Janet Bloomfield

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If you were looking for the deceased peace activist Janet Bloomfield,Wikipedia you've landed on an article about her polar opposite who has used "Janet Bloomfield" as a pen name.

Janet Bloomfield, also known as... a hell of a lot of other names. As she appeared on Viceland.[1]
A lunatic Chaplin imitator
and his greatest fans

Nazism
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First as tragedy
Then as farce
Attention #ISISちゃん PLEASE KILL @JustinTrudeau FIRST. He's fucking gay.
—"Deplorable Janet"[2][3]
Women destroy children and men if they are allowed. #WhyWomenShouldNotVote
—"Deplorable Janet"[4][3]
Yes, I'm a Nazi. And how are you? I'm the daughter of a Lebensborn.Wikipedia Grand-daughter of an SS Officer. I'm Aryan by culture and by blood. ... Tall, fit blondes are better than everyone else.
—Janet Bloomfield[5][6][7]

Janet Bloomfield, a.k.a. Andrea Hardie is a straight-up neo-Nazi whose grandfather was an actual Nazi-SS officer by her own account.[5][6][7][8] Bloomfield described her parents during her childhood in Alberta, Canada as "crazy and violent" Seventh Day Adventists whom she feared.[9] Bloomfield is also known as a longtime hoax-generating Internet troll,[10][11][12] and of course she's swallowed a heaping dose of internalized misogyny.[3][13] She formerly wrote for the MRA website A Voice for Men (for which she was the social media director) under the moniker JudgyBitch.[10][14][15] Needless to say, she supported Gamergate, and in very-intellectually-honest fashion posted blatantly-fake quotes attributed to Gamergate's targets like Anita Sarkeesian.[11][12] Bloomfield has argued in favor of her husband beating her under certain hypothetical circumstances.[13]

Hoax websites[edit]

More recently, she's apparently taken to creating hoax websites such as IQfy,[10][16] and AFRU (claims to be "Black-led and Black-owned", which is doubtful to say the least).[17] The sites generate headlines advocating totally super real "social justice causes" like: "Encourage women to smell their poop to be more inclusive to Trans women",[10] and "Why is this a thing? 10 statues that white people just can't stop sexually harassing".[18] In turn, her ideological colleagues at A Voice for Men and elsewhere feign outrage.[10] If you can't counter real arguments made by social justice movements, why not just make shit up instead, after all? And it's well in line with her above-mentioned activity during Gamergate — nothing new under the... sun.

In the case of IQfy, at least some of the site's less objectionable content appears to be plagiarized from other sources. For example: the article "How people used to download games from the radio in the 80s" on IQfy (credited to "Anonymous"),[19] seems to be almost completely identical to a 2014 article that was once published by Kotaku and attributed to Lewis Packwood.[20]

Other domains known to be linked to Bloomfield include Femoid.com ("femoid" being a dehumanizing incel term for a woman), judgybitch.com, and lulz.com; these have previously hosted articles similar to those found on IQfy and Afru.[10]

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References[edit]

  1. (March 13, 2018). "Meet the Woman Opposing Women's Rights to Vote | HATE THY NEIGHBOR". Vice TV.
  2. Deplorable Janet (@infidelchick79); (August 17, 2016). "Attention #ISISちゃん PLEASE KILL @JustinTrudeau FIRST. He's fucking gay. You don't know what that means. It's Ok." Twitter, via the Wayback Machine.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 David Futrelle (August 25, 2016). "JudgyBitch on marital rape, killing Trudeau, and why she thinks white skin is GOLD". We Hunted The Mammoth.
  4. Deplorable Janet (@infidelchick79); (August 24, 2016). "Women destroy children and men if they are allowed. #WhyWomenShouldNotVote" Twitter, via the Wayback Machine.
  5. 5.0 5.1 (February 5, 2017). "Lady MRA Andrea “JudgyBitch” Hardie goes full Nazi. Or does she? ". We Hunted The Mammoth.
  6. 6.0 6.1 "Yes, I’m a Nazi. And how are you?". Fundies Say the Darndest Things.
  7. 7.0 7.1 Janet Bloomfield (February 3, 2017). "Yes, I'm a Nazi. And how are you?". JudgyBitch.
  8. David Futrelle (May 9, 2017). "Andrea “JudgyBitch” Hardie dons Nazi t-shirt in an attempt to prove who the hell knows what". We Hunted The Mammoth.
  9. Whose Side Are You On, Anyway? Meet the women who hate feminism by Lauren McKeon (December 2016) The Walrus.
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 Robyn Pennacchia (June 6, 2022). "Fake 'Woke' Site Dupes Conservatives Desperate To Prove The Left Has Lost It". Wonkette.
  11. 11.0 11.1 David Futrelle (October 6, 2014). "A Voice for Men’s Janet Bloomfield libels Anita Sarkeesian with an obviously fake “screenshot” of a Tweet that never was". We Hunted The Mammoth.
  12. 12.0 12.1 David Futrelle (August 4, 2014 ). "Lying as PR: AVFM’s Janet Bloomfield libels Jessica Valenti — then brags about it". We Hunted The Mammoth.
  13. 13.0 13.1 David Futrelle (May 16, 2016). "Andrea “JudgyBitch” Hardie: If I “provoke” my husband, he should be allowed to beat me". We Hunted The Mammoth.
  14. Amanda Marcotte (November 14, 2014). "Defending Free Speech Does Not Mean Tolerating Harassment". Rewire News Group.
  15. Katie McDonough (August 12, 2014). "Meet the women of the men's rights movement: Why they see feminism as a 'personality disorder'". Salon.
  16. (January 27, 2023). "Fake screenshot attributes article on vaccine risks to UK professor". Agence France-Presse.
  17. "Is your child becoming far-right? 11 early radicalization signs". Afru, via archive.today. This article was formerly hosted by IQfy, and now redirects to the version hosted on Afru — the archive.today capture notes this.
  18. "Why is this a thing? 10 statues that white people just can’t stop sexually harassing". Afru, via archive.today.
  19. "How people used to download games from the radio in the 80s". IQfy, via archive.today.
  20. Lewis Packwood (October 13, 2014). "How People Used to Download Games From the Radio". Kotaku, via the Wayback Machine.