I came across Jenn Li on Twitter today. A link to her disturbing article was tweeted by Caroline Criado Perez and the Eaves Charity. I was so shocked by what I read that I immediately wanted to help spread the word.
So here’s the story in brief. Julien Blanc is a self-styled ‘dating advice’ consultant who works for Real Social Dynamics. He has a website called PimpingMyGame which, by its name alone, gives you some sort of insight into what he does. He basically generates “advice” if you can call it that, on how to abuse women. His ‘tips’ include racially abusing women and putting his hand around their throat in what he has termed #ChokingGirlsAroundtheWorld. All this is meant to subdue women so that men can get what they want out of them – sexual gratification.
Now as someone who has been the victim of this type of behaviour I cannot stress how damaging this is. As a naive teenager I have had grown men grab my buttocks, try to get their hands inbetween my legs and expose themselves to me. As a teenager I had no confidence whatsoever and was easily intimidated, particularly by men. I weighed 7 stone and looked as though you could break me if you breathed too close to me. Not that this put anyone off. I was left confused and upset by the harassment I received and blamed myself for getting myself into that predicament in the first place (one time I was trying to get a drink at the bar – maybe I stood too close to the men? Another time a taxi driver tried to assault me on my way home – maybe I’d had too much to drink?) It just served to intensify my fear of men and made me more vulnerable and less confident. I would wear baggy clothes to hide my figure. I would refuse to put on make-up – all of this was a sign that I blamed myself in some way for the behaviour of predatory men. I thought that if I made myself look unattractive then I would not get any unwanted attention.
This kind of vile behaviour cannot go unchallenged. What Julien Blanc is doing is trying to convince himself and his followers that to abuse women is somehow acceptable and even fun. They target vulnerable women – such as I was – because they know that they will get away with it; that the girls and women will be too scared and too shocked to challenge them.
But one woman is challenging them. Jenn Li has suffered abuse from trolls because of her campaign to #TakeDownJulienBlanc. So far she has managed to successfully stop some of his events being hosted (events where he unbelievably ‘trains’ other men to become sexual predators just like him – their mothers must be so proud!) and some of his videos have been taken down. She’s now started a petition http://chn.ge/1xbXtDI and hopes to stop his recent plans to travel to Tokyo as he has made it quite clear that Asian women will be targeted with stunts such as grabbing their heads and thrusting them towards his dick whilst yelling “Pikachu”.
No girl or woman should be subjected to such vile abuse and no girl deserves to suffer the lasting consequences of such abuse whilst Julien and his followers laugh it off as a bit of fun.
Let’s help stop this man, share the link, spread the word and name and shame Julien Blanc – a pathetic sexual predator.
So here’s the story in brief. Julien Blanc is a self-styled ‘dating advice’ consultant who works for Real Social Dynamics. He has a website called PimpingMyGame which, by its name alone, gives you some sort of insight into what he does. He basically generates “advice” if you can call it that, on how to abuse women. His ‘tips’ include racially abusing women and putting his hand around their throat in what he has termed #ChokingGirlsAroundtheWorld. All this is meant to subdue women so that men can get what they want out of them – sexual gratification.
Now as someone who has been the victim of this type of behaviour I cannot stress how damaging this is. As a naive teenager I have had grown men grab my buttocks, try to get their hands inbetween my legs and expose themselves to me. As a teenager I had no confidence whatsoever and was easily intimidated, particularly by men. I weighed 7 stone and looked as though you could break me if you breathed too close to me. Not that this put anyone off. I was left confused and upset by the harassment I received and blamed myself for getting myself into that predicament in the first place (one time I was trying to get a drink at the bar – maybe I stood too close to the men? Another time a taxi driver tried to assault me on my way home – maybe I’d had too much to drink?) It just served to intensify my fear of men and made me more vulnerable and less confident. I would wear baggy clothes to hide my figure. I would refuse to put on make-up – all of this was a sign that I blamed myself in some way for the behaviour of predatory men. I thought that if I made myself look unattractive then I would not get any unwanted attention.
This kind of vile behaviour cannot go unchallenged. What Julien Blanc is doing is trying to convince himself and his followers that to abuse women is somehow acceptable and even fun. They target vulnerable women – such as I was – because they know that they will get away with it; that the girls and women will be too scared and too shocked to challenge them.
But one woman is challenging them. Jenn Li has suffered abuse from trolls because of her campaign to #TakeDownJulienBlanc. So far she has managed to successfully stop some of his events being hosted (events where he unbelievably ‘trains’ other men to become sexual predators just like him – their mothers must be so proud!) and some of his videos have been taken down. She’s now started a petition http://chn.ge/1xbXtDI and hopes to stop his recent plans to travel to Tokyo as he has made it quite clear that Asian women will be targeted with stunts such as grabbing their heads and thrusting them towards his dick whilst yelling “Pikachu”.
No girl or woman should be subjected to such vile abuse and no girl deserves to suffer the lasting consequences of such abuse whilst Julien and his followers laugh it off as a bit of fun.
Let’s help stop this man, share the link, spread the word and name and shame Julien Blanc – a pathetic sexual predator.