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The ongoing tragicomedy that is the Honey Badger Brigade’s Calgary Expo lawsuit continues to get even more tragicomical! Well, not so much the “tragic” bit, just that “comical” part.
The last time we checked in with the Brigade — that GamerGate-loving, feminist-hating gang of mostly lady YouTube blabbers — they had filed some sort of legal document charging the people in charge of the Calgary Expo with some kind of bad wrongness for tossing them out of the aforementioned Calgary Expo back in April.
They also charged The Mary Sue, a website in the United States that actually has no power over the staff of any expos in Calgary or indeed anywhere else in Canada, with somehow contributing to or causing the expulsion.
Well, The Mary Sue has responded to the Brigade’s legal filing, and the response is a doozy. Happily, the Honey Badgers have put it online for us all to enjoy.
The Mary Sue’s lawyer begins by pointing out that they are — ahem! — headquartered in New York, which is pretty clearly not located in Alberta, Canada, where the lawsuit was filed. (I am reliably informed that Canada is actually a whole other country from us.)
Then The Mary Sue’s lawyer gently reminded the court — and, more to the point, the Honey Badgers — that TIME MOVES FORWARD, not backwards, and that an article that appeared after the Honey Badgers were tossed from the Expo could not have caused them to be tossed from the Expo.
In regard to breach of contract, this claim is not just unfounded, but it is simply impossible based on the timeline of events. The Mary Sue could not have induced the Calgary Expo (“the Expo”) to evict Plaintiff because the aforementioned article was published after Plaintiff’s eviction.
Yep. Apparently the Honey Badger’s fancy disbarred lawyer got the dates mixed up. But hey, the law isn’t about these little details.
There’s more to The Mary Sue’s response, but that’s pretty much the best bit, in this Time-Space continuum at least.
Yesterday, Hannah Wallen of the Honey Badgers — she’s the one who isn’t Karen Straughan or Alison Tieman — posted their official response to the Mary Sue’s letter. It did not mention what we can only call the Honey Badger Time Paradox, but instead tried to distract readers with some new charges against the dastardly Mary Sue.
Mary Sue claims a lack of involvement in Calgary Expo’s choice to expel the Honey Badgers from the event. However, in response to questions on twitter following our expulsion, the expo’s staff referenced The Mary Sue’s article about the event.
Ok, but the Mary Sue article was published after the expulsion, so it could not have caused the expulsion.
The Mary Sue’s prior and existing relationship with Calgary Expo is further demonstrated by an April 15th article promoting the Mary Sue sponsored cosplay contest which was to take place at the event.
Ok, but the Mary Sue article was published after the expulsion, so it could not have caused the expulsion.
Mary Sue weekend editor Sam Maggs was the first person to respond to Britany le Blanc’s first tweet objecting to “MRAs in the audience” at the women into comics panel.
Ok, but the Mary Sue article was published after the expulsion, so it could not have caused the expulsion.
Sorry, Ms. Wallen, but your little sleight of hand is no more effective than this dude’s not-quite-flawless disappearing act.
Just a reminder: the Honey Badgers raised more than $30,000 to cover the legal costs of their patently ludicrous lawsuit.
In my last post I noted that
MRAs and other antifeminists … have wasted literally hundreds of thousands of dollars on causes and projects and people that have pissed away their money without accomplishing anything of value … .
This would be one of those causes.
If you’ve got money burning a hole in your wallet, here’s a much better option:
I bet they’re bringing it up again so they can satisfy the donators that have pissed their money away AND likely start another drive for “legal fees”.
Especially the “legal fees” part.
Gee, ever think you’re in the wrong line of work that these idiots can get 30,000 dollars and I can’t even afford to buy my child a Santa present? Yeah….
I’m surprised the Mary Sue didn’t just send a picture of a middle finger to the Honey Badgers, but legal slapdowns are JUST as fun to read. 😀
I get the impression that they’re just not that bright.
I mean, it almost feels like punching down, but it’s really more like simply blocking the blows of a drastically physically weaker opponent rather than striking back.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: 99% of right-wing claims can only be explained with time machines and/or wizards.
And the other 1% can’t be explained at all.
Having been at the expo, heck, having been at the very panel they tried to disrupt and then tried to talk to the panelists afterwards, their continued failure continues to amuse me to no end.
Maybe they’ll ask for more donations so they can purchase/build an effective time machine. I mean this is definitely a lead up to asking for more donations. They’ll need to hire a disbarred American lawyer so they can file a lawsuit in New York.
So these people believe that anyone who criticizes them must be colluding in some feminist illuminati conspiracy to destroy MRA’s?
Need $30,000 for legal fees.
Also need $17,000,000,000 for time machine.
Explain later.
/HBB
It’s there any chance that they saw the Mary Sue logo (a woman) and the Expo logo (also a woman – in a cowboy hat, natch), got them confused, and the rest has all been an attempt to save face?
Somebody explain to me who the Honey Badgers are. I’m confused. What do they actually do? Are they religious? Why are a bunch of women trying to defend an anti-woman organization?
Now, I know we don’t bring up appearances on this site but just this once I must make an exception. Let’s just say they’re not exactly the Swedish Bikini Team (there – said it). So why are they supporting an organization that expects all women to be perfect 10s, barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen, all while being traditional housewives who bring lots of white children to the world and go to church?
I read one article on ROK which said male feminists were like black men in the KKK. I think that description describes the Honey Badgers better.
Somebody enlighten me please. I don’t think I could read any of their material without my head exploding.
(And I promise not to bring up appearance again)
So I guess that disbarred lawyer just isn’t working out all that well for them, eh?
In the meantime, said disbarred lawyer is laughing all the way to the bank with the money he’s making off the donations of MRAs desperate for “”””justice”””” and “”””ethics in gaming journalism”””” while at the same time committing legal malpractice. Or he would, if he were a member of the Bar.
As it stands, I can’t tell if he’s engaging in unauthorized practice of the law or just a genius at diverting currency from hate groups. Either way, where is my popcorn?
off topic, I’d just like to save this here for the next time MRA’s try to claim that there are no shelters helping the menz.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/kentucky-shelter-tosses-out-all-women-days-before-holidays-because-they-tempt-men-with-ungodly-sex/comments/
http://i.imgur.com/AjMeSyH.jpg
GWW and her lawyer gathering evidence (artist’s conception).
One more thing to add to the ever growing list of things that oppress men. Time. Time is misandry. These Honey Badgers are just nobly trying to be allies to men in the struggle against time, which I should also note, cruelly turns young hb10s into old hags who’ve hit the wall.
Owen,
Basically the Honey Badgers are trying to be the cool girls. The special snowflakes who are willing to put up with misogyny. They think it will insulate them from being the target of misogynists themselves. But it doesn’t work. Inevitably they step out of line and the MRAs will turn on them.
We’d have to summon Alan to be sure, but I think you have to actually be a lawyer, or at least represent yourself as one, to be committing any sort of legal malpractice or unauthorized practice of law.
On topic… eh, I’ll gat back to it later. I have cats to pet.
@Owen McLovely
I don’t think you should’ve brought it (looks) up even once. But the Honey Badger Brigade is a group of women and men associated with AVfM. Even though they are, according to their website, pretty much 50% men and 50% women, they’ve come to be known as a feMRA group. What do they do? Same as AVfM: post very long youtube videos and bother people on Twitter.
True story: Back when the Tea Party was the
world’s latest laughingstocknext big thing, I was arguing with one and asked him to give me a full list of the “Crimes” he thought Obama was “Guilty” of.Right at the top? “Influenced Hitler’s rise to power.”
I’m not kidding. Neither was he.
I read the comments on the HBB article because I’m a masochist. But it really seems like some people there really think The Mary Sue is gonna lose this (and then fold).
Kind of the definition of wishful thinking.
Also, I miss the old sign in/commenting system. Just sayin’.
Why build men’s shelters when you can waste money on bogus lawsuits?
@Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
maybe they meant to say “Influenced by Hitler’s rise to power.” It’s not any much better but at least it obeys the laws of physics.
Science: *exists*
Tea Party: what is this shit stop this
@ Scented Fucking Hard Chairs
Oh. My. God.
Obama’s a time traveller?
@ Miss Andry
What?! Wanting people not to be hypocritical is misandric!! Consistency of rhetoric is a feminsits conspiraty!
@Johanna Roberts:
It is my understanding that the most common legal version of that, thanks to British satire magazine Private Eye, is usually given as “We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram“.
I am veeeeeery curious, what do the HBB backers have to say about all this. Are they on board or are they getting a lil’ buyers remorse?
Ok, so I went and satisfied my curiosity by reading the comments. Seems like the general consensus is “MUHAHAHA, OH WE SURE HAVE THEM ON THE ROPES THIS TIME”. So apparently not only are they on board, they actually think HBB have a chance of winning. Oh this is too great, I really hope this ends up in court.
I’ve collected a few of the most hilarious responses:
Anyone wanna figure out if that one is sarcastic? I honestly can’t even tell.
Oh no! Anything but the Christmas bonuses!
Why yes, gamergate, i recommend you bring your army of flying monkeys to the courtroom and enjoy the show.
NO U!
Temporal paradoxes can apparently be explained away because Timezones!
TRIGGER WARNING on the next few for… bizarre discussion of rape jokes… I think?
Wat…
dafuq…
…is this shit?