Not surprisingly, the Women Against Feminism campaign was originated by Janet Bloomfield, aka “Judgy Bitch”, the “Social Media Director” for Paul Elam’s A Voice for Men. Yes, that Paul Elam. By the way, since it is October, it is for the fifth year, Bash A Violent Bitch Month over at AVfM (archived):
This year’s lovely thoughts from Paul can be found here.
Anyway, more about Janet “Judgy Bitch” Bloomfield:
She has been suspended from Twitter more than once for harassment. She made up quotes, attributed them to feminist Jessica Valenti, and then bragged about it on her blog:
Where in your links does it say she originated the campaign? According to Wikipedia it is a grassroot movement which began in July 2013 as a response to the Who Needs Feminism campaign. In any case, why do you think it makes any difference who were first? It clearly is not a movement with any structure or collective ideology. Just a bunch of individuals expressing their displeasure with something.
Sorry, the “do not link” feature I was playing with screwed up my cites. It is in her bio on AVfM. Here’s an outside source:
The question was asked in the OP.
Bloomfield is in charge of social media for AVfM. It’s laughable to try to claim it’s not something that was planned as PR for a collective ideology. Are you saying that feminism is a monolith, but anti-feminism is “just a bunch of individuals expressing their displeasure”? (I know that’s what the OP would like us to accept - at the same time he keeps parroting the exact talking points from these anti-feminists and MRAs he says he is barely familiar with, just as those “individual women” do on that tumblr).
If it doesn’t “make a difference”, then WTF is the point of this thread? (as if it isn’t obvious it’s just another anti-feminist witnessing thread).
Obviously neither are a monolith. Women Against Feminism are not really a movement either any more than for instance Free the Nipple or whatever else is the silly Twitter/Tumbler drama du jour. It’s just something invented up by underpaid and overworked interns posing as journalists for various media outlets looking for cheap clicks. The life of all these “campaigns” have negligible life and influence outside their incestuous Twitter-Tumbler-Facebook conglomerate. It’s just shit and giggles but nobody really gives a shit about it.
No the question posed in the OP was who “Who are these people?" – the correct answer to that is not: Janet Bloomfield and her minions.
You’re not getting it. Women Against Feminism is a PR campaign started by the MRA/Anti-feminist movement.
If neither feminism nor antifeminism/MRA are monolith, then why are all feminists being smeared by the OP for the words and actions of any self identified feminist individual he can dig up on the internet?
Can’t have it both ways. If he’s going to cite a Sharon Osbourne video or Jezebel article as if it represents me, then I’m going to come back with some of the crap from his fellow anti-feminists and expect him to own it too. Especially since he is parroting the same talking points as most of these people, whereas most of us feminists here do not even agree with the social media radfem agenda.
Frankly, I don’t think a debate or discussion is what the OP is after. It would appear he’s running a campaign of his own.
That is exactly the answer, and I provided the cites. What informs your opinion?
Bloomfield organized the campaign. She actually has minions (i.e., followers on social media). They engage in social media campaigns and descend on article comments sections en masse whenever this topic comes up. This is how it’s played.
You’re being awfully naive here if you’re seriously suggesting it’s just a bunch of random individuals with no organized agenda.
Perhaps Janet Bloomfield is guilty of Aggravated Political Incorrectness. I am not going to judge.
But what counts with me is that she spoke up for men who are abused and against vilification of men in the media. Most men are afraid to speak up. Yes, sometimes I speak on these issues, but I keep low profile out of fear. Janet Bloomfield has much more courage then the vast majority of people.
So Bloomfield is all pissy that a woman wrote that "abortion shouldn’t be rare " (jb called it “charming”) but also thinks it should be a felony to give birth if the baby daddy doesn’t affirmatively consent?
The Pit is full of thousands of mansults – which is the norm. One gendered insult toward women is seen as terrible. Our society is saturated with male – bashing.
For instance if someone published like this about women, they would be blacklisted from all jobs. But Chronicle of Higher Education published this about men.
From someone who thinks a caricature of a feminist (Tanya Cohen) is the secret voice of all progressives and that Joshua Goldberg is “an advocate for Free Speech” - yeah I’ll take your opinion under advisement. Btw- the contributors to AVFM- all blacklisted right? Far nastier than what you just linked - so clearly, they’ve all been thoroughly silenced?
Once again I am not an expert – I guess some of them have jobs. But no offline media would publish them.
Janet Bloomfield stands up for men who are constantly vilified by mainstream media and for men who are abused and have no help. I would be scared to keep a high profile on these issues.