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My “social justice warrior” training began young, when I was around ten or eleven. I wrote a lot of letters to both our major newspapers and also wrote our state governor about a catchphrase used by the media to describe delinquent parents at that time, “deadbeat dads”. I wanted them to stop using…
Worth the read.
Death threats, rape threats, etc are all to familiar to people who even remotely agree with this it seems. Weapon of choice is fear.
Making you fear you are wrong, you are alone, and you should be quiet. Its terrifying to have someone threaten you over the opinion…you don’t like rape jokes. Its been a long time since I visited that certain debilitating fear over anything, and the fact its over THAT is absurd.
One of the most powerful things I’ve found though is the knowledge “No, you aren’t alone. There are people who will support you, who’ve had similar experiences as you.”
Cause as loud as that bad side can be, there’s plenty of people who are just scared to say anything. They sometimes just need that voice to say the right thing, as Tara said.
I'm shocked TenaFlyViper isn't doing her usual "oh my god guys these are such terrible attention whore feminists, I'm not like THEM--I won't call you out on terrible behavior. You should appreciate MY art! Please? Please look at my art, I linked it and everything! PLEASE APPRECIATE ME."
“I’m not like this other girl who is a teenager a slutty attention whore, I just want to be one of the guys! Ha ha, I’m totally ok with your misogynistic shit because I know it’s about other women, not me! Please accept me, guys!”
I love how in one of those screenshots she accuses DWM supporters of sending death threats to a teenage boy. Nothing to say about the grown men sending porn, viruses, and threats to a teenage girl to try to convince her that their rape jokes “aren’t harmful”? Nothing to say about them stealing money from a teenage girl, and sharing her actual address amongst each other? Hmm.
Vent your aggression and bitterness over other people enjoying something that you don’t personally understand or are interested in!
You’ll become instantly surrounded and beloved by others with the same narrow-minded need to separate…
You say you’re not popular enough? You say you don’t get enough attention? Well, have I got the solution for you!
Whine about “bronies”!
Express your distaste over rape being a joke with victims as the punchline in a favorite fandom!
You’ll be the life of the pity party!
People will agree with you because maybe….just maybe….they have their own opinion that it’s fucked up too! Except no, let’s just call them a “pity party”! Generalizations are only bad when Tenaflyviper’s not doing it!
Vent your aggression and bitterness over other people enjoying something that you don’t personally understand or are interested in!
Express your distaste over assault being a joke with victims as the punchline because maybe either they have personal experience or care for someone who does!
You’ll become instantly surrounded and beloved by others with the same narrow-minded need to separate other human beings into categories and unwarranted stereotypes!
Dehumanizing and classifying others based on limited evidence and/or extreme minority behavior will put your personal insecurities on display in such a grandiose manner that you’ll have self-absorbed teenage girls and sexually-insecure college-age guys flocking to worship at your feet!
It can’t possibly be because glorifying abuse is disgusting! It’s about OUR insecurities? Hey, remember that time you called a survivor an idiot and a straw feminist because she opposed Molestia? Hilarious! Also, by all means, generalize some more, because only the sexually-insecure and self-absorbed would be squicked by rape jokes! Remember, it’s only generalization if SOMEONE ELSE does it!
Don’t view groups of people as being comprised of individuals from all walks of life, just the same as any other human beings you might encounter in your daily life! Limit your view of them to only the negative traits that you’ve managed to cherry pick from biased and questionable sources! Sensationalism - that’s what sells!
Hentai obviously proves fiction is not a symptom of real life attitudes because they have the less reported rapes than the US! Never mind the sex slavery and women’s only trains to try to curb horrifyingly prevalent assaults, it’s the numbers that count, and that’s all I’m quoting! /mlp/ are still great people even though they dox a minor and laugh as they draw rape porn of her OC!
Who needs human empathy as long as you’re pop-pop-popular?
Who needs human empathy when you can strangely not ignore yet another opinion as you tell others to ignore what bothers them?
Taking valuable time out of your life to mindlessly spread your own iniquitous resentment against a single fan base that has no justifiable impact on your existence is totally cool!
It’s totally cool to only address the thoughts of survivors on one side! The others are “idiots” and “straw feminists” and should not feel comfortable in the fandom! Who cares if consensual relationships can be funny? It’s gotta be rape, and we gotta nudge-nudge wink-wink that oh-so-funny rapist!
And hey - you can even make yourself feel important by taking that same middle-school behavior, and disguising it as “activism”!
And hey! Guess what? Your bullshit that would hurt people in real life also hurts them when they’re typing on a computer! Go figure! I wonder why the other survivors of abuse that thanked me for speaking out on this shit don’t feel safe in this internet space. Hm!.
Someone needs to go back to school, indeed.Get off your high horse, lady. You’re as much of a hypocrite as ANYONE you try to single out in this argument, including the minor you relentlessly criticize.
I’m astounded that you still expect anyone to take you seriously.
If you and your ilk spent even a fraction of the time you use to not only complain on your blogs to the same handful of people (as well as create drawings that have zero impact on anyone’s lives) to actually do something that mattered to real victims, maybe “rape culture” wouldn’t have already, sadly, been turned into a complete and utter joke.
I like how you only choose to address anything in context of the real world when you can’t cope with being called out on being completely useless to a legitimate cause.
I’m sure victims everywhere in the world are totally benefitting from you focusing your rage on a minority of extremists in a single fan base. Very helpful. Really making a difference in the world.
Let me know when you’ve done anything anyone besides yourself can be grateful for.
Oh, remember that time you said I didn’t read your rants thoroughly? Let me repeat: since my time with my Batman blog and Cupidite, I have had fellow survivors of abuse and survivors of sexual assault thank me for speaking out on this because the fandom was so unwelcoming. THEY matter. Even if it had only been one or two people, THEY MATTER. Or do you just deem them “idiots” as well, like you did Kriscastle, because they don’t see it your way?
How laughable you waste your time railing against a minor with your art, while mine has actually made some feel less isolated among the el-oh-el edgy rape jokes.
You made a bunch of people who baited and bullied a minor feel big. Go you. And if you don’t “take me seriously”, as you generalize and use big words to say absolutely jack, as you selectively mock survivors that don’t agree with you, thank goodness. It means I’m doing something right.
By the by, have you seen us lately when we make our Food Bank donations? 115 pounds once, 85 another, 155 another, this month’s is in the car for dropoff. What’s that? You didn’t research again? Oh darn.
Only time I don’t take Tara seriously is when she’s nerding out over something so guess you ARE generalizing.
Also helping a victim -matters-. Even if its just making them comfortable. Even if its just a simple laugh. Even if its just one.
