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Several weeks ago, antifeminist attention-seeker and Twitter scofflaw Andrea Hardie — perhaps better known under her aliases Janet Bloomfield and JudgyBitch — launched a crusade of sorts against female suffrage.

Though Hardie seems to believe most of the nonsense she regularly spews, her campaign is so patently a publicity stunt that few people have even bothered to respond to it. Sure, I wrote a post on it, but then again that’s sort of my job.

On Twitter — which she has not-so-sneakily returned to under her real name after being banned for targeted harassment — Hardie has been trying to make the hashtag #WhyWomenShouldNotVote happen.

It’s not going to happen. Even with the presidential primaries dominating the news in the US, and talk of politics and voting in the air, Hardie’s hashtag steadfastly refuses to trend. Indeed, she seems to be writing half the tweets herself.

With millions of Americans in 12 states going to the polls today to vote in the Super Tuesday primaries. I thought I’d take a look at what Hardie has been saying to try to convince the world that half of these voters shouldn’t be voting at all.

So here are The 19 Dumbest Reasons Andrea Hardie Thinks Women Shouldn’t be Allowed to Vote. Prepare yourself for internalized misogyny, blatant racism and xenophobia, rape jokes, and a lot of truly bizarre logic. And I think I might have caught a whiff of desperation as well.

1) Because women are inferior to, and envious of, men

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/704110796196945920

2) Because (white) women are wreckers, not builders

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/703220649171537920

3) Because western women will need men to protect them from the refugees they’ve welcomed into their countries

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/704498299160666113

4) Because women don’t want to shoot refugees

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/704308224909037569

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/703950068672569344

5) Because a Muslim woman in Moscow beheaded a child

Despite supporting the mass murder of migrants, Hardie believes that a horrific murder carried out by an Uzbecki woman in Moscow is an indication that all migrants should be excluded from “Western” countries. Oh, and the fact that women generally disagree with her on this means that they shouldn’t vote.

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/704296245846790145

Huh. Less than two weeks ago, an Uber driver went on a shooting spree in and around Kalamazoo, Michigan, killing six and seriously injuring two others. The alleged shooter: a white, native-born man. Should we therefore deport all white, native-born men from the US? And should we ban everyone who doesn’t agree with this draconian solution from voting?

6) Because a black guy in France slapped a woman who turned down his sexual advances

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/703254696132222981

It seems a little curious that Hardie is getting so worked up about the sexual misbehavior of the man in question.

Generally speaking, her response to allegations of sexual violence, no matter how convincing the evidence, is to blame the victims. She is, after all, the woman whose response after two of the Steubenville rapists had been found guilty was to spew forth an angry tirade attacking the victim as “a stupid, drunk, helmet-chasing whore.”

Oh, and she also argued that Jimmy Savile’s underage victims were the ones exploiting him.

Perhaps Hardie’s real objection to the alleged refugee mentioned in her Tweet was not the violence he directed at a woman but, you know, the fact that he’s a Muslim refugee?

Or at least that she thinks he is? The video in question has been making the rounds on assorted right-wing websites catering to immigrant haters and other racists, but none of them link to any news stories about the actual incident. One poster on Reddit says it’s actually a video of an incident that took place in France in 2010. Beyond that I could find no info about the woman or the men who assaulted her.

7) Because some women wear burkas

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/704098451232047104

8) Because native-born Norwegian men don’t commit any rapes, at least if you ignore all the rapes they do commit

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/702628912564723712

The police officer making this claim is only talking about literal stranger-in-the-bushes outdoor rapes, not the rapes in which the rapist and victim know one another. That is, most rapes, which apparently aren’t rapes to Hardie.

9) Because some black men who might possibly have been raised by single mothers are criminals

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/703304277146669056

10) Because women turned Gawker into a pussy-beggar?

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/704106096437420032

11) Because women don’t need to be able to vote in order to influence politics

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/703251681560109060

This is a bit of a weird argument for her to make, given that all of her reasons that women shouldn’t vote would also seem to apply to women having any influence over politics.

12) Because women want to be cattle

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/701766288050417666

13) Because the suffragettes didn’t suffer enough

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/702909675516329984

14) Because of the actions of fictional women on the show “Single Ladies”

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/701836204275322881

15) Because most women expect men to ask them out

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/701830281519562752

16) Because mothers worry when their sons go to war

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/702608508068438018

17) Because Twitter is asking Anita Sarkeesian for advice on how to design effective tools against harassment

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/701861916617138177

18) Because she thinks the author of a book about rape isn’t hot enough to be raped

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/702496789841186816

Harding is in fact a rape survivor.

19) Because if women have choices they ruin everything

https://twitter.com/AndreaHardie/status/702541768680726529

Well, that’s enough of that.

Paul McCartney’s suffragette-mentioning song “Jet” doesn’t make much more sense than Hardie’s tweets, but it’s vastly more entertaining. So here it is.

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