Honey badger (men's rights)
[4][5] Initially some elements of the current two movements coexisted in harmony, each interested in fighting sexism and rewriting traditional gender roles.
[3] Warren Farrell, often considered the intellectual father of the men's rights movement,[7] was a major figure in 1970s second-wave feminism, and served on the board of the New York City National Organization for Women (NOW), one of the leading feminist groups.
Farrell split from NOW after it came out in favor of granting sole child custody to the mother after divorce;[1] he began to believe that feminists were more interested in power than equality.
[6] The Southern Poverty Law Center, which classifies AVfM as a hate group,[6] says that having women that agree with them is critical to defend against claims of misogyny.
[1] The public support of prominent women legitimizes the issues of the men's movement as those of a broad cultural concern.
[11] Janet Bloomfield (her pen name) was born 1979 or 1980[12] in northern Ontario, Canada, into a Seventh-day Adventist family, with three brothers.
[9] Bloomfield went to the University of Western Ontario to study film theory, but after graduation made the conscious decision to become a wife and mother.
[12] In October 2012,[notes 1] she started a blog named JudgyBitch.com with a college friend, writing about how her friends were disdainful of her choice to be a homemaker, and dependent on a man; about how when her parents divorced, her mother was able to win child custody and turn her and her three brothers against their father; and how even her film theory courses taught students to view movies through a feminist filter.
[9] Alison Tieman, also known as "Typhon Blue",[10] lives with her husband in Kelvington, Saskatchewan, Canada, east of Saskatoon.
[6] Tieman became focused on gender equality issues, such as the male-only draft, after returning from an all-girls boarding school at age 15.
[6] She became more interested in men's issues at age 16, when her mother gave her a copy of The Princess at the Window: A New Gender Morality by Donna Laframboise, a critique of contemporary feminism.
[27][28] Brigade members Edwards, Garcia, Kay, Straughan, and Tieman were interviewed in the 2016 documentary film The Red Pill.
[30] In 2017, Straughan, Tieman, and Wallen went to Australia on a Honey Badger "Down Under tour", to promote screenings of The Red Pill there.
Once there we will start distributing the totalitarian message that nerd and gamer culture is… perfectly wonderful just as it is and should be left alone to go it's [sic] own way.The convention booth represented Tieman's "Xenospora" webcomic.
[35][36] Tieman and a male associate were criticized for attending the "Women Into Comics" panel and giving their views as men's rights activists to derail the discussion.
[38] Tieman and the Honey Badger Brigade sued the Calgary Expo and website The Mary Sue, which wrote about the incident,[39] for expelling and allegedly defaming them.
