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waterbluenewworld asked:

wait who's tenafly and what has he/she done

tarajenkins:

dragondicks:

tenafly is a lady who likes to defend bronies in arguments, pretty much. My first interaction with her was during DWM, when she called a teenage girl a cunt and an attention whore for not liking rape jokes. She would often wade into discussions to defend rape jokes and to call anyone speaking against them silly new age feminists, not like real feminists from back in her day. I guess you can see more examples of her behaviour in this tag but w/e to be honest I try to avoid her because she’s really aggressive and creepy. Like, specifically searching out a teenage girl on websites to bully her despite being over 30 years old levels of creepy.

Bronies like to link to her in arguments because women very rarely agree with them so the fact that she agrees with their bigoted trash leads them to hold her up in a kind of “see?? this woman agrees with us, so we’re not sexist!!” kind of thing. Linking to her is kind of a godwin’s law thing at this point though, it’s like, if someone links to tenafly to prove their point then they’ve revealed that they only care about biased information that reinforces their own opinions so there’s no point continuing the discussion.

also don’t go to her blog because apparently she monetizes it and as hilarious as her rambling is it’s not worth actually supporting.

other people can add their own testimonies of her behaviour to this post if they want w/e

Ah, this old chestnut.

At the beginning of the Down With Molestia movement, she came to my dA because I used an MLP character I was well-known to blog for to say “threatening people with death and rape is wrong and completely NOT what MLP is about”. She put the “ass” in assumption by accusing “my kind of feminist” of not believing men can be abused, despite the fact my father and myself were both survivors of abuse at the hands of my mother, and the physical abuse  gave him long-term health problems until he died. She quickly tucked her tail in and ran from that debate, but there’s more.

She came to kriscastle’s dA on their pro-consent pic to call them a “straw feminist”. Comments had to be disabled. Kriscastle is a survivor of sexual abuse. The damn picture only said “Everypony deserves consent”.  “Everpony Deserves Consent”: OH MY GOD SO POLITICAL A MOUTHPIECE HOLY CRAP. In a fandom where these characters are too often used as a “mouthpiece” for noncon and abuse porn, and other such wildly OOC bullshit, Tenaflyviper attacked a survivor for daring to say everyone deserves consent, and will staunchly defend the pieces of shit that make pro-rape edits out of pro-survivor messages. Survivors only appear to count if they agree with her.

Since neither of us appear to be on her watch list, it seems she might just trawl dA looking for arguments. She certainly trawls on Derpibooru, where she made little lame hints that someone should check out her art on one of my pieces because she’s not a Big Mean Feminist like me.

Oh, hey, that “batshit insane psychopath” comment is new. Looks like she DOES go looking for arguments, that picture was put up ages ago. Name-calling is only okay if Tenaflyviper does it, btw. If it’s thrown back at her, she will say it’s “childish”.  I’d love to see her detailed diagnosis of that one, though, I had no idea she was a psychologist! She said she painted houses! And I never had even one session with her, damn that is pro!

Despite the fact that RAINN said there were “systematic barriers” to consider in the problem of rape, she took this as a cue to gloat there was no rape culture, despite RAINN President Scott Berkowitz’s own clarification  that yes, there are societal factors at work in the one assault every two minutes statistic. He deflected the term because he feels it may alienate allies. The debate is in the terminology, not whether or not the problem exists.

RAINN doesn’t think rape jokes are funny, either. And in the tossup of pony art being used to make rape jokes and rape pornography, or survivors of abuse using the ponies to promote consent, guess which side Tenaflyviper is on. She absolutely ignored this link every time I brought it up in my dealings with her.

RAINN has campaigned to remove pro-rape “joke” material. I have no doubt if RAINN were presented by the pro-rape edits of survivors and other artists work, and the stories behind the harassment, they would not be crying “muh free speech” like Tenaflyviper does.

RAINN lists misogyny under hate crimes. Tenaflyviper refuses to accept misogyny is a thing. RAINN is only quotable when convenient.

Speaking of convenience, even when one of her own followers called her out on biased links in one of her long “factual” rants, they were never clarified from less biased sources. It works for her, so it stands.

Speaking of convenience again, if you wade through 36 pages (!) of rants devoted to Pinkiepony, you will see this nugget, where she tries to dramatically accuse this girl of something that she did not even say. How do I know? I was the one who said it—well, I said something, just not as exaggerated as this person loves to make absolutely everything. And the point about Susan G. Komen and Pornhub still stands when /mlp/ remains a cesspool of noncon “jokes” and they had threads at the time devoted to speaking of raping a minor who dared say “rape jokes aren’t funny”. Huh, RAINN said that too. Suppose /mlp/ sent them hate mail and threats too? Or is a minor on the internet just easy pickings and confronting RAINN would take actual IRL conviction?

Ah, charity. My fiance and I are at the poverty line, but we’re still one of the biggest donors to our local food bank. Tenaflyviper dismissed that as “cute”….but then went on a foaming capslock rant how she’s at the poverty line but “gives of herself”, just not to charity. It’s only worthwhile if Tenaflyviper deems it so.

TL;DR: Every bit as rabid and hypocritical as any “social justice warrior” she writes about. I’m sure she’s great if you want to believe what she’s saying. Otherwise, I’d recommend side-eyeing all these double standards.