The internet has regrettably forced me to come to Bonnie Blue’s defence after she was punched at a nightclub event over the weekend.
In the early hours of the morning, the blustering wind unleased its mighty pull around the city of Sheffield, as is conventional for the north of England. The new breed of Freshers, clinging to their knots of newly-formed companions like the overpriced WKDs they chugged in their flat earlier that evening, stumble into the nightclubs. Among them, an older woman stands. Her eyes – noticeably sullen, acutely outlined in dark liner – wander the room. Double-takes, then a resounding realisation follows. Then shock. She’s been punched in the jaw.
Such was how I imagine the evening ensued for Bonnie Blue. Bonnie Blue – a conspicuous figure who currently dominates discussions in the spheres of feminism, sex ideology and the ever-pertinent porn industry. The infamous femme fatale requires no introduction; her name alone carries a commanding weight. But the punch it packs isn’t as strong as the one she was dealt over the weekend.
Unpacking Bonnie Blue’s Assault
On 20th September, the 26-year-old Bonnie Blue was punched in the face by an angry female partygoer during Freshers’ Week. Reports confirm that she entered Onyx nightclub in Sheffield at around 1am, no doubt expecting a night of flirtatious fun and casual encounters with a collection of long-sought-after ‘fresh’ 18-year-olds. The night was advertised as the ‘wildest freshers night’ on her Bang Bus tour, a categorically grotesque venture where the adult star travels around universities to engage in and create sexually promiscuous content with the new cohort of barely-legal students. The tour itself is objectively disgusting. One university featured on the tour warned students to report any sightings of Bonnie Blue to security. What’s more, one MP for East Kilbride and Strathhaven even called on the University of Glasgow to ban her from the University’s campus altogether.
Frankly, this ‘tour’ – if one can justifiably call it that – reaches a new level of predatory behaviour. It has resurfaced the initial ethical concern that was levied at Channel 4’s show starring the rising pornstar, 1000 Men and Me, which ultimately fast-tracked her growing notoriety. The show documented her disturbing attempt to break a world record by sleeping with 1000 men in 12 hours. She was successful, by the way. In her entrepreneurial endeavour, she had sex with a grand total of 1057 men, to be specific. Not that the 57 makes a massive difference in relation to the grand slam number.
Bonnie Blue is no stranger to controversy
This is all to say that Bonnie Blue is no stranger to the spotlight. Negative press doesn’t seem to faze her as you would expect. Under the reprimanding judgment of others, she responds with apathy, bordering on boredom. In a podcast clip with GK Barry, despite her (very much foreseeably) receiving a slew of hate comments every day, Bonnie Blue claimed that this doesn’t affect her, dismissing all criticism as “irrelevant” and “not really my problem”.
Her straight-talking, rather cold, persona on camera naturally doesn’t warrant her a lot of sympathy. Unsuprisingly, it’s usually woman – myself included – who are most poised against her. From what I’ve seen, the anti-Blue discourse is entrenched in several pools of thought, stretching from the individualistic verdict that she selfishlessly “valories personal sexual agency above almost all else” to what I see as a more fundamental, and wholly more pernicious, fear about the message she is delicately drip-feeding to young men.
Let’s just say that I would not be the first to say that Bonnie Blue is responsible for setting back the course of feminism by a good few years.
Why women distance themselves from Bonnie Blue
So it’s no wonder that Bonnie Blue has found herself isolated from the support of other women online. Her altogether disdaining attempts to stifle women’s criticism of her – by reducing her character assassination to jealousy, engendered by the fact that other women clandestinely know that “their partner would like to cheat on them with me” – does little to make her more palatable. Assuredly, the majority of women see her actions as reprobative, shameful and poignantly exploitative. And I too would fit my personal assessment of her character within this category.
Condemning violence without excuse
However, it should be obvious that, regardless of someone’s moral assessment of Bonnie Blue’s character, what happened to her at that nightclub was categorically and indefensibly wrong. There was no justification for it. At all.
However loathsome or repulsive you find her content, and no matter how low your opinion of her ‘Bang Bus’ tour is, what happened to her at that nightclub was objectively wrong. And this is something that we must all be able to admit. Not cry her a river, not send her flowers. We don’t need to send her a loving message full of warm wishes and a speedy recovery on Instagram. But we need to be able to admit that what happened to her was wrong. And we need to say that without any excuses or justification.
And from what I’ve seen, some people are having a hard time doing that.
In X post announcing the news, the replies are full of comments like “We’re healing”, “I will pay the puncher” and “Wish it was me”. What’s particularly sad is that a lot of these comments are made by women. Women who, no doubt, consider themselves as feminists in their daily lives.
There are women out there who are actively celebrating the fact that Bonnie Blue was struck, dubbing it 2025’s greatest “reality hit” and commending the attacker who was detained at the scene by the South Yorkshire Police.
The key takeaway
Why is it that all the women who were so quick to condemn Bonnie Blue for “pushing back feminism” are now revelling gleefully in the news that another woman was publicly and physically assaulted?
And this is the key thing that everyone is missing: Bonnie Blue is still a woman. Regardless of whatever you may think about her and her ideas, what happened to her that night was indisputably wrong. She was punched in the face. Another woman assaulted her. Bonnie Blue went outside the comfort of her own home, and another woman felt so much hate for her that, in her head, the only way to expel her anger was to imprint her hand across another woman’s face.
Bonnie Blue is a complicated figure… but not deserving of physical violence
Beneath the villain guise, Bonnie Blue is still a woman. A person. A self-deluded person, perhaps with deeper personal struggles, but a woman nonetheless. The sense of mob-mentality here is overwhelming; then again, it’s unequivocally easier to pin all your frustrations on one woman than on the culture which produced her. And it baffles me that the same people who call Bonnie Blue’s behaviour “sick”, demanding she get immediate professional help, can’t help but crack a smug smirk when that same person is publicly humiliated.
What happened to Bonnie Blue at that nightclub did cross a line. Restraining orders and student-focused public appeals are one thing; senseless violence, quite another.
Before this happened, I always thought I’d be the last one to defend Bonnie Blue on anything. I still morally abhor virtually all of her content; the way this public figure has single-handedly caused irreconcilable damage to the idealisation and repackaging of the sex work industry is, and always will be, deplorable. So as much as I dislike this persona she has curated and everything she stands for, I hate the violence she endured more.
