Despite
his running that blog for eight years, where he greets my web traffic
by demeaning us in all possible ways, vile images, calling me a
madwoman and Fool Zumaya and Renato, Child Star 72, he now calls our
response to his attacks there, an obsession with him. I respond by
saying that Tracy Terhune is not someone we like to think about, talk
about, know about and we are not obsessed with him... he is our
nightmare.
Tracy
Ryan Terhune has been our nightmare for years... no matter what we do
in regards to our work on Valentino, whatever we write, publish or
discover, his menacing presence is there to viciously and
aggressively attack us and our work... and do so under the title of
my book Affairs Valentino. Terhune throws his stones at us again and
again on his hate blog which he so proudly boasts is the first item
in MY and the book's Google search and I ask indeed, what kind of
person brags about something like that?
By
accusing us of being obsessed with him... is this not a gas-lighting
tour de force... considering what he has done to us on that blog
since 2012 and considering what he continues to do now by mocking us
for daring to respond. This when anyone would do the exact same in
our situation.
Cindy
Martin wrote about Terhune's bullying of us last spring, defined it
in detail, commenting how no one gets “wigged out” about a book
like Tracy Terhune has about Affairs Valentino. According to the
government website on bullying, he is conducting a text book example
of bullying on that blog. This because one of the identifying actions
of a bully/cyber bully is to open a designated blog where they defame
and torture their targeted victims and usually by accusing their
targets of doing exactly what they are doing. Terhune could write
the alphabet, share a few nursery rhymes on that blog and every
single word would be bullying because of the purpose of that blog.
I
ask him...why does he not post the link to his Affairs Valentino hate
blog on his Facebook group pages? If it is important enough for him
to post his hate there, then why does he not share it everywhere and
proudly? I say because he throws his stones and hides the hand by
deleting his most hateful posts, his disgusting images and hides that
bullying blog under the false pretense that he is the victim.
Tracy
Terhune does not have to like our books, but as someone who feigns
interest/authority in all things Valentino because of his collection,
he could acknowledge our efforts and the new discoveries we have
contributed and not actively work to sadistically ruin us. This seems
to contradict his envisioned role he works so feverishly (and
cruelly) to maintain in the Valentino world.
He
humble brags about not being an expert on Valentino but every time
there is a tiny question on the groups he controls, (according to
Cindy Martin both We Never Forget and Mad About the Boy) they call in
Tracy Terhune for his two cents.
As
long as he is broadcasting under my book's title that we are insane,
cruel, dottering, old people who are obsessed with him, I will
respond, respond, respond. I think anyone reading this can imagine
how little I am obsessed with him or this horrifying situation and
how little I enjoy responding. I ask what choice do we have but to
respond? If we do not... then we and our books are buried in
Terhune's sea of lies about us and our work.
So
why is Tracy Ryan Terhune now counting every time I mention his name
in reporting his actions as if his name is a four letter word...when
he has made very sure my name was destroyed and thoroughly and with
lies.
When
Tracy Terhune closes that wicked blog and returns that URL to me
courteously and ceases in his organizing and instigating his
“syndicate of haters” and disbands his “Campaign Against
Evelyn” as Cindy Martin called it... then perhaps he will see his
name less in print. Meanwhile, I will report on and respond to what
he does there to ensure that our truth is recorded and that this
story is told.
Logically,
as long as Tracy Terhune continues in this course of action, I have
little choice but to mention his name. But does not his list of my
mentioning his name obviously stand as proof of our being forced to
respond to his deplorable actions and motives? The longer his list
gets, the worse he looks. And every single day he runs that blog,
even a day without an update... it makes no difference... its very
presence and content is bullying.
I
ask him again to kindly do the gentlemanly thing and close the blog.
Us.
In December 2011 on our way home from Morocco
