Hmm. There both feels like a lot to say and also not much. I understand Luka's worry about the personal/historical. I don't want to go down that path either, though there is a lot that could be said. Dominic's tone I just can't stand tbh. It's always this priestly, judgemental, patronising crap, telling me what I supposedly think, what I've supposedly done. It don't get the point of it, other than to make him feel better and happy about telling women what they think. I like what stelfox says. I think a lot of people have lied and exaggerated and projected all over the place about all this. People (not here, mainly) have posted crazy and untrue things. It's hard not to get fucked up about it (as in it's hard not to get sucked into other people's paranoia and krankiness), and it's hard to see where there might be a better conversation. I just keep thinking of the park, I want to get off the internet and go back to being a disagreeable bastard with people in person. Fifteen people or so turned up to protest me in Berlin the other day at an event on 'cancel culture'. I went outside to speak to them - some of them spoke to me, some of them moved away. They had a little leaflet with a voodoo veve on the front (apparently Maman Brigitte). It said 'EVIL QUEER COMMIES SAY NO PLATFORM FOR EDGELORDS AND EDGELADIES' and 'FASCISTS ARE FRIGHTENED CONFORMISTS AND FRIGHTENED CONFORMISTS ARE FASCISTS' and 'DOWN WITH THE EDGY ESTABLISHMENT' and 'DOWN WITH THE EDGY HAND OF THE STATE'. Inside was a mix of claims, including having a go at my laugh on a video of Daniel reading a poem: 'Nina laughs strangely in the background. The laughter is disturbing.'
I sort of feel like something has taken a wrong turn. You could say it was me who had, but I'm not so sure.