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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:
@DS – I believe the honey badger part of the name references this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
I imagine they feel that everything they put out is just so brilliant that they can’t bear to cut any of it. Given the general manospherian track record for poor self-awareness and delusions of grandeur, it certainly fits the pattern.
@ dlouwe
You know, I think that’s exactly the reason. That, and they might also be too lazy to cut anything, in between not doing activism and not doing any activism.
This takes No True MRA to dizzying new heights. They are literally on Elam’s payroll, bro. Like, Tieman is listed as their assistant managing editor, one of AVFM’s few staff titles important enough to exist in real life. You’d actually have better luck claiming that Elam’s left leg isn’t part of AVFM; at least his leg isn’t a regular contributor.
And now, a message from my cat: 0pppppppppppppppppppkkkkkkkkkkkkk,,k
Hey, still makes more sense than Kool-Aid’s desperate denials.
@nparker
I couldn’t stop laughing when I saw that one. It was like they had subconsciously admitted that there was no chance HBB would ever win a lawsuit so they settled for “well… at least we forced them to spend money! That’s a win, right guys?”
@bluecat
Actually, I’m pretty sure it was Kung Fury who, with the help of powerglove-wielding Hackerman and his new partner Triceracop, went back in time to kill the Kung Fuhrer with the help of Odin’s sexy boobs.
@Aunt Alias
Just got home so I was able to take a look. Well, that explains a lot, especially why purple and green are plastered across anything GG related. Also, the fact that these HBB supporters can look at that “piccolo dick” gif and go “yeah, that’s totally not a rape scene at all” is ludicrous.
Oh, and that article ends with a link right back to here, and specifically David’s article on Vivian James:
https://www.wehuntedthemammoth.com/2014/10/25/today-in-gamergate-entitled-manchildren-use-manic-pixel-dream-girl-as-their-shield-again/
Hadn’t read that one!
If brevity is the soul of wit, than I guess MRAs are witless.
Sounds about right to me.
Some honey badgers are also involved with AVFM. The groups aren’t linked apart from that.
Alison and Karen have both said they have nothing to do with AVFM anymore. Paul obviously just kept their names and photos on his website because they are popular.
Is this the MRA version of a zen koan? Or perhaps they’re Schrödinger’s Morons, they both work for and don’t work for AVFM as long as the wave function remains unobserved?
The honey badgers are a separate group.
@ orange tango drinker
Ah, backtracking and goalpost shifting, disguising the terribly obvious hypocrisy in calling others ‘liars’! That’s never been done by MRAs before!
Stop backtracking and goalpost shifting. That may fool your MRA friends, but people exist outside of such groups who are not so willingly thick.
‘Schrodinger’s Morons’- now that’s a name!
in the video, i posted they explain how they are a separate group. Its right at the start of the video.
Aren’t ya goin’ to address the facts stated by about ten comments?
MRAs and other antifeminists have wasted all that money because they don’t stand for anything other than being resentful that other people have choices they don’t want them to have, and because the “leaders” are a bunch of shysters trying to make a living off of doing nothing.
honey badgers are not part of AVFM. They are a separate group, thats all.
@ Antisocialite
The manosphere is basically a collection of scams, really.
That money really could go to better things- doesn’t even have to be charity, even just nice things for oneself. They never cotton onto the fact.
@ orange tango drinker
Nope, sorry- next answer.
Orange tango drinker,
I am “bloody bugger all” to do with the cats that live in my apartment. They are separate animals from me.
why do you think the honey badgers are part of AVFM? its a separate group! Karen and Alison have nothing to do with AVFM anymore!
Cool story, bro.
Oh dear.
Someone’s still at the Kool-Aid.
You havent said WHY you think the honey badgers are part of AVFM
Someone’s missed quite a few comments.
Stop badgering us- ged it? Badger, cos- Honey Badgers- never mind.
We have always been at war with Eastasia!
Right, everyone who isn’t orange-red pepsi inhaler, I’m off for now (its 3:10 in the morning for me! I’m not tired, buuut I will be.)