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{{short description|Female men's rights activist}}
{{redirect|Honey Badgers||Honey badger (disambiguation)}}
A '''Honey Badger''', or less often '''FeMRA''' (female men's rights activist), is a woman who publicly supports the [[men's rights movement]], often in opposition to [[feminism]]. Women are estimated as ten percent of the men's rights base.<ref name="MEL"/> Female supporters are among the most prominent men's rights activists and provide breadth and legitimacy to the movement.<ref name="Marie Claire"/><ref name="Fatherly"/>

The term "Honey Badgers" was created to refer to female men's rights activists on the popular men's rights website [[A Voice for Men]], after the [[The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger|viral YouTube video]] about the indomitable and ferocious [[honey badger|small carnivore]].<ref name="Vice"/> Some of these women have joined in a group called the Honey Badger Brigade, which has a website<ref>{{cite web |title=Honey Badger Brigade – Nerds bite back! |url=http://honeybadgerbrigade.com |website=Honey Badger Brigade |accessdate=30 September 2020}}</ref> and [[podcast]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Badger Live Streams – YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcOtHMt1S9Nl4Pycp-FWd8Q/ |publisher=[[YouTube]] |accessdate=30 September 2020}}</ref>

== Women and the men's rights movement ==
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=== 20th century ===
The modern [[men's rights movement]] grew alongside and either out of, or in reaction to, the [[second-wave feminism]] movement of the 1970s.<ref name="Pacific Standard"/><ref name="Mad Men"/> Initially some elements of the current two movements coexisted in harmony, each interested in fighting sexism and rewriting traditional gender roles.<ref name="MEL"/><ref name="Mad Men"/> The [[National Coalition for Men]], a current men's rights group, was founded in 1977 with the goal to "promote awareness of how gender based expectations limit men legally, socially and psychologically"; at first many of its members called themselves "feminist men".<ref name="Vice"/><ref>{{cite web |title=History of the Coalition of Free Men, Inc. (NCFM) {{!}} National Coalition For Men (NCFM) |url=https://ncfm.org/lead-with-us/history/ |publisher=[[National Coalition for Men]] |accessdate=17 September 2020}}</ref> [[Warren Farrell]], often considered the intellectual father of the men's rights movement,<ref name="Bate"/> 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.<ref name="Marie Claire"/><ref name="Mad Men"/>

The movements diverged in later decades. Farrell split from NOW after it came out in favor of granting sole [[child custody]] to the mother after [[divorce]];<ref name="Marie Claire"/> he began to believe that feminists were more interested in power than equality.<ref name="Mad Men"/> His 1993 book ''[[The Myth of Male Power: Why Men are the Disposable Sex]]'' became the foundation of the men's rights movement,<ref name="Vice"/><ref name="Marie Claire"/> writing that women's choices are responsible for the [[gender pay gap]], that men are also the victims of [[domestic violence]], that government programs to benefit women only exacerbate inequality, and that the effect of women's sexual power was greater than any of men's societal advantages.<ref name="Mad Men"/>

Two prominent 20th-century female men's rights activists also started in the 1970s feminist movement before breaking away. [[Erin Pizzey]], an English novelist and anti domestic-violence advocate, was in the UK [[Women's liberation movement in Europe#United Kingdom|Women's Liberation Movement]], and opened [[Refuge (United Kingdom charity)|Refuge]], the first and largest battered women's shelter in England in 1971, before arguing that men also need support, and calling feminism "the Evil Empire".<ref name="Vice"/><ref name="Mother Jones"/> [[Anne Cools]] is a Barbadian-Canadian activist and politician, the first black member and the longest serving member of the Senate of Canada. She founded one of Canada's first battered women's shelters in 1974, before teaching that domestic violence can be from women against men as well, and trying, unsuccessfully, to pass laws ensuring both parents access to children.<ref name="Walrus"/><ref name="Vice"/><ref name="Mother Jones"/>

=== 21st century ===
In 2009, inspired by Farrell's work, Paul Elam founded the website [[A Voice for Men]] (AVfM).<ref name="Vice"/> This became the most popular site of the [[manosphere]], the men's rights movement on the Internet, and he became the unofficial leader of the 21st century men's rights movement.<ref name="Marie Claire"/><ref name="MEL"/><ref name="GQ"/><ref name="Bate"/> The term "Honey Badgers" was started to refer to female men's rights activists on A Voice for Men after the [[The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger|viral YouTube video]] about the indomitable and ferocious small carnivore.<ref name="Vice"/><!-- Vice implies that it was started by Elam himself in 2013. This is incorrect, and we are aware of the specific first use in 2012 at avoiceformen.com/women/to-the-women-that-arent-like-that/#comment-1275480260 but have decided that's not good enough to write in the article until we get a reliable secondary source that confirms it. Please don't add it here without one. See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=980933641 -->

Some of the modern men's rights movement's most prominent activists are women.<ref name="Mother Jones"/><ref name="Vice"/> Movement activists estimate 10 percent of their base are female.<ref name="MEL"/> The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]], which classifies AVfM as a [[hate group]],<ref name="MEL"/> says that having women that agree with them is critical to defend against claims of [[misogyny]].<ref name="Marie Claire"/> The public support of prominent women legitimizes the issues of the men's movement as those of a broad cultural concern.<ref name="Fatherly"/> The first three speakers on the first day of the AVfM sponsored first International Conference on Men's Issues in 2014 were all women, starting with Cools.<ref name="MSNBC">{{cite news |last1=Serwer |first1=Adam |title=Men's rights conference takes aim at feminism |url=http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mens-rights-conference-feminism |accessdate=September 18, 2020 |work=[[MSNBC]] |date=June 28, 2014}}</ref>

== Janet Bloomfield ==
{{redirect-distinguish2|Janet Bloomfield (men’s rights activist)|the British peace and disarmament campaigner [[Janet Bloomfield]]}}
Janet Bloomfield (her [[pen name]]) was born {{birth based on age as of date |37|2017|11|16 |noage=1|mos=1}}<ref name="Newsweek"/> in northern [[Ontario, Canada]], into a [[Seventh-day Adventist]] family, with three brothers.<ref name="Walrus">{{cite news |last1=McKeon |first1=Lauren |title=Whose Side Are You On, Anyway? |url=https://thewalrus.ca/whose-side-are-you-on-anyway/ |accessdate=March 12, 2020 |work=[[The Walrus]] |date=November 16, 2016}}</ref> She grew up on a [[hobby farm]] in a fundamentalist Christian enclave in rural [[Alberta, Canada]].<ref name="Walrus"/><ref name="Newsweek">{{cite news |last1=Hayden |first1=Michael Edison |title=Who are the women of the alt-right movement? |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-women-asked-choose-submission-grow-political-movement-705655 |accessdate=February 18, 2020 |work=[[Newsweek]] |date=November 16, 2017 |language=en}}</ref> Her parents divorced when she was a preteen.<ref name="Walrus"/>

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.<ref name="Walrus"/> She continued to the [[University of Victoria]], both to study for a [[Master of Business Administration]], and to find a husband.<ref name="Walrus"/> She married, had her first child, and became a [[stay-at-home mother]].<ref name="Newsweek"/> In October 2012,{{refn|group=notes|McKeon says Judgy Bitch was launched in April 2013,<ref name="Walrus"/> but since the [[Internet Archive]] has a substantial archive of its content from December 1, 2012,<ref>{{cite web |title=Judgy Bitch (Archive) |url=http://judgybitch.com/ |publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |accessdate=September 10, 2020 |date=December 1, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121201013829/http://judgybitch.com/ |archive-date=December 1, 2012 }}</ref> we are going with the Brook Lynn date of October 2012.<ref name="Vice"/>}} 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. Bloomfield's views became aligned with the online [[Men's rights movement]] (MRM), and in 2013 some of her work was republished on [[A Voice for Men]].<ref name="Vice">{{cite news |last1=Brook Lynn |first1=Alex|title=The Women of the Men's Rights Movement |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8gdd8a/the-women-of-the-mens-rights-movement-804 |accessdate=February 18, 2020 |work=Vice |date=August 4, 2014 |language=en}}</ref>

In 2016, Bloomfield was living in [[Thunder Bay]], Ontario, with her husband, young son, and two daughters. She was the head of social media for A Voice for Men. She supported [[abortion rights]] in the [[first trimester]], and women's right to choose whether to work or stay at home (though believing most would chose to be homemakers). However, she opposed [[women's suffrage|women's right to vote]], writing that women historically made bad decisions, especially on economics, defense, and immigration, while being immune from [[conscription]] and therefore the blood consequences of those decisions. She believed some women could earn the right to vote by having sons, husbands, or serving in the military.<ref name="Walrus"/> Bloomfield was also a prominent supporter of the [[Women Against Feminism]] social media campaign, and said she knew the anonymous founder.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grierson |first1=Jamie |title=Pressure mounts on PM to respond to Philip Davies' 'feminist zealots' comments |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/aug/12/pressure-mounts-on-may-to-respond-to-philip-davies-feminist-zealots-comment |accessdate=September 3, 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=August 12, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Mad Men">{{cite news |last1=Blake |first1=Mariah |title=Mad Men: Inside the men's rights movement—and the army of misogynists and trolls it spawned |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/warren-farrell-mens-rights-movement-feminism-misogyny-trolls/ |accessdate=September 3, 2020 |work=Mother Jones |date=January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Elderkin |first1=Beth |title=Who are the 'Women Against Feminism'? |url=https://www.dailydot.com/irl/women-against-feminism-tumblr/ |accessdate=September 3, 2020 |work=[[The Daily Dot]] |date=3 August 2014}}</ref> She appeared on [[Viceland]], the [[BBC]], the NBC ''[[Today (American TV program)|Today Show]]'' and on the syndicated ''[[The Doctors (talk show)|The Doctors]]''.<ref name="Walrus"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Meet the Woman Opposing Women's Rights to Vote |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2QUk0iESVI |publisher=[[Viceland]] |accessdate=13 March 2020 |date=March 13, 2018}}</ref><ref name="BBC News">{{cite news |title=Meet the 'Women Against Feminism' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-28446617/bbctrending-meet-the-women-against-feminism |accessdate=15 March 2020 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=July 24, 2014 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Kim |first1=Eun Kyung |title=Is feminism still relevant? Some women saying they don't need it |url=https://www.today.com/news/feminism-still-relevant-some-women-saying-they-dont-need-it-1D79996867 |publisher=[[Today (American TV program)|Today]] |accessdate=13 March 2020 |language=en |date=July 30, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=A Female Men's Rights Advocate? |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUfCfQZFv6E |publisher=[[The Doctors (talk show)|The Doctors]] |accessdate=13 March 2020 |date=July 14, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Mother Jones"/> She received numerous death threats, and promised to defend herself with her [[crossbow]].<ref name="Walrus"/>

But in January 2019, Bloomfield retired, closing her blog, and her Twitter and YouTube accounts, writing that she could defend herself, but she could not defend her children who were being stalked and harassed by adults online due to her activism.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bloomfield |first1=Janet |title=Going after my children is too much for me |url=http://judgybitch.com/2019/01/16/going-after-my-children-is-too-much-for-me/ |website=Judgy Bitch |accessdate=3 September 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190120110653/http://judgybitch.com/2019/01/16/going-after-my-children-is-too-much-for-me/ |archivedate=20 January 2019 |date=16 January 2019}}</ref> She allowed many of her articles to be moved to the website FEMoid.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bloomfield |first1=Janet |title=Author: Janet Bloomfield |url=https://femoid.com/author/judgybitch/ |website=FEMoid |accessdate=3 September 2020}}</ref>

== Karen Straughan ==
[[File:Karen Straughan at the Free State Project.jpg|right|thumb|Straughan speaks at the [[Free State Project]] in 2014]]
Karen Straughan is a divorced mother of two boys and a girl, who lives in [[Edmonton]], Alberta.<ref name=Vice/><ref name="Fatherly">{{cite web |last1=Vinopal |first1=Lauren |title="Boys Are Suffering": Why More American Mothers Are Becoming Men's Rights Activists |url=https://www.fatherly.com/love-money/mothers-mens-rights-activists-honey-badgers/ |website=[[Fatherly]] |accessdate=16 March 2020 |date=20 December 2017}}</ref> She was born raised in [[Sherwood Park]], just east of Edmonton, as the youngest of three sisters.<ref name="MEL"/> Her father was a mechanic who taught her to work with her hands, and her mother was a [[tomboy]] who taught her self-sufficiency and treated her wounds after fights.<ref name="MEL">{{cite web |last1=Kohn |first1=Isabelle |title=In the Honey Badger Brigade, Female Men's Rights Activists Fight for Their Version of Equality |url=https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/in-the-honey-badger-brigade-female-mens-rights-activists-fight-for-their-version-of-equality |website=MEL Magazine |accessdate=16 March 2020 |date=14 February 2020}}</ref>

As an adult, Straughan worked as a part-time waitress while writing [[erotic fiction]] for women as a side line (she is self educated and bisexual), and discovered the Men's rights movement when she and other authors decided to [[Internet troll|troll]] a MRM forum, only to find that she agreed with the forum posters.<ref name=Vice/><ref name="Mother Jones">{{cite news |last1=Blake |first1=Mariah |title=The men's rights movement and the women who love it |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/mens-rights-movement-women-who-love-it/ |accessdate=15 March 2020 |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |date=August 11, 2014}}</ref> Another impetus was the inequality of [[child custody]] laws: when Straughan was going through her divorce, she found herself the presumptive custodial parent, and legally unable to waive a [[child support]] order against her ex-husband, and when she started another relationship she found her boyfriend had helped raise a stepdaughter but hadn't been able to see her for eight years.<ref name="Fatherly"/> In 2011, she started a blog, "Owning Your Shit", and a [[YouTube]] channel named "Girl Writes What", where she discussed her views supporting the men's rights movement; in three years her early video "Feminism and the Disposable Male" had over a million views.<ref name="Mother Jones"/><ref name="MEL"/> By 2013, she acted as a spokesperson for Men's Rights Edmonton.<ref name="CBC News">{{cite news |title='Men's rights' group behind sexual assault posters |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/men-s-rights-group-behind-sexual-assault-posters-1.1353362 |accessdate=18 February 2020 |publisher=[[CBC News]] |date=July 10, 2013}}</ref> In 2016, Straughan earned enough from YouTube ads and speaking fees to quit her part-time restaurant job.<ref name="Walrus"/><ref name="Vice"/>

== Alison Tieman ==
[[File:Alison Tieman at Badger Cave.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Tieman in 2018]]
Alison Tieman, also known as "Typhon Blue",<ref name="GQ">{{cite news |last1=Sharlet |first1=Jeff |title=What Kind of Man Joins the Men's Rights Movement? |url=https://www.gq.com/story/mens-rights-activism-the-red-pill |accessdate=17 March 2020 |work=GQ |date=February 4, 2014 |language=en}}</ref> lives with her husband in [[Kelvington, Saskatchewan|Kelvington]], [[Saskatchewan, Canada]], east of [[Saskatoon]].<ref name="Vice"/> She was born in {{birth based on age as of date|37|2015|09|18|noage=1|mos=1}},<ref name="Marie Claire">{{cite news |last1=Ortiz |first1=Jen |title=Hear Them Roar: Meet the Honey Badgers, the Women Behind the Men's Rights Movement |url=https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a15964/honey-badgers-mens-rights-movement/ |accessdate=17 March 2020 |work=[[Marie Claire]] |date=18 September 2015}}</ref> and grew up a feminist, like her mother, who was one of the founders of [[Calgary]]'s first [[Take Back the Night (organization)|Take Back the Night]] marches in 1975.<ref name="MEL"/> Tieman became focused on gender equality issues, such as the male-only [[conscription|draft]], after returning from an all-girls boarding school at age 15.<ref name="MEL"/> 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.<ref name="Marie Claire"/> She began formulating her own theories on gender, which she posted on her blog at genderratic.com. She says she focused more on men, as their voices were not being heard at the time. This drew the attention of Paul Elam, founder of [[A Voice for Men]], who asked her to write for his group.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hawboldt |first1=Adam |title=Verb Magazine (Regina) |url=https://issuu.com/verb/docs/verb_issue_r89_aug_2-8_13/3 |accessdate=9 September 2020 |work=Verb |issue=R89 |date=August 2, 2013 |language=en}}</ref>

In 2013 Tieman acted as the Saskatoon spokesperson for [[A Voice for Men]], defending men's rights posters put up there, mirroring Straughan's role in Edmonton.<ref>{{cite news |title=Anti-feminist posters up in Saskatoon |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/728409/anti-feminist-posters-up-in-saskatoon/ |accessdate=9 September 2020 |work=[[Global News]] |date=July 19, 2013}}</ref> In 2014, Tieman acted as a spokesperson for both AVfM and Men's Rights Canada on multiple occasions.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Daro |first1=Ishmael N. |title=Men's rights activist launch second 'Don't be THAT girl' posters  |url=https://o.canada.com/news/mens-rights-posters-dont-be-that-girl-423582 |accessdate=9 September 2020 |work=[[Postmedia News]] |date=7 April 2014 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ferguson |first1=Michelle |title=Queen's prof targeted by group |url=https://www.thewhig.com/2014/04/09/queens-prof-targeted-by-group/wcm/36d92d50-21d5-5820-b2a3-1397e7df9026 |accessdate=9 September 2020 |work=[[The Kingston Whig-Standard]] |date=9 April 2014}}</ref>

== Honey Badger Brigade ==
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The Honey Badger Brigade is an organized group of honey badgers,<ref name="Marie Claire"/> a female-led and founded organization, though it does have some male members.<ref name="ICMI2019"/> In 2013, three of the women posting on [[A Voice for Men]], Straughan, Tieman, and Hannah Wallen (using pen name Della Burton),<ref name=NCFM>{{cite web |last1=Honey Badger Brigade |title="Can't we all just get along..." men's rights activists should play nice |url=https://ncfm.org/2013/08/news/mens-rights-news/cant-we-all-just-get-along-mens-rights-activists-should-play-nice/ |website=[[National Coalition for Men]] |accessdate=10 September 2020 |date=August 6, 2013}}</ref> founded the Honey Badger Brigade website and Honey Badger Radio [[podcast]].<ref name="Vice"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Team Badger Founding Hosts |url=https://honeybadgerbrigade.com/the-team/ |website=Honey Badger Brigade |accessdate=18 February 2020 |ref=HBB team}}</ref> Tieman was the head of the podcast, and designed the Honey Badger Brigade graphics.<ref name="MEL"/> Bloomfield became a prominent poster on the website.<ref name="Slate">{{cite web |last1=Marcotte |first1=Amanda |title=A Fond Salute to "Honey Badgers," the Ladies' Auxiliary of Online Anti-Feminism |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/09/honey-badgers-misogyny-the-ladies-wing-of-online-anti-feminism.html |website=Slate Magazine |accessdate=18 February 2020 |language=en |date=23 September 2015}}</ref> Other prominent female Honey Badger Brigade members included:
* Rachel Edwards, who wanted to start a Honey Badger Radio spinoff focusing on [[nerd culture]]<ref name="Vice"/><ref name="GQ"/><ref name="Refinery29">{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Kelsey |title=MRA Conference – Men's Rights Issues 2014 |url=https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2014/07/70393/mra-mens-rights-conference |website=[[Refinery29]] |accessdate=10 September 2020 |language=en |date=July 1, 2014}}</ref>
* Kristal Garcia, a black woman from New York City and former sex worker<ref name="Vice"/><ref name="GQ"/><ref name="Refinery29"/>
* Jessica Kenney, also known as Jess Kay, a veterinary assistant and manager of the Facebook page I Don't Need Feminism, who became interested in boys issues after having a son<ref name="Pacific Standard">{{cite news |last1=Bisceglio |first1=Paul |title=This Is What a Men's Rights Activist Looks Like |url=https://psmag.com/social-justice/mens-rights-activist-looks-like-95551 |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=[[Pacific Standard]] |date=December 31, 2014 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="GQ"/><ref name="Refinery29"/><ref name="Vice"/> 
In 2016 Tieman incorporated the group as Honey Badger Brigade, Inc., and became its president.<ref name="ICMI2019"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Honey Badger Brigade Inc. – Kelvington SK Canada |url=https://www.companiesofcanada.com/company/988863-2/honey-badger-brigade-inc |website=www.companiesofcanada.com |accessdate=18 September 2020}}</ref> She was able to quit her part-time job, due to the $10,000 monthly revenue raised by the Honey Badger Radio podcast, which was enough to also pay for two full-time and two part-time staff.<ref name="Walrus"/>

The Honey Badger Brigade continued an association with A Voice for Men: at the first International Conference on Men's Issues, in 2014 in [[Detroit]], organized by AVfM, the Badgers crowdfunded $8000 to fly there as "human shields".<ref name="Mother Jones"/> The 2019 International Conference on Men's Issues was hosted by the Honey Badger Brigade in [[Chicago]].<ref name="ICMI2019">{{cite web |title=International Conference on Men's Issues 2019 |url=http://icmi2019.icmi.info/ |publisher=Honey Badger Brigade |accessdate=11 September 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Woman-Run Men's Rights Conference |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2020-01-13/woman-run-men-s-rights-conference-video |accessdate=11 September 2020 |work=[[Bloomberg News]] |date=January 13, 2020}}</ref>

Brigade members Edwards, Garcia, Kay, Straughan, and Tieman were interviewed in the 2016 documentary film ''[[The Red Pill]]''.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jaye |first1=Cassie |authorlink1=Cassie Jaye |title=Credits: The Red Pill Movie |url=http://theredpillmovie.com/credits/ |website=[[The Red Pill]] |accessdate=10 September 2020}}</ref> Straughan was the most prominent, talking about how men's lives, whether in the military or dangerous jobs, were regarded as more disposable than those of women.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Callaghan |first1=Greg |title=Cassie Jaye's film on the men's rights movement shocked Australia. Why? |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/cassie-jayes-film-on-the-mens-rights-movement-shocked-australia-why-20170726-gxj34p.html |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=28 July 2017 |language=en}}</ref> In 2017, Straughan, Tieman, and Wallen went to Australia on a Honey Badger "Down Under tour", to promote screenings of ''The Red Pill'' there.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Purtill |first1=James |title=Meet the Honey Badgers: Women who say women are oppressing men |url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/meet-the-honey-badgers-who-say-women-are-oppressing-men/8615184 |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=[[Triple J]] |date=13 June 2017 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Australian"/>

=== Expulsion from the Calgary Expo === 
In 2015, the Honey Badger Brigade [[crowdfunded]] $9000 on their website for eight members including Straughan and Tieman to attend the [[Calgary Expo]], with the message:<ref>{{cite web |title=Honey Badger Brigade: Stand up to censorship! |url=http://www.feedthebadger.com/projects/badgers-gone-wild-calgary-expo-style/ |website=Honey Badger Brigade |accessdate=9 September 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507011428/http://www.feedthebadger.com/projects/badgers-gone-wild-calgary-expo-style/ |archivedate=2015-05-07 |date=April 15, 2015}}</ref> {{quote|In April of this year, the Honey Badgers plan to put on a booth at the Calgary Comics and Entertainment Expo! We plan to infiltrate nerd culture cunningly disguised as their own. Each of us has been carefully crafting a persona of nerdiness through decades of dedication to comics, science fiction, fantasy, comedy games and other geekery, waiting for this moment, our moment to slip among the unaware. 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 {{sic|i|t's|nolink=y}} own way.}}

The convention booth represented Tieman's "Xenospora" webcomic.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Asselin |first1=Janelle |title=MRA Group Honey Badger Radio Removed From Calgary Expo |url=https://comicsalliance.com/honey-badger-radio-calgary-expo/ |website=[[ComicsAlliance]] |accessdate=9 September 2020 |language=en |date=April 17, 2015}}</ref> The [[GamerGate]] logo on a poster on their booth attracted negative comments on Twitter, because of its association with online harassment of women.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rumours of #GamerGate booth at Calgary Expo have fans up in arms |url=http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/1343383/rumours-of-gamergate-booth-at-calgary-expo-have-fans-up-in-arms/ |accessdate=9 September 2020 |work=[[Metro International]] |date=17 April 2015 |archiveurl=https://archive.is/sFC79 |archivedate=18 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Vancouver Observer">{{cite news |last1=Kresnyak |first1=Danny |title=Booth with GamerGate logo expelled from Calgary Comic Expo |url=https://www.vancouverobserver.com/news/booth-gamergate-logo-expelled-calgary-comic-expo |accessdate=9 September 2020 |work=[[The Vancouver Observer]] |date=April 20, 2015 |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Klepek |first1=Patrick |title=GamerGate Booth Kicked Out Of Canadian Comic Expo |url=https://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/04/gamergate-booth-kicked-out-of-canadian-comic-expo/ |website=[[Kotaku]] |accessdate=9 September 2020 |language=en-AU |date=18 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Marie Claire"/> On April 17, the Calgary Expo expelled the Honey Badger Brigade booth, and banned them from future events, stating the group was actively disregarding the Expo mandate of being a [[safe space|positive and safe event]] for everyone.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hunt |first1=Stephen |title=Booth evicted from Calgary Expo |url=https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/booth-evicted-from-calgary-expo |accessdate=9 September 2020 |work=[[Calgary Herald]] |date=April 17, 2015 |language=en-CA}}</ref>

Tieman and the Honey Badger Brigade sued the Calgary Expo and website [[The Mary Sue]], which wrote about the incident,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pantozzi |first1=Jill |title=Members of Gamergate Planned to "Infiltrate" Calgary Expo to Actively Disrupt Panels, Calgary Expo Has Evicted Them|url=https://www.themarysue.com/calgary-expo-gamergate-evicted/ |website=[[The Mary Sue]] |accessdate=9 September 2020 |date=April 17, 2015}}</ref> for expelling and defaming them. They crowdfunded $30,000 to finance the case, and hired controversial disbarred lawyer [[Harry Kopyto]] for paralegal advice.<ref>{{cite web |title=Honey Badger Brigade Legal Fund |url=http://www.feedthebadger.com/projects/honey-badger-brigade-legal-fund/ |website=Honey Badger Brigade |accessdate=9 September 2020 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170729102006/http://www.feedthebadger.com/projects/honey-badger-brigade-legal-fund/ |archivedate=2017-07-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=McKeon |first1=Lauren |title=How Gamergate Pioneered the Backlash Against Diversity |url=https://thewalrus.ca/how-gamergate-pioneered-the-backlash-against-diversity-in-technology/ |accessdate=9 September 2020 |work=[[The Walrus]] |date=11 September 2017}}</ref> They lost their case on August 1, 2018.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wallen |first1=Hannah |title=Badgers heading back to court again? |url=https://honeybadgerbrigade.com/2018/08/02/badgers-heading-back-to-court-again/ |website=Honey Badger Brigade |accessdate=9 September 2020 |date=August 2, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Reid |first1=Sheila Gunn |title=What happens when contract law is overwritten by a Twitter mob? (Guests: Honey Badgers Karen Straughan, Alison Tieman) |url=https://www.therebel.media/what_happens_when_contract_law_is_overwritten_by_a_twitter_mob_guests_honey_badgers_karen_straughan_alison_tieman |website=[[Rebel News]] |accessdate=9 September 2020 |language=en |date=September 12, 2018}}</ref>

== Other Honey Badgers ==

Besides those mentioned above, other prominent female men's rights activists that have been listed among the Honey Badgers include:

* Anna Cherry, a [[Sacramento]] [[Webcam model]], cosplayer and YouTuber who attended the 2015 Calgary Expo with the Honey Badger Brigade<ref name="MEL"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cherry |first1=Anna |title=JANUARY Canada HBR Trial TRAVEL VLOG #18 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO44JGCziUU |website=[[YouTube]] |accessdate=10 September 2020 |date=April 9, 2017}}</ref>
* Daisy Cousens, an Australian actress and conservative commentator, daughter of actor [[Peter Cousens]]<ref name="Australian">{{cite news |last1=Arndt |first1=Bettina |authorlink1=Bettina Arndt|title=Feminism under attack as women defend men's rights |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/feminism-under-attack-as-women-defend-mens-rights/news-story/85689a2a6b7a29b290113dda8f06debb |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=[[The Australian]] |date=June 5, 2017 |archiveurl=https://archive.is/P2uB6 |archivedate=4 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Cadzow |first1=Jane |title=With heroes including Donald Trump, meet conservatism's new, telegenic talking heads |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/with-heroes-including-trump-and-thatcher-meet-conservatisms-new-telegenic-talking-heads-20170405-gvdwmv.html |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=8 April 2017 |language=en}}</ref>
* Diana Davison, a Canadian [[YouTuber]], and founder of The Lighthouse Project, a non-profit that helps people falsely accused of sexual assault<ref name="Walrus"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Hune-Brown |first1=Nicholas |title=What do you call it when you don't consent to sex, but don't not consent? |url=https://torontolife.com/city/crime/the-case-that-put-the-metoo-movement-on-trial/ |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=[[Toronto Life]] |date=23 April 2018}}</ref><ref name="NCFM"/>
* Janice Fiamengo, a former English professor at the [[University of Ottawa]]<ref name="Walrus"/><ref name="Australian"/><ref name="Buchanan">{{cite web |last1=Buchanan |first1=Mike |authorlink1=Mike Buchanan (politician) |title=In praise of the brave female anti-feminists |url=https://conservativewoman.co.uk/in-praise-of-the-brave-female-anti-feminists/ |website=The Conservative Woman |accessdate=10 September 2020 |date=30 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Leck |first1=Sebastian |title=Gender discourse sparks tension |url=https://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2014-05-27/features/gender-discourse-sparks-tension/ |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=The [[Queen's University at Kingston|Queen's University]] Journal |date=May 27, 2014 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Crawford |first1=Blair |title=Protesters disrupt lecture by uOttawa 'anti-feminist' at Ottawa Public Library |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/protesters-disrupt-lecture-by-uottawa-anti-feminist-at-ottawa-public-library |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=[[Ottawa Citizen]] |date=March 27, 2018 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
* Elizabeth Hobson, an English activist for the [[Justice for Men and Boys]] political party<ref name="Bate">{{cite news |last1=Bate |first1=Marisa |title=Men's rights: meet the women who believe feminism has emasculated men |url=https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/mens-rights-653071 |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=[[Marie Claire]] |date=2 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Buchanan"/>
* Theryn Meyer, a Canadian-South African transgender woman<ref name="Walrus"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Bell |first1=Niko |title=Why is a trans woman leading a men's rights group? |url=https://www.dailyxtra.com/why-is-a-trans-woman-leading-a-mens-rights-group-69998 |accessdate=10 September 2020 |work=[[Xtra Magazine]] |date=January 21, 2016}}</ref>
* Tara J. Palmatier, "a Shrink 4 Men", a psychologist from the US West Coast specializing in counseling men in abusive relationships with women<ref name="Marie Claire"/><ref name="GQ"/><ref name="NCFM"/><ref name="MSNBC"/>
* [[Helen Smith (psychologist)|Helen Smith]], a forensic psychologist from Knoxville, Tennessee, and blogger for [[PJ Media]]<ref name="Mother Jones"/><ref name="NCFM"/>

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[[Category:Female critics of feminism]]