Not-so-nice white lady Andrea Hardie — perhaps better known on the internet as Janet Bloomfield and/or JudgyBitch — is still ostensibly the Social Media Director of the fading Men’s Rights hate site A Voice for Men.
But with AVFM no longer grabbing the headlines it once, if briefly, did, the attention-seeking Canadian has apparently decided to hitch herself to the hate movement that’s really going places these days — the so-called alt-right, a loose collection of white supremacists, anime Nazis, and cuck-clucking Trump fans who enjoy trolling Twitter with hateful garbage as much as Hardie herself does.
Her latest publicity stunt? An almost gleefully racist Twitter tirade against Beyoncé and her fans as “feral animals” and “thugs.” As the singer’s fans took to Twitter to celebrate the premiere of Bey’s “visual album” LEMONADE, Hardie jumped into the fray with Tweets designed to offend:
UPDATE: Hardie’s Twitter account has evidently been suspended; I will replace the missing tweets with screenshots when I get a minute. Luckily the text remains:
https://twitter.com/andreahardie/status/724329005671915522
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724324980088049668
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724334061645340672
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724375495152939008
When one Puerto Rican woman took offense at her not-very-well-disguised racist language, Hardie cranked the racism up further:
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724340834825605120
Hardie followed up her Twitter tirade with a blog post titled, with her characteristic subtlety, “Beyoncé fans are feral thugs, like her.” In it, Hardie managed to find an excuse to use the word “feral” five times, “thugs” and “thuggish” six times, and “animals” four times. Here she manages to use all three in once sentence:
What I am saying is that #BlackLivesMatter thugs can scream to high heaven they are just frustrated victims of racism, but their actions are those of feral, wild animals.
Beyoncé’s recent, Black-Panther-referencing, Super Bowl performance was “an attack on the police officers of America,” Hardie sniffs. LEMONADE is worse, a sign that Beyoncé has fully “embrace[d] the violent thuggery of #BlackLivesMatter.” And while Beyoncé’s music and music videos won’t
cause anyone to go out and shoot an officer … these thugs are already so inclined, and it sure does provide a nice musical background!
In her blog post, Hardie makes much of the fact that that some women responded to her racist Tweets with threatening language. “When I tweeted to the hashtag #Lemonade asking why Beyoncé was embracing such ugly stereotypes about Black women as feral,” Hardie writes, “a legion of her fans showed up to prove they weren’t feral at all! Good job, ladies!”
Hardie posts screenshots of Tweets in which women offended by her Tweets tell her to “shut up, bitch” and “die slow.” One women, whose account seems to have since been banned, threatens to “slice [her] like a f**ing cheesecake” as well as to do some exceptionally disturbing things to, and with, the penis of Hardie’s father.
While acknowledging that when people on Twitter threaten her, she “threaten[s] them right back,” Hardie for some reason neglects to post screenshots of any of her responses. Here are several of them, which may strike you as a tad feral, animalistic and thuggish themselves.
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724361512337477632
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724360995364323328
As it turns out, Hardie is something of an old hand at threatening Twitter foes with gruesome violence. Apparently she regularly fantasizes about flaying off the skin of her enemies, gouging out their eyes, and/or bolting their heads to cars and doors. Among other things.
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/704798765140434945
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/722851057701941248
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/721528401941671938
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724351278596370433
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724062581242126337
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/720640534520471554
In the interest of keeping this a SFW blog, I will refrain from posting a Tweet in which Hardie pulls out the c-word before threatening to “gouge out [the] eyes” of a woman before stuffing them up her posterior.
I will also refrain from posting a Tweet in which Hardie told another Twitter foe how much she would enjoy “bolting your head to the roof of my car” because Hardie, who regularly affects great concern over being doxxed, included what I presume is her home address in the Tweet.
There are more examples, many more. And she is not shy about threatening people off of Twitter either.
But I think the point is fairly clear. If we were to judge all white women by the Twitter timeline of Andrea Hardie, we would have to conclude that they are feral, animalistic thugs — with a rather vivid imagination when it comes to imagining how they might torture, kill and dismember their foes.
Despite her penchant for floridly violent threats, Hardie — the wife of a Canadian academic — has so far refrained from explicit racial slurs, at least on Twitter.
And while she has occasionally dropped the alt-right buzzword “cuck” — once when referring to me — she hasn’t taken up another alt-right favorite, the racist slur “dindu.” She seems content, at least for now, to stick with racial-slur-substitutes like “feral” and “thug.”
She feels no such compunction about using the word “faggot,” which she trollishly pretends is not the slur that it is.
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/725002783624183810
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724980252338995200
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724974614141612032
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724779983906963457
And these are just from the past 24 hours. I left out the worst one, a crudely sexual bag of insults directed at the excellent @TakedownMRAs
Hardie, while perhaps not the credit to her race that she evidently thinks she is, continues to celebrate (as she has been doing for some time) what she sees as the superiority of “white culture,” or at least the more traditionalist aspects of it.
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724936997530427393
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/720230125896404992
As that last Tweet suggests, Hardie not only apes the rhetoric and the obsessions of the alt-right; she has begun to embrace the label as well.
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/720341351557046279
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/720371775650074625
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/721874795642626048
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/724424450897268737
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/720368776580087808
And then today, this rather inept attempt at blackface.
https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/725026765815615489
I suppose it’s only a matter of time before she starts dressing up as Hitler.
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For more on Hardie’s Twitter meltdown, see Janet Bloomfield Has Racist Twitter Meltdown; Says She Wants to Tweet a Photo of Herself in Blackface on Hail to the Gynocracy, which helped point me to some of the Tweets I used in this post.
If you do check out that post, do some poking around in Hail to the Gynocracy’s archives. The site, which tracks the alt-right and other reactionary doofuses, deserves a lot more attention that it gets.
Yeah, the ‘bolting people’s heads to objects’ thing makes more sense (kinda) when I think of it in the context of crossbow bolts. I was picturing metal nuts and bolts sort of thing, and wondering how on earth one would even go about bolting a head to anything. Maybe with straps?
Scaly Llama, ah, now I understand what you meant. Point taken, and I’ll use “married to” in future.
Daremonai, I used the term “anime Nazis” because it’s actually a pretty good evocation of the sort of alt-righters who’ve kind of arisen from chan culture, /pol/, etc. A lot of them are indeed both Nazis (or pretty close to being Nazis) and anime fans. It’s not meant as a slam against anime fans, just those who are also Nazis.
What’s your issue with the term?
Plus, their avatars are often literally Nazi character from anime. So “eggs and anime Nazis” is parallelismish.
I wonder if she would crack reading those tweets to the faces of the people she’s talking to a la: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/men-read-the-shocking-harassment-female-sports-writers-receive-and-can-barely-hold-back-the-tears/
(ETA: I know those men didn’t write the tweets they’re reading, so it’s not the same. I only mean in that style, having to sit down and tell the person you’re directing that bile toward what you think to their face)
But somehow I doubt she has enough decency to feel shame.
Personally as a self proclaimed anime fan I have no problem with that. The term clearly defines animes and anime fans that are basically into Nazi fetishism.
I understand the term may imply that anime fans are by default fascist bigot clones of the alt right. But I’m positive, perhaps naively that the majority don’t shove nazi propoganda into the fandom and just want to enjoy late night cartoons from an island nation.
That’s not what “Slur” means.
That’s not what “Punching down” means.
I got so curious about what kind of person Andrea Hardie’s husband might be, I couldn’t stop myself from looking him up on Rate My Professors.
(Disclaimer: This is obviously not meant to encourage stalking or harassment in any way.)
These are some things people have been saying about his lectures:
Fucking hell he sounds absolutely UNBEARABLE.
@ bluecat
That particular conviction was ultimately overturned on appeal, on the ground that there wasn’t enough evidence to be sure that it was a real threat rather than a joke. Bit that doesn’t detract from the fact our ‘malicious communications’ laws could cover tweets like those in the article.
You’ve also reminded me of a comment from a judge in a recent case:
As someone pointed out on Twitter, according to twitteraudit only 22% of Hardie’s Twitter followers are “real”. That’s fewer than Dean Esmay.
EDIT: Yay, my score is 100%. :p
Andrea Hardie: 78% fake followers
Dean Esmay: 74% fake followers
Jack Barnes: 80% fake followers
@Oogly
Using the digi crest of bigotry, Andrea joins the other chosen children in their fight to suck any and all joy from the digital world…
I’ve mentioned this before, but if your ideology is just a less calculated version of that spouted by the presumptive nominee for the Republican candidacy for President of these United States, you’re not the alternative right. You’re the right
Also, fuck her for that Pokemon jab!
http://pa1.narvii.com/5819/97ceb24018b1e98563da3175faf4cefd0d69aa86_hq.gif
@ chiomara
There was a similar thing in Ancient Rome. Basically being pale (as a woman) meant you were wealthy enough not to work and you were carried everywhere in a litter.
That changed with Agrapina. She’d been exiled and made to work as a pearl diver. As a result she’d got quite bronzed. She was later released from exile. She was quite a formidable woman (she survived numerous assassination attempts, some by her own son Nero) and became very powerful politically. Not someone to be fucked with and indeed quite admirable in a way.
She wore her tan as a badge of honour and kept it topped up. Pretty soon wealthy Roman women who knew which way the wind was blowing began to emulate her and tans became very fashionable.
Has this douchenozzle ever even been to Toronto? Toronto has had Muslim residents for over a century, so there’s been no ‘invasion’. I’ve lived in Toronto for forty-two years, and there’s always been street harassment from men of all kinds.
@ Alan
Yes – as I recall he lost two jobs over it, and his relationship, even though in the long run he was acquitted. I must say I could identify with him (more at the time than I do now).
The Tweet and the “ill-considered” go together like two things that go together extremely well but produce a horrible result.
A) Nazis, B) Anime fans
One of these things should not (be) like the other.
I reckon Daremonai was reading “Nazi” as an OTT synonym for “angry or petty enforcer of trivial rules” — as in “grammar Nazi”. But I’ve no idea how that would relate to anime.
I think there are just too many disturbing GG/MRA related twitter meltdowns happening at once for me here. This stuff is truly hard to read, and at times impossible to comprehend. So, animals!
http://i668.photobucket.com/albums/vv49/jdawsondude/Random/19d77008.jpg
http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn197/summerstarz69/animal%20activist%20stuff/untitled.jpg
http://i985.photobucket.com/albums/ae338/AlaskanSky/166407398_12e9f928d8.jpg
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm175/MexicoGurl1621/knitted_kitteh.jpg
I don’t know if this is the place, but Judgy’s disturbingly inept attempt at blackface recalls a sight I saw yesterday that rather threw me. She was a black lady with natural hair, wearing red serge coat of a certain cut, with blue trousers and back shoes. I didn’t dare ask if she was making a statement, or was simply unaware of the implication. People today, eh ?
No, Hardie, the definition of Twitter is not “insult or threaten people in 140 characters or less.” Your tweets reveal not only bigotry and petty meanness but also a distinct lack of imagination.
Also… Aww. Lookit the cute little piglet!!!
Yesterday Gawker ran a piece about Alex Jones claiming the CIA funded Beyonce’s project to start a race war. I continue to be flabbergasted by the over-the-top reactions of racists.
I`m sure i’m not the only one reporting her posts. And yet she still has her twitter account . Does nobody who maintains twitter actually care?
This is pissing me off a bit too much.
http://www.funcatpictures.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/funny-cat-pics-you-had-one-job.jpg
http://www.thatcutesite.com/uploads/2011/04/cat_hugging_teddy_hugging_toy.jpg
http://ecdn.funzypics.com/funnypicturesutopia/pics/3/What-Is-This-Small-Mouse-.jpg
http://justcuteanimals.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cute-animals-cat-hugging-cuddling-squirrel-pics.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/znpyErS.jpg
What a disgusting human being.
How the HELL is she not banned from twitter? Some of her tweets are direct threats of violence!
You guys! You can’t post all those adorable pics of cute little animals because it makes me want to google MORE of them, and I am at WORK.