Last week, semi-professional internet instigator Andrea Hardie treated the world to a rather spectacular Twitter flameout, in which she hurled racist abuse against Beyonce’s allegedly “feral” and “animalistic” fans, and threatened to murder several of them, telling one that “I would love to bolt your ugly face to the roof of my car.”
I wrote about the incident, but amazingly things got even worse after I put up my post, with Hardie stepping up her racist rhetoric, calling blacks “monkeys” and “Jemimas” and, in one case, a “mud faced-f***ot,” as Hail to the Gynocracy reported; she warned one woman that if she did not “kiss my racist ass, bitch … I’ll have you lynched.”
As a result of these and many other blatant violations of Twitter’s rules against harassment and abuse, Hardie — aka Janet Bloomfield, aka JudgyBitch — found herself banned from Twitter.
In a blog post today, she took a page from Pee-wee of Pee-wee’s big adventure and told the world that she meant to do that.
Her explanation? Hey, she was just responding to the terrible Twitterers who decided to attack her en masse one fine day. Declaring that “[t]he only thing that surprise[d] me about [the Twitter suspension] is how long it took,” she explains that
feral Beyonce fans … showed up uninvited in my feed with all manner of death threats. I responded to those threats the same way I respond to every idiot who threatens me with violence: I don’t back down, I double down. I go medieval.
Apparently her notion of going medieval is this: when someone tells her they will “piss on u,” she responds with the most gruesomely and graphically violent threat she can come up with:
In her post today, Hardie complains that in my post about her Twitter tantrum I didn’t include the abusive tweets she was responding to. In fact, I discussed the abuse and quoted the worst threat I saw directed at her, a threat to “slice [Hardie] like a f**ing cheesecake,” which was sent from an account that seems to have vanished.
If she wants me to show other Tweets she was responding to, alas, I can’t, because most of the Tweets in question have been deleted (and in some cases Hardie didn’t even link to them herself).
I don’t know if the accounts themselves have been deleted or suspended or just the Tweets. Indeed, I don’t even know that the Tweets in question ever existed, but I will charitably assume that they did.
I was able to track down one Twitter exchange she responded to:
Hardie responded to the exchange with this graphic threat:
Is this wee darling lad threatening me? He can’t be serious. He’ll look cute flayed and spitted on my lawn.
I’ll assume that Hardie’s tweet is aimed at @whtepwr4life, as the only thing in the original exchange that could reasonably be construed as a threat is his promise to “say hi, next time I’m in town.” But his Tweet is clearly directed at @KingpinPush, not Hardie.
So she responded to an implied threat that wasn’t even directed at her with a graphic threat that was so over-the-top it sounds like it might have come from a serial killer — or perhaps a 14-year-old obsessed with serial killers.
This rather belies Hardie’s continued insistence that she was “responding to abuse in exact measure.”
As for Hardie’s bungled attempt at blackface — because yeah, she did that too — she says that she definitely meant to do a terrible job at it. “Unfortunately,” she writes,
the darkest shade I could find was more Trump than Sambo …
I did an absolutely wretched job applying it, too. I did a very splotchy layer and let it dry and then added another layer on top and did the world’s worst eyeliner and blush and contouring job, and I didn’t blend or use primer so my crow’s feet and all the fine lines on my face were highly visible. I dragged black mascara through my eyebrows, creating a clumpy, horrid mess I didn’t try to shape or frame at all.
Apparently she thinks the best way to look black is to … do your makeup very badly?
I posed to minimize my lips as much as possible and at the same time, try to look ratchet. I tied a do-rag around my hair. I then set the filter to deepen contrast, just to make everything look even worse, and voila! My blackface.
I’ll spare you the visual, which you can find in my previous post in any case. Given her skill at applying orange makeup in an “absolutely wretched” manner, perhaps she could get a job in Donald Trump’s wardrobe and makeup department.
Amazingly, despite all of her racist provocations and abuse, and all her talk of flaying and mangling and bolting people’s heads to the roof of her car, Hardie still insists that she doesn’t “actually have any idea why” she was suspended.
I’m guessing it will be because I responded to 100K people showering my account with abuse with some abuse of my own. The 100K people, who are on the right side of Twitter politics, will not be held accountable. Tweeting me threats of violence and death and just casual abuse will be tolerated because they are attacking the right person, who asked for it, after, by tweeting a picture of herself wearing dark makeup.
Perhaps Twitter takes a remark about “pissing on u” a little bit less seriously than repeated threats to flay people.
Perhaps some of those who sent her threats did have their accounts suspended; it’s hard to tell with all those missing Tweets.
But I will assume, at least for the purpose of argument, that some people sent her threats, that some of these threats were reported, and that some of the reported accounts weren’t suspended even though they genuinely deserved to be suspended.
That sucks. But “not responding to reports of threats and abuse” is pretty typical of Twitter.
Despite the hard work of countless anti-abuse activists, Twitter remains terrible at dealing with abuse and abusers. Hardie is well aware of this fact. Indeed, she took advantage of Twitter’s unwillingnss to rein in abuse for many months with impunity, not only returning to Twitter on a second account after her previous main account was permabanned for abuse, but also engaging in the same sort of abuse that had gotten her banned in the first place.
With more references to “flaying” this time around.
She’s no free speech martyr. She’s a bully whose Twitter account should have been shut down months ago.
Game of Thromes?
they finally released the lyrics to the song!
@numerobis: Am I bad for feeling a slight tremor of relief at knowing she is not on American soil? Of course, that relief was immediately canceled out by the realization, that there are others like her, still living here. So, there’s that I guess.
@calmdown: Okay, I’m not too sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t singing sloths!????
I know! They are cute but they have some sweet harmony going on too! 🙂
Well, she was right about one thing.
I’m not on Twitter, but I take it it really is bad at catching this sort of thing? I usually only hear about the bad stuff.
@Orion :
I hope this is true, because it will make Discworld trolls a lot easier to listen to. I love the City Watch stories, and Detritus is one of my favorite characters ever, but I still instinctively cringe the first time I reach Street Troll dialogue in any given readthrough.
The Great Internet Law of Reciprocity: as long as one person anywhere does anything bad, you are allowed, nay, you are obligated, to be as horrible as possible to as many people as possible in order to point out the hypocrisy of The System.
Can anyone explain me why would she do a very bad black face on purpose? What does she win with that? Why would someone MINIMIZE lips while doing blackface? If she wanted to offend people, why would she do a terrible job at it on purpose? I am so confuse. Go figure.
calmdown and Scildfreja-Both of those versions are better than original. The sloth on is so ADORABLE!! The original one is kinda meh in my opinion. Only the visuals are cool. Now the theme song for Ripper Street. THAT is a theme song. They packed more passion in 30 seconds than they did in the 1 minute and 40 seconds of the Game of Thrones theme.
https://youtu.be/Llx5mjrSVH0
Now on topic. I am so glad she finally got susbended from Twitter. But it is shit that it took her plunging to those depths for them to do it. The stuff she posted is just vile! And are they ever going to ban her?
She is a very silly woman if she thinks her experience proves that Beyonce fans are especially terrible. If she’d tweeted nasty things about Taylor Swift or Harry Styles, she would also get a shit shower. That’s what happens when you go after someone with a fan base of millions.
As for brain bleach, have a finger monkey.
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Sorry, I meant suspended. I just noticed the mistake when the edit window closed. Anyway, have some baby Tassie Devils!!
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I hope this is true, because it will make Discworld trolls a lot easier to listen to.
I’m pretty sure it is true. Pratchett was very British and Ankh-Morpork is a clear analog for pre-industrial London.
Honestly, if she hadn’t said that it was blackface, I would have thought she was mocking white people.
Assuming that she actually meant to do that (seems unlikely) I don’t get it either. It’s one thing to “get it wrong” in a way that looks like an obvious caricature, even if only to people who don’t know what the real thing is like. That’s extremely rude, and somewhat questionable even if you’re mocking a specific person who deserves to be mocked, but at least it makes sense. It’s quite another to get it wrong in a way that almost no one would have any idea unless you told them what it’s supposed to be. That’s just… baffling, and shows that you are too clueless to even know what the stereotypes are.
I continue to be bewildered by this woman. Aside from her ostensible views, isn’t she the opposite of how she claims women should be? I mean, if she were espousing feminist beliefs, but otherwise behaving in the exact same way, wouldn’t she be the epitome of the feminist strawwoman they regularly rail against?
Question for those familiar with gamer culture–I find her graphically violent rhetoric disgusting and disturbing, but am I right that this kind of language is common in live multiperson games? (used to date a guy who played these, and he gave me that impression, but I don’t actually know)
She didn’t mean to flop, she’s clearly backpedaling from the fact that she couldn’t think of smth as easy as chucking on some shoe polish and going for a minstrel look. you’d think for someone who’s gone all otto von Bismarck recently that she’d be the type to go hard. quelle surprise, these 1488 morons might actually be aware of how unrealistic and – dare I say … degenerate – their steel-toed, come-down-to-your-neighborhood-anytime shit is. So much for their stoic warrior front.
@brian
JB: The only way all you (conveniently made cishet) women should be is docile, sweet, charming and subservient to your man. If you’re not exactly what I want you to be you’re automatically trash.
JB: Psych, you’re all pretending to be this way because somehow, I just know half the human race won’t ever need to use morality or people skills in life other than attention-seeking!
She lives in quite the alternate reality.
@guest: I play a lot of multiplayer games, the supposed worst games for this kind of language: League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Source, Call of Dutys 4, 5, 6 and 7.
I would say that graphically violent rhetoric is very rare (I mean out of context of course, in a game about guns a lot of people talk about shooting). I can think of maybe a couple times in 10 years that people in a game have been violently threatening, even as a joke.
Sexism, homophobia and racism are much more common though, but like 4 out of 5 of those are young lads trying too hard to be “edgy” or provoke, they grow out of it.
Even people who use live mics are on the whole pretty good.
JB’s rhetoric strikes me as unusual and disturbing.
Overall in multiplayer most people are too busy playing to start dumb chat arguments. Most common abuse: Calling “Bullshit” on a player with a string of expletives. Most of the Racism/Sexism I see comes from player names in game, people give themselves shitty offensive names.
I just love her insistence on making “go medieval” stick – fitting, since she prob does such a cringe job at today’s vernacular anyway. like you actually wasted your time responding to every bit of hate you got. you didn’t go medieval on their asses, you went overzealously 2edgy4u 14-year-old in the fucking youtube comment section
I think I’ve seen some people crying about “Becky” being a “slur” on fb too, im cackling. This stunning lack of awareness. while the name Jemima indicates the long-standing stereotype of the mammy, reinforcing black servility that still runs its legacy to this very day, what crippling racism does Becky stem from, JB? Starbucks? Hot yoga? Wanting to go out for sushi way too much? Get yourself a smoked butterscotch venti and go cry some more, Beckface.
@guest
Certainly more prevalent than it should be, but by no means universal. Some games, and/or some servers within games, are polite, civil, even charming. Others are awful. That said, I’ve been out of the scene for a while, so most of the games I’d recommend as having friendly cultures have since shut down (City of Heroes, may it rest in peace), or, at least, likely changed enough that I can no longer vouch for them.
On topic: she’s so consistently inept at representing her side that I’d suspect it was an elaborate long prank, except that it’s been such an extended dedication to reputation- and career-ruining dreadfulness that I can’t imagine anyone coming back from that.
Wow… she is like a five-layer dip of dreadful; racism, sexism, homophobia, nonsensical preaching and virulent hate
Oh, and she leaves one with a feeling of regret and indigestion in large doses
I just noticed something. In Hardie’s blog post, she links to an old post she wrote about blackface, years ago, as evidence that she’s not racist.
And, guess what? She’s changed a LOT since 2012/13. The current Hardie would never ever ever ever write anything like this. I’m surprised she’d even link to it, considering the views of her fans.
Sorry for the direct link, but for some reason I can’t make donotlink work right now. :/
http://judgybitch.com/2012/12/03/blackface-nope-its-not-okay-ever/
And here’s something else from Andrea Hardie’s blog post of 2012:
Compare that with her assertion that Beyonce looks like an animal in “Lemonade.”
Devolution! It’s apparently a thing.
So the turnaround from “leftists are the real racists” to “yep, I’m definitely the real racist” is about three years?
Did Janet get replaced by her even more evil twin?
On topic: Weren’t all her other accounts banned, and then she had this one that she didn’t use, so she started to use that one, even though Twitter was like “No, you can’t have another account!”?
So, the only reason she was still on this one was because it was, in a way, under a grandfather clause, right?
SO, I think that means she can’t get another one because Twitter permabanned her before, right? Or am I thinking of someone else who gets frequently banned from twitter for being a boiling puddle of pus?
Off topic: I clicked the next article on HttG’s blog, and holy butternut squash, I’m dying of laughter.
Roosh: “Punish women who don’t want to vote for Trump by not sleeping with them! That’ll show ’em!”
Miss Andry, you owe me a new keyboard. Or does Roosh owe me the keyboard, for saying something so inadvertently hilarious?
I’m going to second Mortarius. The more violent the game, the more aggressive the online chats tend to be.
However, it all depends on who you get in a room with, I find. There are a lot of people out there who don’t tolerate that shit, and for good reason, thankfully.
Of course, it still makes me leery as fuck to get into multiplayer lobbies with people I don’t know.
Yep, she is desperate and she’s finished. Her actions admit it.
So, I guess that Hardie is not so hardy now, eh? I took all me brainpowers to come up with that one so don’t tease me.
Goodnight foul princess. You will not be missed.
Hardie must be a real fun guest at faculty parties. I wonder if she brings her crossbow?
Also, does she know what “feral” means? Does not make much sense as she uses it.