Reich Movement, they’ll soon boot her out and find a better lap-dog.
With any luck, the police might take an interest in her bid to crowd-fund a murder weapon, but I’m not holding out hope.
I’ve reported her to Patreon, and I suggest everyone else do the same. Should take less than 5 minutes since all the evidence is right there on her campaign page, as plain as day.
I reported the campaign to Patreon.
Altofronto, can one report her anonymously with safety? I mean, I don’t want to get shot in the philtrum.
(Remember when Marinerachel was a good poster, not a complete dickhead who only ever showed up to wank on about how evil and boring we all are? Damn, it’s been months.)
Piss. Take two.
*holds up a mirror*
I reported the Patreon.
Does anyone have an idea what province she’s in? The local police should be pointed to it as well. I doubt they’ll be able to do much (there’s no real mechanism to bar crossbow purchases as we can with firearms, they are basically unregulated) but her admission that she leaves weapons around the house “just in case” should at least prompt a lecture on safe storage and self defence in Canada (what is duty to retreat and why is it important?).
If I left my firearms around like she claims she does with bows, I could be thrown in jail and they’d be seized and destroyed. She’s being very, very, careless.
David, may I suggest a line for the comments policy about “being called out etiquette”?
From this conversation, this seems to be an even bigger problem than casual ableism on itself.
People arguing against the current handling of ableism are conveniently ignoring it’s de doubl-down-ers who get an impolite treatment.
Maybe a comment on it would help prevent it.
I’m not optimistic about it though,since I don’t believe people in good faith are the ones who get defensive, then double down, then never seem to want to drop the subject.
But at least it would be clear why the community frowns upon them.
Whoops, Ontario.
BRB, gotta give my head a shake.
Apparently “you’re just like Ally!” is a dog whistle for “hysterical and emotional women.” How lovely.
People who claim we dog pile people who make one comment and either drop it or sincerely apologize. Because usually I see more complaining about the dog piling than the actual dog piling. Usually it’s one or two comments, usually with a civil tone.
And is it just me or has there been a rash lately of people who come out of lurking just to call us mean?
Says the person about to embark on a 500+ word rant about their personal experience of being really really tired of these derails. Which was preceded by two other posts totaling in the vicinity of 1000 words between them. That’s 1500 words dedicated to this subject by you alone, marinerachel
Seriously go fucking look at the fucking thread. It fucking WAS a couple of people going “mate that’s not cool and here’s why” and then 1 or 2 people complained about having to have that conversation again and then YOU dropped 300+ words on us. And then a couple of other people did. And then you dropped 600+ words on us. And now another 500+.
These derails are not fucking caused by people having disproportionate responses to stuff that probably isn’t ableism anyway. They’re caused by people whining AT GREAT FUCKING LENGTH about completely proportional responses to ableism.
Hi! Good morning! Are we still talking about this? It seems so.
@WWTH
It’s not just you. Also, I’m kinda “amused” (read: tired of this garbage) that apparently all us *non-mods* are terrible at moderating anything (o_O) as well as us being totally tyrannical like this other random blog (which may or may not bear any resemblance to what Cyberwulf says it is) all while not being moderators.
People… last I checked, trolls were allowed to post so that we could mock them. We’re tired of a sort of troll that, indeed, causes every discussion to be derailed into being about ableism.
@marinerachel
We’re not here for the entertainment of one particular commenter, and acting like we should be sounds pretty dang “speshul snowflake” to me.
Ahh, whoops, misunderstood you then (I blame the fact I’d been up working for almost two days straight) – in that case, very much agreed. =P I actually have been trying to lay off it somewhat, though.
@Marinerachel
I’m sure you won’t believe me here, but even though I feel a lot more comfortable mentioning my mental illness offhand, I still hate detailing it at length. Not just because having the same conversation over and over again gets so very tiring, but also because I know that while my friends here are fucking awesome and won’t judge or shun me, lurkers and trolls like you will still lord it over my head in one way or another. As you’ve done already.
Rachel, I don’t talk about it because I love making every thread about myself. I actively don’t – I’m so cripplingly shy I couldn’t even bring myself to delurk for well over a year. Yes, finally having a place where I can talk about it without being called a monster is amazing, but I still take longer psyching myself up for such posts than I take typing them. Always will.
But if I don’t post regardless, if I let the stomach butterflies and accusations of “MENTAL ILLNESS OLYMPICS!!!” win, then mindsets like yours will remain dominant, and the next generation will be called monsters too. Better an hour of panic for me than a lifetime of panic for the next person in line.
I’ve never considered the personal discussions of mental illness derails. It’s sad that some posters feel compelled to tell stories they’d rather not tell (and retell, and retell…), but this is a community. Most of the stories here don’t actually lend themselves to lengthy discussion. It’s pretty rare for MRAs to surprise us at this point, and it’s not a bad thing when the thread for a post about Esmay saying dumb stuff on twitter evolves into a personal open thread. It’s usually those conversations that I learn the most from, and I think it’s that kind of personal bonding that makes reading here comforting and not harrowing.
The feeling that one is dealing with a bunch of eggshell monarchs is a deterrent to commenting, especially when it’s plain that some people’s eggshells are more privileged than other people’s eggshells.
One of the problems, I think, is that while no single post correcting new commentators, who have used inappropriate words, about the WHTM policy that they have transgressed is out of line, people who receive four or five such posts for a comment that would be regarded as innocuous elsewhere tend to feel that they have been attacked for something that (in their view) is no biggie. They go into a defensive crouch, which is interpreted as a double-down, and we’re off to the races. I think we should try to be more careful about the multiple posts, and it might even be a good idea to have a gently-phrased canned response that avoids reflecting the fact that someone has run out of patience on this subject.
I’m not sure that calling this sort of thing “ableism”, even though it is, really makes the point in a sufficiently clear manner. I don’t think “ableism” is nearly as well understood as “sexism” or “racism” — prior to visiting WHTM, I would have thought it basically meant insensitivity to the problems that mobility impaired people like myself have with architectural barriers in public buildings. I would suggest something more specific would be better — along the lines of, “Many of our commenters have to deal with mental illness and the social stigma that is attached, and they are seriously harmed by the false assumption that people who do bad — and particularly violent — things must be the product of mental illness. Therefore we ask that posters not use terms like “crazy” and “psycho” or try to make psychiatric diagnoses of people who have done bad things.”
We had a young woman named Michelle who posted here quite a bit. One night she was obviously thinking out loud, and she commented that some group of unpleasant people might be mentally ill. I cringed, because I knew what was coming. Instead of being gently reminded that “we don’t do that here,” she was attacked as if she had thought this out and really intended to knowingly break WHTM policy. She went into a defensive crouch and tried to defend herself, was basically treated as the worst person in the world for doubling down, and within an hour was driven from WHTM permanently — because of a careless remark and a thoroughly normal response to being attacked.
I think we need to remember that we are fighting for a good cause but against something that has become unthinkingly habitual in the outside world.
Oh wow, a total selfish, igborant, shitstain who likes hunting? What an anomaly!
This woman has a job in public relations.
AVFM, everybody.
I’m pretty sure when people accuse a mass killer of being “crazy”, they mean, you know crazy, not “ridiculous” or “selfish”. They aren’t divorcing the terms “crazy”, “insane” and “psycho” from their actual medical meanings. They are using them in the literal medical sense.
This is because many people have been taught that mental illness = mass killer by the media and such. People need to learn to separate people with actual mental illness from people affected by toxic cultures before they can separate “crazy” from JB and her ilk.
I have a hard time thinking she actually believes she’s going to need a crossbow for this purpose.Call me cynical, but it sounds like she found a good way to rile her (disgusting) fanbase into giving her more money. Because we should all know by now how much MRAs and MRA types enjoy fantasizing about violence against women. How better, then, to stir up donations than promising they’ll go toward violence against women?
I have for a while had the idea that there needs to be an unofficial internet rule that whenever you use the “go see a therapist” argument, whether genuine or as an insult, then you should have to make a generous (for your income) donation to your local mental health services. Especially if mental health care is not subsidized where you live.
Sooo…Why has no one, to my knowledge, called the FBI on her???? This seems to be a real threat to cause bodily harm and/or death to innocent women.
I want to know where she lives. I would, indeed, call the authorities on ANYONE who makes threats like that.
somebody should report JB to the authorities, what she is doing has got to be illegal.
@Bazia,
I’m sorry I missed JB getting booted off an MRA subreddit. But I did go to check it out anyway, and saw someone’s upset about the reasons given for there being no female minions. I just knew an MRA would take umbridge at that.
@samantha, JB’s couching all her threats with insisting it’ll only be about self defense. Since it’s highly unlikely any feminist will bother approaching her house, her threats are empty. I don’t believe for a moment that she will go out on a murder spree, she’s stupid and bigoted, but not evil like Peter Nolan.
That said, her admission that she keeps weapons all round her house when she has three young children is disturbing to say the least. I do wonder what the people in her community would think if they knew what she was up to.