Men’s Rights provocateur and bow-hunting enthusiast Janet Bloomfield — a.k.a. JudgyBitch — has not been shy about sharing her fantasies of violent retribution against feminists.
Several months ago, you may recall, she begged her Patreon supporters to send her $800 so she could buy a “beautiful angel of death crossbow with which she could, as she giddily explained, “shoot …Â feminists in the face” if they showed up at her door.
Today, inspired by her colleague Jack Barnes’ threats against me, Bloomfield has reiterated her desire to shoot her enemies dead. In a post on her blog, archived here, she writes
I will kill anyone threatening me or my family. There are no ‘ifs’. …
Show up on my doorstep, and …Â I will take you down with lethal intent. If you survive it will only be because my aim was off, and we have excellent medical care. Think it through, brave warriors.
In this and in her other comments, Bloomfield — a Canadian stay-at-home mother whose real name is Andrea Hardie, as she noted in a recent fundraising appeal — is careful to frame her murderous fantasies as acts she would take in self-defense. Whether or not it is legal for her to shoot someone who rings her doorbell in the face with a crossbow I will leave up to experts in Canadian law.
But she also seems to imply that she would be justified in targeting anyone she thinks is threatening her, whether or not they pose an actual physical threat.
At one point, she appears to imply that doxing itself would be enough to justify murder.
Doxing Jack’s daughter is crossing a line, but rest assured that line is there, and I am willing to defend it, with every ounce of my being.
I suspect this will get worse before it gets better, and I promise every brave SJW I can make it far worse than they can even imagine.
And I will.
Threaten me, or my family, and you’re dead.
She also seems to think that whoever launched an alleged letter-writing campaign against her family might deserve death as well. Immediately after one of her announcements of her murderous intentions, Hardie/Bloomfield writes this:
This is perhaps a good time to remind Futrelle and his various psychotic minions, who have recently been engaged in a campaign against me and my family, that the FBI has taken notice, and a process is in motion that has absolutely nothing to do with me. … I cannot discuss any specifics of what went down (at this point in time), and indeed, there are aspects of the case that I don’t even know about, but I will assure Futrelle and his minions that the involvement of the FBI in this matter permits me to easily meet the ‘reasonable person’ standard of self-defence in Canada to justify the use of lethal force.
I’m pretty sure the fact that the FBI is (allegedly) investigating someone does not mean that you have the right to murder that someone with a crossbow. I’m also pretty sure I don’t have any “psychotic minions” or indeed any minions at all.
It’s not quite clear what the alleged “campaign” against her or her family allegedly consisted of, though somehow she thinks I am in the thick of it.
Using private email, I informed Futrelle about the campaign against me and my family, the involvement of the FBI and the use of his name. Should Futrelle be foolish enough to deny that, I will publish those emails.
Really? I’ll save you the trouble. Here are two of the three emails in question:
I have redacted the name of the person Hardie/Bloomfield thinks was responsible for the letter-writing campaign, as well as the name of Hardie/Bloomfield’s husband.
She sent a followup note with a few more details about the alleged letter-writing campaign; since she says now that she “cannot discuss any specifics of what went down” I won’t post that email.
I did not respond to that followup note, as I generally try to keep my interactions with bow-hunting enthusiasts who hate me to a minimum.
In case there is any doubt: if someone wrote threatening letters to Hardie/Bloomfield and/or her family, that’s sleazy and disgusting and wrong. But I have no idea what happened, if anything actually did, much less who might have been involved.
Given Hardie/Bloomfield’s long track record of deliberate deception, I don’t exactly put much stock in any of her claims about anything. At this point, if she told me the sky was blue I would have to get confirmation of that from someone else before I believed it.
I should add that Hardie/Bloomfield’s alleged outrage about the doxing of her A Voice for Men colleague Jack Barnes rings a bit hollow, given that she has been an enthusiastic doxer herself, at one point proudly revealing the identities of several until-then-unknown women vaguely connected to a woman AVFM was targeting for harassment. She has also posted childhood photos of me and my siblings on her blog, apparently pilfered from one of my family members’ Facebook pages, a weird bit of boundary crossing presumably intended to unsettle me.
I can only hope for everyone’s sake that Hardie/Bloomfield’s murderous fantasies remain just that, fantasies.
Here’s what kills me about all this: how often do you hear about someone killing people in the name of feminism? How common is it for a woman to go shoot up a fraternity house? How many instances of dangerous and apparently unstable people threatening to hunt down and harm MRAs and misogynists compared to the transverse?
I’m not saying it’s never happened, but I cannot think of a single instance of feminists initiating violence against anti-feminists. I can think of numerous instances of violence against women and feminists off the top of my head.
It beggars belief that Barnes or Bloomfield truly feel threatened or actually believe their doxxing had anything to do with David.
Yeah, that’s not how Canadian law works. Regarding self-defence, the legal standard for force used is “reasonable in the circumstances”. Shooting someone with a crossbow because they rang your doorbell, you’re going to jail. Also, force is only justifiable if you are in actual and immediate danger. Attacking a currently nonviolent individual based on them having previously made credible threats against you, again, you’re going to jail.
How about we honor the Jews and finally stop making everything about white people?
Uhhhh…who the hell is Mike Cernovich?
@naira8: One of the proud public faces of gamergate
chaltab, MRAs sometimes suggest that some unknown feminist shot antifeminsit gadfly Erin Pizzey’s dog, though when it happened Pizzey suggested that it was some of her redneck neighbors who probably did it.
And there’s Valerie Solanas, though she seems to have targeted Warhol more out of a personal grudge than for ideological reasons, though with her who knows.
I don’t see a lot of feminists going around talking about shooting people, that’s for sure.
Oh, I wasn’t able to find any press coverage of the alleged letter writing campaign. This doesn’t prove it didn’t happen, but it means that our only source of information about it is a woman who’s pretty notorious for lying about feminists.
Mike Cernovich, associate producer of The Red Pill.
Is it “accuse David and his minions” week or something? Are they on a Halloween candy sugar high? Wtf?
Oh, they actually think alluding to what they will do if we do a think we won’t do will scare us out of… existing? Internet’ing while feminist?
I’m seriously asking, what is their goal here? Am I supposed to sign off, walk away and quake in my boots cuz some Canadian said she’d shoot me with a crossbow if I showed up on her doorstep? Cuz, uh, seeing as how I have no intention of doing that, I’m gonna fall back on pointing and laughing.
And, uh, the FBI is investigating… so they’ve replied to the report you can file online in like 15 minutes? Cuz filling out the form to report something doesn’t mean it didn’t go straight into a database of “not our problem currently”.
TRIGGER WARNING: discussion of child sexual abuse
Seeing as how I had the wonderful fun of being involved in reporting an ex for violating his sex offender probation in a rather large way, let me give my fun times with the FBI story! Note to concerned mammothers, afaik he didn’t hurt anyone after the one he got arrested for. But I never heard back, never saw him rearrested. Basically, they can’t be arsed to deal with one offender trolling online for a new victim to groom. Which is, you know, kinda their job. Either they quietly checked his internet history and found he was all talk, or they never investigated at all. And that’s a proper credible threat, a letter writing campaign, not so much so. As for why he got to keep a computer — well, even if you’re arrested for sexual abuse of a minor, they won’t destroy your career as a network admin (this may have to do with his daddy being a lawyer)
In short, why yes, I am bitter about the FBI’s inability to do their job, and thus seriously doubtful they give two shits about this. Or anything short of multiple victims of serious felonies really. Or, you know, anything. I’m gonna go be bitter elsewhere.
Oh, of course. Of course he is.
I was just talking about this with a friend today; I could go Ranty McRanterson, but I won’t.
The gist of my beef with stuff like Cernovich’s comment is that Jews and the Holocaust are a convenient prop for some people. They use it as a supporting character in their own drama and it is friggin’ dehumanizing.
Off topic: WWTH, is that the woman that played young Mystique? (Did I mention I watched the X-Men movies with James McAvoy a few too many times?)
Argenti,
It’s Charisma Carpenter. She played Cordelia in Buffy and Angel. I don’t know if she was in those X-Men movies because I haven’t seen them.
Do you think she legitimately is under the delusion that a feminist is going to go attack her family, or is that just an excuse to make violemt threats against feminists? And honestly, ehy would a woman hate other women like that anyway?
Oh you meant the Jennifer Lawrence gif. I forgot I posted that! I’m tired today.
@Argenti – harassers / abusers / hate group tend to focus on demonizing one person obsessively like this in my experience. One person has a problem with what they said, usually because they have shown some strong opposition (ie Anita makes a video that fucks with their ability to deny sexism in gaming), and suddenly the horde gets all fired up.
Oh, for fuck’s sake. I’m going to ask my lawyer friend about the specifics of this, but I can assure you there is no way in hell you would get away with shooting an unarmed person just for ringing your doorbell in Canada. If they broke in or showed up with a gun, different story.
I can only guess that this woman is confused (or being deliberately obtuse) about how case law works and thinks that the vagueness of the legislation around self-defence means that judges get to just make shit up, or that anything goes.
No feminist is going to come to her house to harm her. However if she is truly having issues with understanding reality and if she is full of paranoid fear, she could easily assume an innocent woman – ie a canvasser – is some sort of threat. She wouldnt get away with it, Im confident of that, but she could actuslly hurt someone if she becomes that far gone. Her threats should be taken seriously imho. Probsbly the best thing we could do, I think, is discourage people from interacting with her at all? Unfortunstely she deliberately seeks out people to harass (I think she is banned now But she harassed someome just for being a rape victim opposing rape on twitter), and people like David here are sort of forced to respond sometimes just to protect themselves.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/self-defence-what-s-acceptable-under-canadian-law-1.1229180
So, I’ve been commenting here for a while now, and I’m a little personally hurt that I haven’t been invited the Secret Meetings where we discuss how to dox and destroy the lives of our opponents. C’mon, I can bring cookies!
In all seriousness: yes, this. I also don’t believe anything JB says, but what she’s alleging is a shitty thing to do. Doxxing is only really effective as a harassment technique; harassment is bad and illegal. Writing letters to people’s employers is probably both ineffective and immoral (this might depend on circumstances, but I’d apply a pretty high standard and I while JB is a horrible person that says horrible things, trying to get her husband fired for it is itself a horrible and pointless thing to do.) Making threats is illegal and never something I’d condone.
The fact that David and the commenters here have consistently been against doxxing and harassment of anyone, even MRAs, is one of the reasons that I’ve kept reading this blog. If David or his “minions” started advocating this, I’d leave.
I have no idea how anyone could read this blog and think that it’s a haven for malicious doxxers and harassment. Oh, right. Projection.
Don’t flatter yourself, JB.
For people who regularly scream about the life-ruining consequences of false accusations, they sure do falsely accuse a lot.
That’s what I was thinking TBH.
WWTH — yep, that’s her then. And if you can watch it free, watch Days of Future Past. I really like McAvoy’s take on Charles Xavier. Not sure it’d be worth renting if you aren’t an X-Men fan, but I am psych’ed for Victor Frankenstein cuz damn can he act. (He’s also quite easy on the eyes!)
I like how the standard response MRAs – male and female – have to any stimulus is either:
1. Rape
2. Kill
3. Threaten
Nice, well-adjusted people, aren’t they?
Does she have a mental illness? The FBI? Really?
It seems there a fantasy world going on in her brain.
Whether she has a mental illness or not doesn’t seem to be relevant to the conversation; lots of people have mental illnesses and don’t randomly threaten imaginary strangers.
Threatens to murder anyone who says hello to her… calls feminists “psychotic”