This post is about the primmest of trolls, Aoife Assumpta Hart. Their conduct has been atrocious, they have severed relationships with friends who were nothing but supportive, they have burned bridges it was assumed they worked on in good faith, and they have utterly embarrassed themselves by showing a lack of regard for other people, and for the politics they claimed to have a genuine interest in. Don’t trust Aoife. Don’t trust someone who finds it so easy to switch from one political movement to another whenever it seems most convenient to their swollen ego. Their self-description seems innocent enough, I suppose.

Let’s take a little stroll through some Aoife history.

http://aoifeschatology.com/2014/06/26/pennyred-and-the-interlopers-dilemma/

So we see a post from late June, 2014, Aoife is still using the word ‘cis’ and speaking with a mansplainy, transgenderful voice, giving Penny Red a good talking-down-to from a Real Trans Perspective.

http://aoifeschatology.com/2014/08/07/hiatus-from-the-comitatus-on-divergence-and-damnation-in-trans-blogging/

Like a month-and-a-half later, Aoife is drawing a connection between themselves and radical feminists, and also decrying the usage of “TERF,” which is a slur against women. Remember: Aoife from this point on regarded “TERF” as a slur.

http://aoifeschatology.com/2014/09/11/raw-policy-notes-why-the-hating-on-aoife/

Oh! They’re calling themselves a radical feminist at this point…while also using their choice to transition and change legal sex marker as somehow a justification for invading female safe spaces. Well, give it a couple months and maybe after more time absorbing the words of radfem women, they’ll see how inappropriate it is for a man to just call themselves a radfem, especially one who is entering female safe spaces.

http://aoifeschatology.com/2014/09/07/very-brief-update/

Right, almost forgot! They were teaching a course on radical feminism at the time. Well, they must have been studying it for a while, maybe they won’t fuck it up too badly. Wait, what’s this? A post just one month prior to teaching radfem, Aoife describes their understanding of the ideology thusly:

http://aoifeschatology.com/2014/08/03/the-goldberg-variations-trans-exclusion-and-old-school-dialectics/

I’m just a man, and maybe I’m confused, but I was almost positive that being female had something to do with “the symbolic order of caste structures” rather than being based on femininity…which actually sounds like something Julia Serano would say. Regardless of what Aoife meant, this is a shitty attempt at describing an ideology they started teaching a month later!

And seriously…”comparing blueprints”…”dossing, chatting”…these women sound like empty characters in some spy fantasy, a “the world is out to get me” epic novel. Radfems silenced just for trying to meet up? What’s a transwoman gotta do to get some of that juicy underdog idealization?

Thanks for clarifying, Aoife! Agreed, transgenderism is simply too “kewl” now. Everyone’s doing TG, but not as many are doing this radfem thing. Sounds edgy and exciting! Have you heard women and sometimes men get harassed just for expressing ideas sympathetic to radical feminist thought? The opportunities for retweets of vicious attacks against you are endless. Those transgenderists keep claiming to be the most oppressed, but no, you’ll show them just how special you are, how despite the constant harassment, you just dust yourself off and somehow manage to keep going.

Oh, goodness…look what I came across. This couldn’t be Aoife misgendering and poorly attempting to humiliate a fellow transling, could it?

Maybe Aoife didn’t have a problem using these pictures because they were posted publicly. That couldn’t be termed harassment, right? When one woman decided to share some public photos of Aoife pre-transition (https://twitter.com/ActualDykez/status/705504408436477952), it definitely counted as abuse in Aoife’s mind. Maybe Aoife was just fed up having to answer annoying questions such as “why do you think you, a man, are qualified to teach radical feminism?” and, “how are you able to attack other transwomen when you yourself perform a parody of female oppression and enter female safe spaces?” and, “how does what you’re doing *not* qualify as being disruptive to feminism?” and more recently, “why are you calling women “TERFS” and being a total prick?”

Oh, I see why. Someone said words about Aoife that Aoife didn’t like.

I’m not sure how “pornified parody” qualifies as obscenely vulgar to someone who just wrote “gets shit on with TERFy slurry,” but okay. I’m kind of curious what those “other contexts” are, and what those real repercussions would be. Mostly just sounds like a loquacious version of “if it wasn’t for blahblah-excuse-blah, I’d totally kick your ass, bro.” Also gotta love the way Aoife finishes this up with a complete disavowal of any possible activist contribution from the people who dared have an opinion. Of course, this penultimate statement just leads into a disavowal of the ideologies Aoife had been dabbling in since the summer of 2014. Because it’s totally normal to sever relationships and do a 180* ethically and politically, all because of something a person said to you that you thought was mean.

This seems a bit dramatic. Also confusing, since Aoife claims to not be speaking for ‘it,’ while also calling it utopian and canonical? Maybe this just goes over my simple head - Aoife is, after all, a (former) academic.

This isn’t grandiose whatsoever. Nope, Aoife was just trying to “bridge the divide,” be the man-hero who swoops in to rescue the radfems and translings from eternal ideological conflict. But alas, Aoife was unable to accomplish this feat, which of course means that the feat itself is impossible. Aoife tried. Aoife failed. Everyone can go home now. Also, apparently, everyone can just fuck off, too.

It may seem to you, Aoife, that women interested in gender abolition do nothing all day but yell at you, but this is simply a delusion. It’s incredibly insulting to the people who mistook you for someone whose ethics were genuine. Also…Waterloo? Wtf, how much of an ass can you possibly be?

Oh, you actually CAN be more of an ass. Kudos for avoiding any reference to male genitalia, but you literally stated that a woman who was “mean” to you just needs a good fucking. Bet you got some shit for that tweet!

Alternately, you could just lock your account and block anyone “mean,” i.e. people who might take issue with the things you’re writing. Such as calling women “TERFS,” among other things. But who is this security contingent?

Laurelai Bailey. Totally harmless character. Aside from the long history of hacking, FBI involvement, and oh…being accused by multiple women of sexual assault/rape. The internet is a big place, but there’s plenty to find on Laurelai. Here’s just a glimpse:

Well, there’s only that ONE person, and she’s lying. Who wouldn’t believe Laurelai, I mean c’mon, men accused of rape never lie about that shit, and we all know women lie ALL the time, right? C’mon bro, right? Aoife seems untroubled by these accusations, although maybe their silence is profitable for some reason.

Not an implied threat whatsoever. Move along, nothing to see here. Unless you fuck with Aoife. Then we enter into those “other contexts” where “there would be real repercussions.” Like real doxing, not the pretend kind that just involves giving more visibility to pictures that are already public.

To me, it seems like Aoife is doing a lot of projecting.

Absolutely no projecting going on here.

DEFINITELY no projection here, either. Everyone knows the best way to respond to accusations of being a fetishist is to accuse influential radical feminist women of also being fetishists. More specifically, radfem women whose ideas Aoife actually taught at a college level. That’ll show em!

But what could Aoife possible gain from all this? What motivates them, as a person? It certainly isn’t any specific ideology or sense of ethics. What could it be?

Of course! The male dream - to be loved by women who don’t question you. Is that too much to ask? Maybe a few extra followers or hits on the ol’ blog?

And to see, as a finale, an example of some pretty fucked-up heights in prim trolling: