It’s been a while since we last checked up on Andrea Hardie, a.k.a. Janet Bloomfield, a.k.a. JudgyBitch, the Men’s Rights Twitter Activist who’s still activisting it up on Twitter … despite being permabanned from Twitter.
So what’s this uncharacteristically impolite Canadian been up to?
Well, she’s still trying to get her #WhyWomenShouldNotVote hashtag to happen. (It’s not going to happen.)
Now she apparently thinks that women shouldn’t be educated either, a rather strange opinion for a woman who continually boasts about how many feminist books she allegedly read in grad school.
For a woman who opposes women’s suffrage, Hardie has a lot of very strong opinions about politics.
Hardie, whose Twitter avatar sports a little Trump badge, has especially strong feelings about American politics.
For a woman convinced that “no important choice should be made by a woman,” she certainly spends a lot of time trying to convince people that her choice for president in a country she doesn’t even live in is the best choice.
But, hey, she’s not like other women.
Hardie also has a lot of opinions about Sweden.
Wait WHAT!?
Is she actually suggesting that the only, er, “solution” to the migrant “problem” in Sweden is for Swedish men to literally murder “each and every migrant?”
Given that Hardie has previously threatened to kill any feminists who might show up at her doorstep by shooting them in the face with her crossbow, I’m going to assume she does indeed mean that Swedish men should start systematically murdering all migrants — men, women, and children. A sort of “final solution” to the migrant “problem,” if you will.
Yep. It seems that Hardie, who used to enjoy leveling unfounded charges of racism at all white feminists (including imaginary feminists in cartoons drawn by antifeminists), has now gone all white supremacist on us. Now the only “racism” she’s concerned about is racism against the poor beleaguered white race.
In addition to giving white folks credit for creating civilization, ending the slave trade, and having most of the talent in the world, Hardie wants to make sure we know that a white person invented the chocolate chip cookie!
Not just a white person but a white LADY. Apparently her whiteness triumphed over her femaleness and she actually had an idea that was good.
In addition to trumpeting the alleged superiority of the white race, Hardie — following in the footsteps of her idol Milo Yiannopoulos — has also started tentitively aligning herself with the Alt-Nazis of the Alt Right. Consider her awful response to this awful meme:
But even as she embraces — sort of — this trendy new label, she doesn’t quite seem to understand exactly what her new friends believe. She’s not quite sold on that whole Holocaust denial thing, for example.
But, hey, cut her some slack! She’s still a bit of a newbie when it comes to the whole white supremacism thing.
Apparently embracing a neo-Nazi movement because all the cool kids are doing it is a bit more complicated than you might think.
@skiriki
Yup. 16% of our population are first generation immigrants, and the biggest group is from Finland, followed by Iraq, and then Poland. Some of the other larger immigrant populations are white people from Bosnia and Germany. The racists never mention that part.
Imaginary Petal:
Exactly.
And when our native racists complain about (not-pale pink) people coming to Finland to “look for a cushy life and escape sucky economy”, they never happen to recall the wave of Finns moving 1950s-1970s to Sweden and USA… in search of jobs, and escaping sucky economy. FFS, assholes. Consistency is not racists’ strong suit, really, but their dim brain-bulb is still bright enough to realize that saying something about US being better (and thus “allowed” to do that) than THEM is going to get them in hot water.
@Freemage
The ultra conservatives of the Internet seem like the ultra conservatives in real life in that way. They reject most of the information out there and only accept a small amount, especially if it is filtered by a pundit or demagogue. They dismiss all other information because they think it’s part of a conspiracy against them.
With “conventional” Republicans, you have people who inundate themselves with Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, the usual clowns. These pundits tend to cite bogus studies that either never took place or came from think tanks. When you point out the actual facts and the actual studies, they protest, “It’s against my worldview!” or something like that.
With the “alt right” crawling all over the Internet, it’s the same principle. These people take their information filtered by pundits like Thunderf00t, Sargon, Davis Aurini, Vox Day etc. Bring up actual studies or academic literature and they reject it as “biased” or claim academia is part of the cultural Marxist conspiracy. The same applies to fascists as well, who only filter information from the few books and sources that agree with them.
As we’ve seen before, some of the “alt right” salivates over Oswald Spengler, but here is a quote from the man that really applies to them.
Her grandfather was an SS officer. Her father was a tiny, broken man who terrorized his children. But it’s her bitch mother’s fault. Seriously, this post instructed me that this woman is intelligent (she is, that’s not up for debate), interested in ideas reaching a world larger than her nowhere town in Canada, and as fucked in the head as 2 generations of post-WW2 era German religious freaks can make a person.
http://judgybitch.com/2015/06/21/repost-for-fathers-day-first-i-feared-him-then-i-loathed-him-then-i-forgave-him-and-now-i-take-care-of-him-the-story-of-my-father-and-me/
I can’t help but wonder why she always chooses such mean-looking photos of herself as her profile pictures. Was she the ‘mean girl’ in high school and is still really proud of that or something?
I have to admit, out of all of these awful people the FeMRAs are the ones that actually scare me the most. While I don’t think it’s an acceptable way to handle it, I can at least understand that feeling rejected by or having a bad experience with women could make a naive or grieving man use anti-feminism to make himself feel better. But for these women, that isn’t the most likely source of their motivation for joining, so I really don’t understand it on any level. It comes from somewhere much deeper and to me, more frightening. They actually hate who they are on some level.
Being women themselves, they also are much better at finding clever ways to get under other women’s skin; they know more about our insecurities. Some of JB’s comments really get to me, so much more than hearing “feminists are ugly fatties” for the millionth from a Male MRA. They’re so much more vicious and so much more disturbing. Yes, I think they might have been Mean Girls that never grew up. (I personally found female bullies much harder to deal with in school.) Who knows? I’ll never understand people this hateful. She clearly wants to come off as a tough/cool girl. Can women suffer from toxic masculinity??
Oh dear, brace for a new round of same ol’ shit from the Usual Suspects: http://www.cracked.com/article_23874_6-insane-ways-people-were-trolled-in-war-time.html
Heeey, you can fuck right off with that. 🙂
Try using something more opaque, like “Arena Diehard”.
@PoM
You’re right, I actually forgot that she wasn’t a US citizen. I take back my judgement or her whole ‘I’m not voting’.
@Kuda Bux
That was an interesting read, certainly explaining where she got so many of her noxious views (particularly about women). Just like so many MRAs, it’s a ‘This one woman was a terrible person to me so therefore all women are terrible people’ bullshit. If what’s she’s saying is true, then yeesh, I almost feel sorry for her. Childhood abuse is nothing I would wish on anyone.
But even if her mother is an absolutely terrible human being, insulting her based on her gender is not acceptable. Neither is trying to say whether or not she is ‘fucked in the head’ (you should read the comment policy, abelism is not at all acceptable here). In general, I’d be wary of drawing attention to her gender as a means of criticism*. It really has no bearing on who she is as a person. She’s a sexist douchebag, a gross misogynist and a constant liar. Treat her no differently than you would the likes of Roosh, Matt Forney, Paul Elam, GWW or other equally despicable human beings.
*The only acceptable criticism that involves her gender, IMO, is ‘why is does she hate her own gender?’ (Denial? self-loathing? I’m-the-cool-girl?). Beyond that, we get onto a slippery slope that will lead to an ugly place.
@PI
OMG I’m so stealing that gif. In return, here’s my favorite piece of fan-created Undertale content. Gawd, I nearly tear up every time I think of Sans expressing his disappointment, ‘I guess this means we we never really friends to begin with’
@Skiriki
No, she’s not exactly missing anything of the sort. Not if you can hear her dog whistle, at least. See, in Rightwinglish, “(im)migrant” is a term reserved solely for PoC. White people who originate from another country are termed “expatriates” if they are still citizens there, and allowed to become unmarked if they naturalize.
@Nentuaby
The problem is that they like to use accurate statistics such as “16% of Sweden’s population was born abroad” while wrongly implying those are all muslims from the Middle East or Africa.
@Three Snakes
Honestly, I don’t care much if they really believe what they are saying. Either they really are Reactionaries, or they are people who are willing to join a hatemongering cause “ironically” just for the fun of bullying people. In either case, they have serious lack of empathy and like harassing others for fun. So to me the distinction isn’t that important, I think they are all assholes. GG is a great example, you can tell that a large majority of them don’t play games and barely understand the issues of GG, but just like hopping onboard the hate train. Of course, what they all have in common is that most of them are cowards that hide their loathesome behavior with internet anonymity. They also can use the internet, as you mentioned, to make fake account and make it seem like there are more of them. Some are very good at what they do. I see them all as bullies, and sadly I don’t think there is any shortage of bullies in the world. People have just become better at getting away with it.
Nentuaby:
Yah, what IP said. Our local racists are very fond of doing things to statistics and willfully reading them wrong, for example.
Fair enough. I guess what my comment goes down to then is “she’s not ignorant, she’s willfully misconstruing.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s not entirely correct, there’s quite a bit of anti-immigrant sentiment directed at Eastern Europeans in Sweden.
I haven’t read the comments yet, so if I’m repeating someone/everyone, I apologize.
I’m particularly struck by Sue!’s tweet (next to the pic of the blue-haired young woman who allegedly didn’t get asked to the prom) under #FeminismIsCancer:
Sue! Sue! Sue! Who is the white MAN who invented cancer? Because I’d like to send HIM a few sharply worded tweets!
I’m a pacifist, so I eschew the crossbow favored by Andrea Hardie, the esteemed public intellectual who sticks strictly to her kitchen, where she tweets furiously to the world about her superiority to lesser women. (C’mon Andrea, you’re just like every other woman: you know you’ve just got to bed a refugee! I promise not to tell your husband. By the way, your professor-husband is TOTALLY COOL with your flirtation with Nazism? His reputation at the university will be IN NO WAY DAMAGED?)
Excuse me, David, are you trying to say that JudgyBitch is supposed to use rational arguments?
That, sir, is for lesser women!
@Freemage
Your assessment of the extreme right on the Internet and social media is very well stated!
I think of these people as the postmodern version of people who write poison pen letters or make obscene phone calls. They enjoy frightening other people–from a safe distance, of course.
@Kuda Bux
It’s entirely possible that Andrea Hardie is intelligent.
But her illogical arguments and her lack of documentation don’t shout intelligence.
Also, if she is intelligent, it’s not the kind I can respect. I respect the intelligence of people who use their brains to help others. She uses her brains as a weapon against others.
I realize that you’re not trying to defend her. I just had to say something about her thinking power, which she obviously prizes. Hey, Andrea, I’m smart too! Big deal! It’s what you do with what you’ve got that matters.
But how are the men of Sweden supposed to hunt down immigrants? Will they ask the people for paperwork proving their citizenship? What if the citizens don’t have their papers on them? “Okay go get your paperwork and come back and you totally better not be lying about being a citizen just so that we don’t kill you, that wouldn’t be cool bro.”
…Oh, I’m receiving word that her idea is, in fact, to have the men of Sweden murder anyone whose skin is not the color of printer paper.
I’d like to propose the existence of a variant of the long-known “crank magnetism” phenomenon (where believers in one flavor of bullshit are vastly moar likely to believe damn near any *other* flavor as well) that I’d suggest calling “shit magnetism”. It’s the observational reality that believing one flavor of toxic nonsense (e.g., MRA) makes it vastly more likely a person will believe a bunch of others (fascism, white supremacism, etc).
Culminating, naturally, in the shit-blackhole otherwise known as NRx.
I’m assuming Kuda Bux was channelling Hardie – in that that’s the sort of thing she would say, and in the language that she’d use.
Andrea Hardie has got to be soul sisters with April Gaede.
//www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/april-gaede
Ugh, this lady is Canadian? I’m so embarrassed. Is she trying to become the Canadian Ann Coulter or something? Because our news networks don’t give that kind of crap air time like AC gets down in the US. She seems hungry for any kind of attention.